“Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep, or movin' too...” – Captain Benjamin L. Willard, Apocalypse Now ... Movie Quotes Database

Captain Benjamin L. Willard Martin Sheen

Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep, or movin' too fast. His idea of R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat. He had only two ways home: death or victory.

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Captain Benjamin L. Willard Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole ****in' program. Captain Benjamin L. Willard They were gonna make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their ****in' army anymore. Captain Benjamin L. Willard Everybody wanted me to do it, him most of all. I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away. He just wanted to go out like a soldier, standing up, not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade. Even the jungle wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway.