“Willard: My mission is to make it up into Cambodia. There's a Green...”

Willard

My mission is to make it up into Cambodia. There's a Green Beret Colonel up there who's gone insane. I'm supposed to kill him.

Chef

That's **** typical! Shit. ****in' Vietnam mission! I'm short and we gotta go up there so you can kill one of our own guys? That's ****in' great! That's just ****in' great, man. Shit. That's ****in'... crazy! I thought you were going in there to blow up a bridge, or, some **** railroad tracks or somethin'.

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Captain Benjamin L. Willard Martin Sheen More Willard quotes →

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