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General Hollanek: Jesus! You have got to be shitting me! You just shot a Javelin at a **** car! That's an $80,000 piece of ordnance! Can any of you geniuses tell me the Kelley Blue Book value of a 1989 Toyota pickup?
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General Hollanek: So while you're outside the wire with my men, you will in no way distract them, understood?
Kim Baker: Are you asking me not to sleep with your soldiers?
General Hollanek: No, not "soldiers". Marines. You're not here to sleep with or perform jobs of any type on my Marines.
Kim Baker: Are you asking me not to sleep with your soldiers?
General Hollanek: No, not "soldiers". Marines. You're not here to sleep with or perform jobs of any type on my Marines.
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Kim Baker: Okay. Well, I'm covering the girls' school in Kandahar that was firebombed and I'm wondering if you could give me something, on background, just about the security situation here and the state of the war in general.
General Hollanek: Yeah, I can give you something: This war is like **** a gorilla. You keep going till the gorilla wants to stop.
Kim Baker: I think I can paraphrase that.
General Hollanek: Knock yourself out.
General Hollanek: Yeah, I can give you something: This war is like **** a gorilla. You keep going till the gorilla wants to stop.
Kim Baker: I think I can paraphrase that.
General Hollanek: Knock yourself out.
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Specialist Coughlin: I mean, there's only so much any of us have any control of, good or bad. If you didn't learn that in Afghanistan, you were not paying attention.
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Specialist Coughlin: You embrace the suck, you move the **** forward.