good-bye, Sergeant.
Man, she sure is one, ain't she?
One what?
One woman.
I've seen better.
Karen?
-Sorry I'm late.
-It doesn't matter.
I got tied up with General Slater.
I bumped into him in the Officers' Club.
Yeah? What did the General have to say?
Success, he said.
Success in war, success in peacetime.
Not a word about my promotion.
Sometimes I think the old man's
just waiting to ship me down.
Less time buttering generals
and more with your company...
-...maybe you'd get that promotion.
-The company takes care of itself.
I went over there today looking for you.
I had some business to attend to
at Kaneohe.
That was all right, wasn't it?
Of course.
I've no right to inquire into your actions.
That was our agreement.
Then why bring it up?
Because I wanted you to know I'm not
as stupid as you maintain all women are.
Now, just what does that mean?
What are you accusing me of now?
Of nothing.
It's no longer my business
how many women you go out with.
But I wish you could just be honest
about it once.
No reason I should try to hide anything,
is there...
...the way things are between us now?
What right have you
to always be accusing me?
What right?
Are you going back to that again?
How long will it be, I wonder,
before I'm allowed to live that down?
How many times must I say
it was an accident?
Please, Dana.
I'm going to bed.
Please get out of my bedroom.
Captain Holmes says you don't want
to come out and fight for us.
That's right.
We thought we'd buy you a beer
and talk it over.
We're the company boxers.
I figured.
What I wouldn't give to have this guy
in a corner poolroom in my hometown!
If you box as good as you used to,
we'd be a cinch this year.
You ain't forget, division champs
get ten-day furloughs, did you, son?
I'm Ike Galovitch.
Platoon guide of your platoon.
And don't think
you're a tough guy, Prewitt.
You no talk now, but out in the field
with us you sing different song.
He don't have to fight if he don't want
without being kicked around.
We're playing pool. Take off.
-You want busted head, Maggio?
-No.
Then keep your big nose out altogether.
Training starts next week.
Pick up your stuff--
Look, I told Holmes and I'm telling you...
...I ain't fighting. I quit fighting!
You guys want to put the screws on,
go right ahead.
I can take anything you can dish out.
Okay, Prewitt.
Thanks.
I just hate to see a good guy
get it in the gut.
You'd better get used to it, kid.
You'll probably see a lot of it
before you die.
You don't scare easy, do you, Prewitt?
You know anything in Army regulation
says I got to box?
Every boxer in this outfit's a non-com.
I guess you've never seen
a bunch of them get together...
...and give a man ''The Treatment.''
What do you mean ''chick''? She's 45.
She's still too young for you.
I'm a better man than you any day
and don't forget it.
I won't forget it.
What's the deal with him, anyway?
With Warden. I don't figure him.
Warden?
He ain't like the others.
He'll make it tough on you.
But he'll draw himself a line he thinks fair,
and he won't come over it.
You don't see many top kicks
like him no more.
He was with the 15th in Shanghai
when they saw their action.
I heard about it
down in the Philippines, even.
All I know is,
he's the best soldier I ever saw.
Count cadence, count!
One, two, three, four.
Prewitt! Get in step!
Hut! Hut!
Prewitt, this is a drill, not a picnic!
Get in step!
Hut! Hut! Hut!
Halt!
Left face!
Prewitt! One step forward. March!
You march like a drunken gooney bird.
I got to teach you how to drill. Stay here.
Platoon, dismissed!
Detail, right face!
Detail, forward march!
Half left march!
Half right march!
Assemble your weapons.
All right, start.
A rifle's your best friend.
In the case it jams in combat,
could mean life or death.
You got to learn to strip them down
and put them back together, blindfolded.
Your rear sight's way off!
You'd be 50