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 feet off-target at 300 yards.
That's what happens when a soldier
don't know how to assemble his rifle.
Seven laps around the track, double time.
Keep the rifle at high port!
Wide open, huh, Prewitt?
Maybe seven more laps
will teach you to watch yourself.
Are you crazy? I saw what you did.
Nothing but trouble.
Better keep your mind off her.
What do you wanna do,
wind up in Leavenworth?
I won't be back in time to take retreat.
Or reveille, either.
All work and no play, Sergeant.
All you do is sit around
sweating over papers.
There are other things in the world
beside work.
You ought to get out
more yourself, Warden.
I've been considering it.
Well, I'm going.
I'm leaving it in your care, Sergeant.
It'll be here when you get back, sir.
Well, if it isn't Sergeant Warden.
You'd better step inside or you'll get wet.
I am wet.
If you're looking for the Captain,
he isn't here.
And if I'm not looking for him?
He still isn't here.
I'm looking for him.
You know where he is?
I haven't the slightest idea.
Perhaps he's in town on business.
That's the way you put it
the other day, isn't it?
I got some papers
it's important for him to sign.
I'll try phoning him at the club.
-Maybe he's there.
-Don't do that.
I never like to disturb a man
when he's drinking.
I could use a drink myself.
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