The bodies of LIEUTENANT TOUCHDOWN and HAND JOB laid out on ground sheets. The LUSTHOG SQUAD are gathered around them. The camera moves to each man, pausing for them to speak.
T.H.E. ROCK
You're going home now.
CRAZY EARL
Semper fi.
DONLON
We're mean marines, sir.
EIGHTBALL
Go easy, bros.
ANIMAL MOTHER
Better you than me.
RAFTERMAN
Well, at least they died for a good cause.
ANIMAL MOTHER
What cause was that?
RAFTERMAN
Freedom.
ANIMAL MOTHER
Flush out your head gear, new guy. You think we waste gooks for freedom? This is a slaughter. If I'm gonna get my balls blown off for a word ... my word is "poontang."
COWBOY
Tough break for Hand Job. He was all set to get shipped out on a medical.
JOKER
What was the matter with him?
COWBOY
He was jerkin' off ten times a day.
EIGHTBALL
It's no shit. At least ten times a day.
COWBOY
Last week he was sent down to Da Nang to see the Navy head shrinker, and the crazy fucker starts jerking off in the waiting room. Instant Section Eight. He was just waiting for his papers to clear division.
