Eversmann: Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
[Watching a Somali mother pick up a gun]
Specialist Mike Kurth: Don't do it lady!
"Hoot": When I get home people 'll ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do ya do it man? Why? Just some war junkie?" Ya know what I'll say? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you, and that's it. That's all it is.
Struecker: No one gets left behind, you know that.
Abdullah 'Firimbi' Hassan: That's right! You Americans don't smoke anymore. You live long, dull and uninteresting lives.
"Hoot": Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.
Struecker: It's what you do right now that makes a difference.
[Cpl. Smith is dying]
Smith: I'm sorry.
Eversmann: For what? You saved Twombly, you did it prefect.
Smith: You okay Twombs?
Twombly: Yeah, I'm okay, Jamie.
Eversmann: See, you did what you were trained to do. You should be proud of that, be proud of that.
Smith: Ev?
Eversmann: Yeah.
Smith: Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I fought hard.
Eversmann: You're gonna tell them yourself okay, Jamie?
Smith: Are... are the humvees here?
Eversmann: They're coming, Jamie. They're coming. You just gotta hold on for a little longer. Can you do that?
Smith: I can, I can. It's nothing. It's nothing.
Durant: Where's the rescue squad?
Shughart: We're it.
Eversmann: Remember, we're Rangers not some sorry-ass JROTC. We're Elite. Let's act like it out there. Hoo-ah?
Rangers: Hoo-ah!
[after an explosion]
Sanderson: Are you alright?
Grimes: Yeah, I can hear bells ringin'!
Crew Chief: Hey, Grimesy! No fear!
Grimes: Oh, yeah, RIGHT!
Pilot: Mike Durant, we won't leave you behind.
General Garrison: If we don't hold down this city we are gonna have 100 caskets to fill by morning.
Atto: You shouldn't have come here. This is a civil war. This is our war, not yours.
General Garrison: 300,000 dead and counting. That's not a war Mr. Atto. That's genocide.
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