Charlton Heston: Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson
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John : Are you the new soldier fella?
Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson : Yeah.
John : You got a lot of ribbons, what do they stand for?
Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson : Good conduct.
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Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson : Pull yourself together, Flaherty.
Cadet Thomas 'Tiger' Flaherty : I can't help it, I'm gonna throw up!
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Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson : We've gotta turn these milkshake drinking school boys into whiskey drinking soldiers.
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Mother Redempta : [showing Benson a portrait of a priest] This is our school's founder. He was canonized in 1857.
Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson : Aw, gee... That's too bad.
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[first lines]
Young Lieutenant : Major, you're exposed!
Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson : Get the men back to their original positions. We'll try it again.
Young Lieutenant : Major, we've executed the maneuver twenty-seven times since noon. The men are tired.
Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson : They missed their objective by seventeen seconds. Now do it till they do it right.
Young Lieutenant : Yes, sir.
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Major Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson : This army is overfed and undertrained.
