- Dr. Dick Richard: I didn't save these men just so they could die.
- Dodger: We're dead already, nobody here gets out alive. Breathing maybe, eating, sleeping. They ride the bus to work, cash a pay check, wait. But your life is out there, here, always.
- Dr. Dick Richard: You're very chatty tonight.
- Dodger: 55
- [feet from where they are to the mortar they just heard impact]
- Dodger: We were dead the day we got off the plane.
- Dr. Dick Richard: You know, you'd make a great recruiter.
- Colleen McMurphy: [about K.C.'s Heroin addiction] It's going to get worse. It's suicide on the installment plan.
- K.C. Koloski: I can control it.
- Colleen McMurphy: No one can control it. Not even you.
- K.C. Koloski: Just leave me alone. I had my reasons.
- Colleen McMurphy: There are no reasons good enough.
- K.C. Koloski: There are kinds of pain Colleen, that you can't even imagine.
- Colleen McMurphy: You don't know anything about me.
- K.C. Koloski: [chuckles] I've known you all my life. You sang in the church choir Coleen. You grew up in a nice little house covered with ivy Coleen. Mom did all her own baking and Daddy didn't pay enough attention to you because of all your brothers. How'm I doin' Colleen?
- Colleen McMurphy: This is a three scotch conversation, I'm only on my second.
- K.C. Koloski: Pep club? Senior Play? Student council? You're the girl that never wanted to share a gym locker with trash like me.
- Colleen McMurphy: You left out Pom-Pom squad.
- Dodger: [counting after each mortar explosion] 381... 217... 96...
- Dr. Dick Richard: 96?
- Dodger: 96 feet.
- Dr. Dick Richard: 96 feet what?
- Dodger: The drop.
- [another mortar round explodes nearby, shaking the building]
- Dr. Dick Richard: Damn it!
- Dodger: 77... they're good.
- Dr. Dick Richard: This is a hospital. Can't they see the great big red cross?
- Dodger: Don't care.
- Dr. Dick Richard: We should get these men out of here.
- Dodger: There's no place to go. Out there, the V.C., they own it. They'll come in along the river. Through the wires in twos. Break off along the perimeter, 25 men a side. Satchels first, then clearance, they'll come through that door one up, one down.
- Dr. Dick Richard: Not the outside door?
- Dodger: No. Never what you'd expect.
- Colleen McMurphy: [to K.C., re: Colleen's past] That's a three-scotch conversation... I'm only on my first.
- Cpl. Boonie Lanier: [During a massive attack Boonie runs up and grabs Wayloo] Get inside now!
- Wayloo Marie Holmes: [Wayloo realizes Boonie is wearing a dress] Hi.
- Cpl. Boonie Lanier: It's the neckline, it needs something.
- Wayloo Marie Holmes: Breasts.
- Cpl. Boonie Lanier: I was thinking of a boa.
- Wayloo Marie Holmes: Too cheap.
- Cpl. Boonie Lanier: Pearls?
- Cameraman: Too much.
- Cpl. Boonie Lanier: Choker?
- Wayloo Marie Holmes: Maybe.
- Cpl. Boonie Lanier: You sure?
- Wayloo Marie Holmes: About the choker definitely, about you...
- Cpl. Boonie Lanier: [gestures at the dress] It's Mardi gras night at the Jet Set.