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Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a… — Gunnery Sargent Hartman

Film · War (film) · War

Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this, marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever and that means you live forever.

Gunnery Sargent Hartman
Full Metal Jacket · 1987
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Full Metal Jacket. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Natant/Harrier Films, 1987.

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