- Sgt. Michael McNamara: [after Bacera overdoses, Sgt. McNamara sprays Bacera's lifeless body with multiple rounds from an M-16] The enemy got him.
- Lt. Jeff Knight: What's it like?
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: What's it like?
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: You go out on patrol, and you kill a few of them.
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: Then they kill a few of yours.
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: Then you go back to base.
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: Eat.
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: Sleep.
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: Next day, same thing.
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: Before you know it, you're either dead, or you're going home.
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: It's good.
- Sgt. Robert Hayes: [to VC] You want to climb over my wire, welcome to my barbecue asshole
- [detonates a claymore]
- Sgt. Robert Hayes: [to a reporter] Major don't know motherfucking SHIT
- Jan Shultz: [on seeing several approaching Viet Cong] Fuck Me!
- Sgt. Robert Hayes: [seriously] They Just Might!
- [last lines]
- Sgt. Roach: [VC torch the village] I thought they were after us?
- Sgt. Roach: [in a crying fit, on finding Raymond has overdosed] You were supposed to go home