:05:03
If you'll pardon me,
we're approaching Tempelhof Airfield.
:05:09
Oh, God, if they haven't got
a reception out for us.
:05:12
A band and everything.
:05:14
They'll be glad to see home folks.
:05:25
Men, once more it is our honour and
privilege to welcome a visiting committee.
:05:30
Lately they seem to be coming
as regularly as the electric bill.
:05:35
This time it's not just VIPs.
:05:37
This time we're getting VIPIs.
:05:40
Very Important Persons Indeed.
:05:43
Some Congressional committee
to investigate our morale.
:05:47
Seems back home, they've got an idea
this here is one great big picnic,
:05:52
that all we do is swing in hammocks
with blonde Fräuleins,
:05:55
swap cigarettes for castles on the Rhine
:05:57
and soak our feet in sparkling Mosel.
:06:00
Well, let's not kid ourselves.
:06:02
Some of you do go
overboard once in a while.
:06:05
Maybe some of you are working too hard
to enlighten the civilian population
:06:09
and maybe some of you
PX millionaires have found out
:06:12
you can parlay a pack of cigarettes
into something more than 20 smokes.
:06:16
After all, this isn't a Boy Scout camp.
:06:19
We've got a tough job on our hands
:06:21
and, by and large,
I think we're handling it darn well.
:06:24
For my dough, we're on the ball.
:06:26
Most of us, anyway... most of the time.
:06:29
What they've got to realise is you can't pin
sergeant's stripes on an archangel.
:06:35
Now, this committee
is going to be here for five days.
:06:38
Let's give them as good
an impression as possible.
:06:41
Not pussyfooting
around with a phoney attitude.
:06:44
That's not fair to them or us.
:06:46
I'm counting on you men to behave, period.
:06:50
Morale. Maybe some day we can send
a little committee of our own
:06:54
to investigate morale in Washington, DC.