:54:08
- You sent for me, sir.
- Yes, I sent for you.
:54:12
What have you got in that radio platoon
of yours, the battalion clowns?
:54:15
- I'm afraid I don't understand the major.
- Then the major will explain.
:54:20
On every field problem, your boys get
the 3rd Battalion to lay miles of wire...
:54:25
...and then they just sit back
and tap the lines...
:54:28
...let the other guys do the work.
:54:30
Not only that, but they've fieldstripped
the 1 st Battalion's radio shack...
:54:34
...taken everything
that wasn't nailed down.
:54:37
While the rest of the regiment transmits
dull, routine military messages...
:54:41
...your boys want to liven up the party
by sending limericks.
:54:44
They seem to be under the impression
we hold field problems...
:54:47
...just to allow them to express
their poetic souls.
:54:50
Now, listen to this.
This was decoded yesterday.
:54:54
Here's the answer
Weapons Company got...
:54:56
...when they sent an ammunition request:
:54:59
There was an old sheik from Algiers
:55:02
Who said to his harem, "My dears
:55:05
You may..."
:55:08
There's nothing funny about this,
this is just plain filth!
:55:11
I know it is. The first time I received
that message was in Shanghai in '31.
:55:16
A young 2nd lieutenant sent it to me.
I believe his name was Huxley, sir.
:55:22
Well, you ought to have him
show a little discretion.
:55:25
Tell him to use a better code.
:55:27
If Regiment got ahold of this,
I might have trouble explaining it.
:55:31
- I'll square them away, sir.
- Okay, Mac.
:55:38
They're shaping into a real outfit.
Beginning to look like Marines.
:55:44
Yes, sir.
:55:50
- Shipping orders?
- That's it.
:55:52
Looks like we'll be shoving off
any day now.
:55:55
What do you think?
:55:56
Well, they've come a long way
in the last 30 days.