:12:01
What you been smoking, Junior?
:12:05
I hope you don't get that laundry gig.
I hope manny get it,
:12:09
cos your ass need to hump,
hump and hump!
:12:12
Hey, white boy... what you waiting for?
:12:15
That hole ain't gonna dig itself.
:12:17
Come on, get your dick-skin on that thing!
Dig! You ain't got all day! Dig! Dig!
:12:25
Somebody once wrote:
"Hell is the impossibility ofreason".
:12:30
That's what this place feels like - hell.
:12:34
I hate it already and it's only been a week.
:12:37
Some goddamn week, Grandma.
:12:41
The hardest thing l1ve ever done is
go on point. Three times this week.
:12:46
I don't know what l1m doing.
:12:49
A gook could be three feet in front ofme
and I wouldn't know it.
:12:53
I'm so tired.
:12:56
We get up at 5am,
:12:58
hump all day,
camp around four or five,
:13:02
dig a foxhole, eat,
:13:04
then put out an all-night ambush
or a three-man listening post.
:13:08
It's scary cos nobody tells me
how to do anything, cos I'm new.
:13:12
Nobody cares about new guys.
They don't even wanna know your name.
:13:18
A new guy's life isn't worth as much
cos he hasn't put his time in yet.
:13:23
They say ifyou're gonna get killed
in the Nam,
:13:26
it's better to get it in the first few weeks.
:13:30
The logic being
you don't suffer that much.
:13:33
If you're lucky,
you stay in the perimeter at night.
:13:36
Then you pull a three-hour guard shift.
:13:39
Maybe you sleep three, four hours
a night... But you don't really sleep.
:13:52
I don't think I can keep this up
for a year, Grandma.
:13:57
I think I've made a big mistake
coming here.