John Wayne credited as playing...
Col. Mike Kirby
- Colonel Mike Kirby: What are you going to say in that newspaper of yours about us in Vietnam?
- George Beckworth: If I say what I feel, I may be out of a job.
- Sergeant Muldoon: Are you sure that's what he wanted?
- Colonel Mike Kirby: Affimative! That's what he wanted and that's what he's gonna get.
- Sergeant Muldoon: We'll maybe he liked the idea of having so many men think about him every day.
- Colonel Mike Kirby: Besides that... It SINGS!
- [exits]
- Sergeant Muldoon: [to himself] It sings? That's what he said. Provo's Privy, It DOES sing!
- Captain Coleman: Oh, uh, I noticed a load of corrugated tin has miraculously appeared overnight.
- Capt. MacDaniel: Sergeant Petersen provided it.
- Captain Coleman: Well, that's a good man you've got there.
- Colonel Mike Kirby: Sergeant Petersen say where he got it?
- Capt. MacDaniel: He, uh, said The Good Fairy left it.
- Colonel Mike Kirby: [smiling] I hope he said The Good Fairy left it, SIR!
- Colonel Mike Kirby: What is there not to like? Who is she?
- Col. Morgan: Her name is Lin. Her father was chief of the Han Phou provence.
- Col. Cai: Until he refused to cooperate with the Viet Cong.
- Colonel Mike Kirby: So, they killed him.
- Col. Cai: They murdered him and her little brother in the most hideous way.
- Colonel Mike Kirby: That's their style.
- George Beckworth: Is this what you really do out here? Sponsor an Inquisition?
- Colonel Mike Kirby: Oh, is that what you're gonna say in that newspaper of yours?
- George Beckworth: I'm gonna tell my readers the facts of what I saw in there!
- Colonel Mike Kirby: What you saw in there was nothing.
- George Beckworth: I don't call brutality nothing! Torturing one of your own South Vietnamese men!
- Colonel Mike Kirby: That man in there was lining us up for a VC mortar crew!
- George Beckworth: Even if that's true, there is still such a thing as due process!
- Colonel Mike Kirby: Out here, due process is a bullet!