Murray Hamilton credited as playing...
Irving S. Blanchard
- Sergeant King: Look, Sonny, how long have you been in the service?
- Irving S. Blanchard: About six hours, I guess. But I had R.O.T.C., though.
- Sergeant King: I suppose they told you it was all efficiency and getting things done and standing at attention and running around. Well, I've been in for 18 years and it ain't like you think it is at all. It's a quiet, peaceful life, if you mind your own business. It's like there was a big lake, nice and calm. I'm in a canoe, you're in another, and the Captain's in a canoe and the Colonel... and you know what you do if you report somebody or complain about somebody or request something? You make waves.
- Irving S. Blanchard: Well, I thought the Captain would want to know if he had a troublemaker in the outfit.
- Sergeant King: Look, Sonny, I hate to pull rank on you but, for your information, you've got the smallest canoe in the whole darn lake. Good night, Private.
- Drunk Infantryman at Purple Grotto: Fellas, you got it easier than anybody, even the Navy.
- Irving S. Blanchard: Easy? We got the roughest, toughest, meanest Sergeants in the whole service.
- Drunk Infantryman at Purple Grotto: Oh, go on. You don't know what a tough Sergeant is until you've been in the Infantry.
- Irving S. Blanchard: Ain't nobody tougher than my Sergeant. He's tough!
- Sergeant King: I sure am.
