Ashton Holmes credited as playing...
PFC Sidney Phillips
- Eugene B. Sledge: Sid... what's it like?
- PFC Sidney Phillips: [after a pause] I slept with a woman in Melbourne. I'm not braggin', but that's at one end, right?
- [points down the beach]
- PFC Sidney Phillips: And then way down there, as far as you can go, that's what it's like. And that... that you can never imagine.
- Eugene B. Sledge: Okay.
- PFC Sidney Phillips: [sees Eugene, who has just landed on the island, wandering around. He grins] I don't believe it.
- [he runs over and tackles Eugene]
- PFC Sidney Phillips: Something's wrong! Something's very wrong if you made it through boot camp!
- Eugene B. Sledge: Gimme a break, you old greaser, come on!
- [they wrestle]
- Capt. Andrew Haldane: [approaches with another officer] Get up off my deck.
- Eugene B. Sledge: [the boys jump to their feet and stand at attention] Captain Haldane.
- PFC Sidney Phillips: Sir.
- Capt. Andrew Haldane: What's this about, marine? Some rite of greeting new to the corps?
- PFC Sidney Phillips: [nervously] Yes, sir. I mean, no, sir.
- Capt. Andrew Haldane: [to Eugene] Who are you?
- Eugene B. Sledge: Private Eugene Sledge, sir.
- Capt. Andrew Haldane: You fellas know each other, or is this some kinda conflict resolution?
- Eugene B. Sledge: Old friends, sir. From Mobile, Alabama, sir.
- Capt. Andrew Haldane: Mobile?
- PFC Sidney Phillips: Yes, sir.
- Capt. Andrew Haldane: [amused] Old friends, huh?
- Second Marine: That explains it.
- Capt. Andrew Haldane: As you were. But try not to dislocate a shoulder or break an arm. We need both you men healthy.
- Eugene B. Sledge, PFC Sidney Phillips: Yes, sir.
