Rami Malek credited as playing...
PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton
- PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton: [sitting and watching the other men scrubbing out drums] You assholes are gonna miss cleanin' out oil barrels pretty soon. You gonna be humpin' up some fuckin' hill...
- [he lights a cigarette, despite being beside a 'no smoking' sign]
- PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton: ... or across a beach, Japs pourin' shit for fire, pissin' your pants, cryin' boo-hoo, wishin' you were back here with nothin' asked of you but to scrub oil outta drums.
- Bill Leyden: [angrily] Why don't you grab a brush and give us a hand?
- PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton: Fuck that shit, I scrub drums for no man.
- Eugene B. Sledge: Can we take a break?
- PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton: Do whatever you want, this ain't my detail.
- [the others look at each other incredulously]
- PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton: I was supposed to dump y'all off here and report back to the C.P.
- PFC Robert Oswalt: Then why're you still here?
- PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton: [smirking] I like to watch the new guys sweat.
- [last lines, as Sledge and Oswalt look out over the burning Peleliu airfield at night]
- PFC Robert Oswalt: Look at that. You ever been to the Grand Canyon?
- Eugene B. Sledge: No.
- PFC Robert Oswalt: My dad went when he was a boy. He was always goin' on about it when I was little. I'd ask him about it, he said I had to see it to understand. He finally took me when I was ten. We got there late at night to these cabins, couldn't see a thing on account of the dark. Next morning, we got up, went outside... ten yards from where we slept, the fucking Grand Canyon. A mile down. Colors I'd never seen before. My dad was right. Pictures don't show it. You have to be there... lookin' down into it.
- PFC Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton: [trying to fall asleep] Shut the fuck up, you idiot.
- Eugene B. Sledge: [softly] We have to go out there tomorrow.
- [Oswalt doesn't answer]
