- Cpl. Daniel Redman: You know the military can fuck up anything. They can even make going to the beach suck. But one thing that ain't overrated is combat. You take rounds, you shoot back, stuff blowing up. Fucking sensory overload.
- Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: Where the fuck have you been? You haven't said two words since Baghdad.
- Cpl. Josh Ray Person: Ran out of Ripped Fuel.
- Cpl. Josh Ray Person: It looks like vodka. I think it's a kind of gin.
- Lt. Nathaniel Fick: It's the kind that doesn't come out when officers and senior NCO's are present.
- Cpl. Josh Ray Person: Aye Aye.
- [while under fire in Baghdad]
- Sgt. Steven Lovell: Sniper. He's in front of us.
- Evan 'Scribe' Wright: How can you tell?
- Sgt. Steven Lovell: You can only hear that clearly when you're directly in front of the rifle barrel.
- [the sniper fires another shot]
- Sgt. Steven Lovell: That zip means it's passing a few meters from our ears.
- Lt. Nathaniel Fick: One at a time! Colbert, go!
- Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: Bounding!
- [he runs across the alley and takes cover behind a wall as the sniper continues to fire]
- Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: Set!
- Sgt. Antonio Espera: I got no muzzle flashes.
- Lt. Nathaniel Fick: Rudy, go!
- Sgt. Rodolfo 'Rudy' Reyes: Bounding!
- [he makes it across the alley]
- Sgt. Rodolfo 'Rudy' Reyes: Set!
- Lt. Nathaniel Fick: Lovell, go!
- Sgt. Steven Lovell: Bounding!
- [he makes it across the alley]
- Sgt. Steven Lovell: Set!
- Sgt. Antonio Espera: All right, Poke, go.
- Sgt. Antonio Espera: Bounding!
- [he makes it across the alley; a bullet ricochets off the barrel Wright is hiding behind]
- Evan 'Scribe' Wright: God!
- Sgt. Antonio Espera: Set!
- Lt. Nathaniel Fick: Reporter, you ready?
- Evan 'Scribe' Wright: [uncertainly] Y-yes!
- Lt. Nathaniel Fick: Go!
- [Wright takes off running down the alley in a zigzag pattern; Fick shakes his head]
- Sgt. Antonio Espera: [laughing] What the fuck?
- [Wright finally makes it behind the wall]
- Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: Set, sir!
- [Fick makes it across the alley]
- Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: All up, sir. Reporter, what the fuck was that?
- Evan 'Scribe' Wright: "Serpentine, Shel, serpentine." You know, the movie, "The In-Laws." Peter Falk tells Alan Arkin, "Always run in a serpentine fashion." I was running evasively.
- Sgt. Steven Lovell: The next time we come under fire, run in a straight line. You'll live longer.
- Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: And have a full, happy life of betraying us and others with your venal lies.
- Sgt. Brad 'Iceman' Colbert: All this religion aside, people who can't kill will always be subject to those who can.