Charts Quotes in Uncommon Valor (1983)

Charts: [Wondering if Scott is a Viet Nam vet] So, uh, how long were you there?

Kevin Scott: I wasn't. Too young.

Johnson: [Looking a little skeptical] Is he goin' with us?

Col. Cal Rhodes: He served with 4th Recon Marines.

Johnson: "Served"?

Kevin Scott: I was discharged for striking a radio operator who fell asleep at his post.

Kevin Scott: [the other men look a little askance at him, but he continues] You're worried that I have no combat experience. You're right. There's no way of proving that I won't fail in combat. But then again, you can't prove that I will, either.

Sailor: [Grinning mischievously at Scott] This is gonna' be a whole lotta' fun with this one.

Johnson: Red wine and uppers... that's why we call him Sailor. He used to take a lot of red wine and uppers, and just sail away.

Charts: How come he wears that goddamned grenade around his neck?

Blaster: Sailor always said, that if life got too shitty, he'd just pull the pin and see what's next.