Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski Quotes in Jarhead (2005)

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: [to the Marines] This is not Rambo time.

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: Good afternoon Marines!

All Marines: Good afternoon, sir!

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: Jesus Did you just land in a War Zone or a funeral parlor? Good afternoon Marines!

All Marines: GOOD AFTERNOON, SIR!

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: OOOO! I just felt my dick move!

[All Marines are laughing]

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: For those of you that don't know me, I am Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski, your battalion commander. We are now part of Operation Desert Shield, now just north of us, Saddam Hussein has got one million Iraqi soldiers, now some of those boys have been fighting since you were nine or ten years old, they are tough, they will stop at nothing, they've used nerve gas against the Iranians and the Kurds, here's a picture.

[All marines are looking stunned and angered at the picture of a boy hit with nerve gas]

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: Now I know what you're thinkin', you're thinkin' "let's kick ass! and take names! And end *this* shit, the day before yesterday!"

All Marines: OORAH!

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: But the bureaucrats have a lot of jaw bonin' to do, so for now these Iraqis who have raped and pillaged poor little Kuwait, are not yet in our gunsights. Our current mission is to protect the oil fields of our good friends in the Kingdom of Saud until further notice, and gentlemen, I'm talkin' a lot of oil, a LOT of oil, so you will hydrate, you will train, you will adjust to this desert, and you'll hydrate some more, and you will be ready, you will maintain a constant state of suspicious alertness, and one day soon, Saddam Hussein is gonna regret pullin' this sorry shit!

[points to picture of boy]

All Marines: OORAH!

Fowler: We're gonna kick some Iraqi ass!

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: Hahaha! What did you say?

Fowler: We're gonna kick some Iraqi ass, SIR!

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: Oh hell, son, you're gonna win the Medal of Honor all by your self! what's the rest of my battalion gonna do?

All Marines: Kick some Iraqi ass!

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: You know what? I think it's time for me to retire... I can't hear a FUCKIN' THING!

All Marines: [All the Marines in the tent rise as one] KICK SOME IRAQI ASS!

Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski: Oh, boys, I just got a hard on!