Rock and a Hard Place Page #4

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The object of this class

is to make you very much aware

of what happens to you

prior to you becoming angry.

I want to know what you experience

when you get agitated.

I'm gonna start over here.

- I clench my teeth.

- Good. Very good.

My head gonna hurt 'cause I be

thinking too much of what I wanna do.

- You get a headache?

- Yeah.

- It feels like my heart drops, like...

- Mm.

...I just pop.

Once you start feeling the heat,

once you start clenching your teeth,

that's your warning sign.

Do not ignore your yellow light.

- This is your ticket to not coming back here.

- Ma'am, yes, ma'am.

A lot of us ain't built mentally

to... built like this place.

Like, the stuff that goes down in here,

like, in this program.

Mm-hmm.

When you do get out,

this stuff, you ain't gonna be able to...

like, I think... I think most

people, when they get out,

they ain't gonna be

able to cooperate right.

This is a form

of rehabilitation/ punishment.

- Okay?

- I understand that,

but how long can you keep

saying, "Cope with that"?

Till... you cope with it

until you get out of here.

- That's true.

- Cope with it.

Cadets:
Knees bent and a 30-inch

step with your left foot, sir.

You're stepping off 30

inches with the left foot.

You're leaning back.

You're not just saying things to say them.

You're saying it so you can remind

yourself what it is I expect you to do.

- Do you understand me?

- Sir, yes, sir.

You guys are not following

what we're saying,

you're not paying attention.

- Are you ready?

- Lopez:
Go!

Go!

That's what I'm talking about, God damn it.

Boot camp.

(grunting)

Lopez:
It's like marching

a bunch of zombies!

You've got 15, 14... line up on

the other side. Quickly, quickly!

Four, three, two, and...

If you put nothing into it... (bangs table)

you get nothing out of it.

- Start freaking pushing!

- You better say something! You better say, "Aye, sir!"

- Oh!

- Did I hurt your feelings?

- Get on up! Do it now!

- Sir, yes, sir!

- Officer:
Let's go.

- Hurry up!

(panting, grunting)

Cadet:
Dukes!

- (grunts)

- Hey, Dukes!

(chatter)

Hodge:
I'm sure

they're very fatigued,

ready for us to lay off,

but that's not in our nature,

so we're fitting to come

tough or come harder.

They have to learn how to

maintain control and discipline

regardless of what

happens at boot camp.

There's a method to the madness.

(Fouquet shouting)

Fouquet:
Left, right!

(Fouquet vocalizing commands)

Pick it up and fix that.

(officer vocalizing commands)

What are you doing?!

I never told you to throw the locker!

Did I tell you to throw a locker?

Did I tell you to throw a locker?

Did I tell you to throw a damn locker?

- Officer:
Get him out of here.

- Get outside.

- He's ready to go.

- Fouquet:
What seems to be the problem, Wimbley?

You letting them friggin'

doggone creeps rub off on you

so you wanna go home?

Is that what the freak

you wanna do, Wimbley?

- Wimbley:
Ma'am, yes, ma'am.

- Oh, you wanna go home?

You wanna leave? You

wanna go do prison?

You getting in your

feelings, Wimbley?

You better fight whatever devil

that's in your friggin' doggone

grape. Do you understand that?

One thing you'll never do,

you'll never lose your military bearing

with no drill instructor.

Go ahead, you. I got him. Take off.

Sit down.

Sit down, sit down.

What you upset about?

Talk to me.

Speak freely.

This is your time to speak freely.

There ain't no more drill

instructors in the back.

Speak freely.

- What's on your mind, son?

- I'ma be on that, cleaning and sh*t.

I'm gonna do what I gotta do.

I don't want nobody in my face

with all that asking, answering.

If I'm doing what I'm supposed to do,

man, would you let me be? I'm invisible.

Hodge:
Hey, come on. Come on.

Not talking to Corporal?

Not right now.

We started with 38, we lost two,

and we've lost one more cadet.

I don't know if y'all

remember Cadet Wimbley.

See, that's the face.

He's not gonna be coming

back with the platoon.

Down to 35. Let's focus on

the 35 and let's move forward.

- Okay?

- Not a problem.

- Sounds good.

- All right.

What is this guy's name that he's

not speaking English that well?

I know enough to do

personal hygiene with him.

- Uh, which one?

- Gonzalez, Francisney.

Okay, and the other one is...

Here's the other one... Cordero.

They just picking up a

little slower than others.

They gonna either get

better at what they're doing

or we're gonna keep pushing them.

That's all we can do, is keep pushing them.

- (chatter)

- (door closes)

- (speaking Spanish)

- Cordero and Gonzalez: Aye, sir.

(muttering)

(speaking Spanish)

Lean back and take a 30-inch

step with the left foot, sir.

(speaking Spanish)

- Aye, sir.

- Aye, sir.

(speaking Spanish)

(shouts in Spanish)

(both speaking Spanish)

(Fouquet shouting)

- All the way to the squad bay.

- Both:
Aye, ma'am.

(imitating) "Aye, ma'am. Aye, ma'am."

I need it friggin' doggone quiet.

Left, right.

Forward, march.

- What's your name there, you?

- Sir, Cadet Terrell, sir.

- You sure, right?

- Sir, yes, sir!

- You've been doing real good, ain't you?

- Aye, sir!

- People talking good about you.

- Aye, sir!

- Good job. Get away.

- Aye, sir!

Sir, good afternoon, sir!

What's your name there, you?

- Yo-ho!

- Sir, Cadet Williams, sir.

- Williams?

- Yes, sir.

That you, Williams?

- That you, Williams?

- Aye, sir.

Oh, snap! Look at that.

- You're doing real good there, Williams.

- Aye, sir.

- You supposed to have been gone a long time ago.

- Sir, yes, sir.

- You're still here.

- Aye, sir.

- Good job there, you.

- Aye, sir.

- Carry on.

- Aye, sir.

What about you? What's your name?

Sir, Cadet Youngblood requesting

permission to speak, sir.

- Youngblood.

- Aye, sir.

I don't know you, Youngblood.

- I know you, Youngblood?

- Sir, no, sir.

- I smoked you before, Youngblood?

- Sir, no, sir.

So that means you must be

doing good if I don't know you.

Aye, sir.

I know that nasty Williams over there,

- but I don't know you.

- Aye, sir.

- How old are you, boy?

- Cadet Youngblood requesting permission to speak, sir.

- Speak.

- Aye, sir. 19, sir.

- 19?

- Sir, yes, sir.

So, you 19 years old, you ain't

get in no trouble. That's good.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Yeah, that's real good.

- Sir, yes, sir.

- Good job there, you.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Now, what kind of aspirations and goals you got?

Aye, aye, sir. So, this cadet wants

to graduate from this program, sir,

and enroll in a trade school

and learn culinary, sir.

- Culinary?

- Sir, yes, sir.

- You're trying to be a chef for real, huh?

- Sir, yes, sir.

- That sounds like a chef. That don't sound like a cook.

- Aye, sir.

- Where would you like to work?

- Aye, sir.

So, this cadet wants to work at...

- IHOP or Denny's, sir.

- IHOP?

- That boy like to eat.

- Officer:
You selling yourself.

Why are you selling yourself?

IHOP and Denny's. Nothing wrong with them.

I go there, I eat breakfast, lunch, or

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