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	Season 1 / Episode 23: - And If They Lay Us Down to Rest... (1) Lt. Paul Wang: [Wang is sacrificing himself to hold off the Chigs while the other marines rescue the POWs] Ooh-rah! Lieutenants Winslow, Jenkowitz, Woodiak, Nelson... This is for you!
	Season 1 / Episode 21: - Stardust Lt. Vanessa Damphousse: Saratoga, this is Demios. Request response to request for air cover. Situation deteriorating... Many units in retreat... Airfield in jeopardy of being taken. Many casualties, request response. Lt. Price: Demios, this is the Saratoga... Commodore Glen van Ross: [interrupts the LT to speak to the troops being left behind] Lieutenant. Marines, this is Commodore Ross of the USS Saratoga. We remain proud of you. Due to security reasons, I am unable to explain this painful directive. Due to the fortunes of war... Black Forest. I say again, Black Forest. Capt. Shane Vansen: [Vansen interprets the code] No air support. Commodore Glen van Ross: Red Sea. Red Sea... Capt. Shane Vansen: [Vansen interprets again] No ground reinforcement. Commodore Glen van Ross: You are encouraged, but not so ordered, to continue to engage the enemy. If, however, your positions become untenable, you are authorized to surrender. Semper Fidelis, and may God be with you always.
	Season 1 / Episode 20: - R & R Commodore Glen Van Ross: Son, I don't think you're going to understand what I have to say. This Commodore Glen Van Ross: is Rosayln. You damage her, you damage me, and I will make you walk all 12.6 lightyears back to Fat Anthony's Guitar Parlor in Shreveport, Louisiana to repair a single nick.
	Season 1 / Episode 19: - Pearly Capt. Shane Vansen: Lookin' for action. I'm a dead-stroke player going strong for the cheese. Won't fade with the nits or sharks. Got no time for hustles, lemonading, or stalling. Now, who in this room has the... heart to show me their speed? Handsome Alvin: [like Clint Eastwood] They call me Handsome Alvin. This is my house. And in my house, attitudes like yours... get spanked. Capt. Shane Vansen: Sounds like you got the plums... Alvin. Rack 'em.
	Season 1 / Episode 19: - Pearly Lt. Nathan West: I'm a hot pilot. Best there is on this ship after... Capt. Shane Vansen: Me. Lt. Nathan West: McQueen.
	Season 1 / Episode 15: - Never No More Commodore Glen Van Ross: I'll be a son of a bitch if I go to your funeral, Ty. Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: Yes you would sir. But we'll talk about your mother when I get back.
	Season 1 / Episode 15: - Never No More Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: Looking darkly upon Hector, swift footed Achilles answered, 'I cannot forgive you. As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions, there can be no love between you and me. Before then to glut with his blood, Ares, the god who fights under the shield's guard. Now the time comes for you to be a spearman and a bold warrior. You will pay in a lump for all the sorrows of my companions you have killed in your spear's fury.'
	Season 1 / Episode 15: - Never No More Priest: Colonel. Colonel! Colonel McQueen! Do you need to make peace with your maker. Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. What do I need to make peace with him for? Priest: In times of war we must all make peace with our maker. Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: Well, I don't think our maker wants to hear from me right now. Because he know I'm going to go out in this plane and I'm going to remove one of His creations from His universe. And when I get back, I'm going to drink a bottle of scotch as if it was Chiggy Von Richtofen's blood and celebrate his death. Priest: Amen.
	Season 1 / Episode 14: - Level of Necessity Commodore Glen Van Ross: Who is that? Which squadron? Communications Officer: It's the 58th, sir! The Wild Cards! Commodore Glen Van Ross: Abandon All Hope my ass!
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - Who Monitors the Birds? Lt. Vanessa Damphousse: If this is a gift, you can have it back.
	Season 1 / Episode 12: - The River of Stars Cooper Hawkes: Monitor? Who monitors the birds? Monitor #2: I monitor the birds. Cooper Hawkes: Who monitors you?
	Season 1 / Episode 11: - Stay with the Dead Lt. Paul Wang: "... and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun." Thank you, Shane.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - The Enemy Capt. Shane Vansen: It's November 19th. Sunday back home. Sundays this time of year, I used to lay in bed and watch the morning football game. And then I'd go out when the sun was just... right. Golden. Autumn. I grew up in San Diego, and people say that there are no change of seasons in California, but... there are. I could always feel it. Always. There is just this... cold, inevitable edge in the air. The light, the colors... it's as if the Earth were letting you know that Summer was gone. There's no getting it back. Winter's coming and there's nothing that you can do to escape it. A lot of people say that they fall in love in the Spring. Not me. I always fell in love in Autumn. It is just the most... romantic... sexy... desperate... And I'll never see it again. This enemy could kill every last person on Earth and there would still be Autumn. But I'm going tomorrow morning to make sure that there is always someone there to feel it.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot (1) Sergeant Major Frank Bougus: In space, no one can hear you scream unless it is the war cry of a U.S. Marine!
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot (1) Gunnery Sergeant Frank Bougus: Your current orders are to take 48 hours leave. Lt. Nathan West: Ship us out, sir! Capt. Shane Vansen: Sir, why have we been under accelerated training if we are not going to be used? Gunnery Sergeant Frank Bougus: Listen! All we know is what you found last week! We have no idea what lies ahead! We know basically nothing about the enemy - numbers, weapons, tactics! That is why we have been LOSING and LOSING BADLY in every battle of this war! [quietly] Don't be in such a hurry. My advice: go home. See your families. It could be the last time.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot (1) Gunnery Sergeant Frank Bougus: Until this war is over, the only easy day is yesterday!
	Unknown Episode: Capt. Shane Vansen: Even if we are trained to die, we have got to believe that we're going to live.
	Unknown Episode: Lt. Nathan West: In fifty years, on that burned spot, the trees will be back. And so will we.
	Unknown Episode: Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: This war wasn't just made for Nathan West!
	Unknown Episode: Kylen Celina: Nathan! I believe in you.
	Unknown Episode: Capt. Shane Vansen: McQueen was born with a ka-bar and a Corps tattoo. Lt. Paul Wang: Can you imagine if he was anything else? Like a plumber? Lt. Paul Wang: [imitating McQueen] Okay, listen up. This one's in the kitchen. I'm here to fix your faucet, so check your six. I'm gonna replace the strainer part, and I'm gonna replace the washer. It's gonna be a real knife fight. Now I'm gonna utilize a monkey wrench and perhaps even a plunger. And when I'm done, you'll have water. [McQueen enters] It'll be hot, and it'll be cold. And one more thing. [Wang flips table] It's okay to be scared. Lt. Paul Wang: [realizes McQueen is standing behind him] Sir, sir, it... It's the greatest form of flattery. Sir.
	Unknown Episode: Felicity O: Fate's a bitch.
	Unknown Episode: Commodore Glen Van Ross: Now hear this, CFB! This is Operation Red Baron! All our plans are on hold until this Chig dies! I want you to go out there, find this bastard, and you pile on!
	Unknown Episode: Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: [narration] We thought we were alone. We believed the universe was ours. Until one night in 2063, on a Earth colony 16 light-years away, they struck. Now we're at war. We fight when called, in space, on land, and at sea. To lose this war means more than defeat; to surrender is to never go home. All of us must rise to the call... above and beyond.
	Unknown Episode: Capt. Shane Vansen: Enemy is superior!
	Unknown Episode: Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: The dim glow falling upon the dried blood of Union brothers in the Manassas eve still guides our path. Constellations, hidden by fierce Pacific storms in the Bataan sky remain obscured by rain. The stars - a billion for every life laid down in Vietnam - still shine on us and will guide those who follow. Lt. Cooper Hawkes: What dead guy wrote that? Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius "TC" McQueen: I wrote it.

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