- Nobody knew he had a girl--not even the girl!
- Give him 12 weeks. He'll give you a Few Good Men.
- The First Story of That Special Rugged Breed They Call the Drill Instructor
- The recruits: strong, cocky, undisciplined. But they won't be United States Marines...until somebody stronger and cockier - and, above all, disciplined - gets done with them. Somebody like Jim Moore.
- To their faces, he called his recruits "clowns," "little girls," "maggots," "turds," and worse. Behind their backs, he called them wonderful.
- This is T/SGT. Jim Moore, toughest of the tough-guy Drill Instructors. One of the most powerful of all screen performances.
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