Patton Page #3

finished breakfast?

We're open from 6 till 8.

Most of the officers are

just coming in, sir.

Please inform these officers

the mess hall is closed.

But, sir! It's only a quarter to 8.

From now on, you will open at 6

and no one will be admitted after 6: 15.

Where are your leggings?

Leggings? Well, hell, general, sir,

I'm a cook.

You're a soldier.

$20 fine.

Gentlemen...

...from this moment any man...

...without leggings, without a helmet,

without a tie...

Any man with unshined shoes

or soiled uniform...

...is going to be skinned.

This is a barracks.

It's not a bordello.

- Good morning.

- Good morning, sir.

Doctor.

Sir.

I understand you have two cases

of self-inflicted wounds.

Yes, sir, we do.

Get them out of here.

One has developed a serious infection.

I don't care if he dies,

just get him out of here.

Doesn't belong in the same room

with men wounded in battle.

- I'll see that they're moved.

- One more thing.

There'll be no "battle fatigue. "

That's an order.

Battle fatigue is a free ride

to the hospital.

I'm not going to subsidize cowardice.

Yes, sir.

Doctor...

Where's your helmet?

I don't wear a helmet

in the hospital.

Start.

I can't use my stethoscope

when I'm wearing my helmet.

Well...

...then cut two holes in your helmet

so that you can.

And get those yellow-bellies

out of here, today.

Hold it.

Turn right, here.

The battlefield is ahead.

Don't argue.

I can smell a battlefield.

He was out here yesterday.

It's over there. Turn right, damn it.

It was here.

The battlefield was here.

The Carthaginians

defending the city...

...were attacked by three

Roman legions.

They were brave, but they

couldn't hold. They were massacred.

Arab women...

...stripped them of their tunics

and their swords and lances.

The soldiers lay naked in the sun...

...2000 years ago.

I was here.

You don't believe me.

You know what the poet said:

"Through the travail of ages

It's the pomp and toils of war

Have I fought and strove and perished

Countless times upon the star

As if through a glass and darkly

The age-old strife I see

Where I fought in many guises

Many names

But always me. "

You know who the poet was?

Me.

There's an opportunity

for us to mount an offensive.

We've concentrated on the flank...

...draw strength from the British.

It appears now that we could...

...split the African corridor.

Drive through Rommel to the sea.

I'm sorry, but that territory

has been reserved...

...for General Bernard Law Montgomery.

We're supposed to let him win this one

no matter what.

They're entitled to have their hero.

Montgomery did push Rommel

clear across North Africa.

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