Transcript five: Cpl. Evan āQ-Tipā Stafford and Cpl. Anthony āManimalā Jacks.
Stafford: Yo, Manimal, got the maz 40 from the Lt. Screwby.
Jacks: Dammit Stafford, donāt call me āManimalā, fuck, itās just a name Rudy made. Fucking Rudy, fucking around.Ā
Stafford: A-frim, Corporal Jacks.Ā
Jacks: Iām gonna get my teeth fixed I just didnāt have time to get the new teeth made before we stepped off. Fuck you man, itās not like I wanna walk around without teeth.
Stafford: How did you fuck up your grill, man?
Jacks: Brother shot āem out with a BB gun when we were playing.
Jacks: You know man, I donāt know weāre gonna make it out of here. I donāt know, I just got a really bad feeling about this.Ā
Stafford: Way I see it, Iām gonna be the last motherfucker breathing. I mean, I may go down but, I aināt going down without my GAT in hand taking out as many motherfuckers as I can.Ā
Stafford: No man I am serious.
Jacks: If I get killed over here my wife will win the fucking lottery. Damn sure of that. Signed on the dotted line every fucking policy they got.
Stafford: She still back in Reno?
Jacks: No man, I finally got her and the boys up to oceanside. Told her Iād get some decent housing, they put us up in the fucking ghetto base houses.Ā
Stafford: That shit is all jacked up.
Jacks: Iām telling you, man my wife is gonna leave me, sheās gonna take my boys and she gonna fucking leave me, I know it.
Stafford: Man thatās just, thatās just screwby.
Jacks: Iām telling you the only thing out here thatās motivating me out here is I just want to see my boys one more time. Thatās like the one good thing about getting a girlfriend pregnant in high school, Iām going to be able to sit down and legally drink a beer with my oldest son before Iām forty.
Stafford: Thatās screwby, dawg.
Jacks: Yeah, I guess so.Ā
Stafford: Shit, Iāll tell you what motivates me.
Stafford: Fucking doing that hard shit man, I just want to do the hardest shit, see how far I can get. Thatās why I joined the Marine Corps. I was sitting home in Florida working as a cook, watching all the bullshit people from my high school doing the same old same old. Thatās why I wanna do something hard, fuck, like motherfucking hard, you know?Ā
Jacks: Fuck man, we are in it right now.Ā
Stafford: Yeah, but thatās not what Iām saying, man. Aināt like itās supposed to be, doing fucking ādrive-bysā from our trucks that shit aināt what I signed up for.Ā
Jacks: Shit, I signed up ācause I like being outdoors. Like working with my hands.
Jacks: Yeah, back home I was a tree-trimmer around powerlines. It was good, Iām telling you. Fuck it, signed up.Ā
Stafford: Had to be a warrior.
Jacks: No, it was the health insurance. I couldnāt get health insurance for my tree-trimming job. I was delivering pizzaās too, you know you canāt get injured doing that shit. Nah, Marine Corps. was the only one that let me enlist with my wife and kids, and still able to get full health benefits.Ā
Stafford: Hold Up. You came all the way out to Iraq, for health insurance?Ā
Jacks: Yeah. Fucking screwby, huh?