:03:02
Thanks, I already done it for you.
:03:10
You're the best bugler
they got over at Shafter.
:03:12
-You're the best bugler on this island.
-That's true.
:03:18
I feel for you, pal.
:03:19
But from my position,
I can't quite reach you.
:03:28
Ten-hut!
:03:32
At ease.
:03:33
-'Morning, sir.
-'Morning, men.
:03:35
Anything special for me?
I've only a few minutes.
:03:37
Yes, sir. New man here.
:03:39
Oh, yes. Come in.
:03:48
Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, reporting
to the Company Commander, as ordered.
:03:51
At ease. Where's that service record?
:03:56
''Born in Kentucky.
Enlisted first at Fort Meyer, Virginia.
:03:59
''Bugle Corps, First Bugler.''
:04:02
Prewitt, I always make it a policy
to talk to my new men.
:04:06
Now, I have a fine, smooth-running outfit.
:04:08
If I like a soldier, he can become
a non-commissioned officer quickly.
:04:12
But he has to show me
that he's got it on the ball.
:04:16
What trouble were you in,
in the Bugle Corps?
:04:18
No trouble, sir.
:04:19
What made you transfer out, then?
:04:21
It was a personal matter.
:04:24
-Something you wanted to ask, Sergeant?
-Why, yes, sir.
:04:27
Prewitt, you was a corporal
in the Bugle Corps.
:04:29
You took a bust to buck private
to transfer to an infantry outfit. Why?
:04:34
Because you like to hike, or was it
because you couldn't stand to bugle?
:04:37
It was a personal matter.
:04:39
That's up to the Company Commander
to decide.
:04:42
Well?
:04:44
I was First Bugler for two years.
:04:46
The Top Kick had a friend
who transferred in from another outfit.
:04:49
The next day he was made
First Bugler over me.
:04:52
I was a better bugler.
:04:54
And you asked out on account of that?
:04:57
Maybe it ain't sensible,
but that's the reason.