When Stillman finds the vehicle missing, he launches an unauthorized mission to retrieve it, against Hulka's objections.
John and Russell steal it to visit Stella and Louise, who are stationed in West Germany. In Italy, the platoon is reunited with a recovered Hulka and tasked with guarding the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle, an armored personnel carrier disguised as a recreational vehicle. Impressed upon learning that they completed their training without a drill sergeant, Barnicke assigns them to his EM-50 project in Italy. They rush to the parade ground, where John leads them in an improvised, yet highly coordinated, drill display. After a night of practice, they oversleep and upon awakening, they realize they are late for the ceremony. John motivates the disheartened platoon with a speech and begins preparing them for graduation. John and Russell, after having sex with Stella and Louise, return to base. The rest of the platoon are returned to base, where Stillman reprimands them for being arrested and threatens to report them to the base commander, General Barnicke, and make them repeat basic training. When MPs and police raid the club, Stella and Louise help John and Russell escape. Later, members of Hulka's platoon sneak off base and visit a mud wrestling bar, where John convinces Ox to mud wrestle with a group of women for $400. John honors Russell's request for both of them to continue basic training.Īs graduation approaches, Hulka is injured when the haughty and dull-witted Captain Stillman, the platoon's commanding officer, orders a mortar crew to fire without first setting target coordinates. Louise and Stella find them fighting and drive them back to their barracks without reporting them. Russell awakens, discovers John's absence, finds him attempting to leave base and angrily intervenes, as it was John's idea they both enlist. Hulka offers to allow him a punch, but John misses so Hulka punches him in the stomach, reminding him to learn a lesson from the encounter.ĭuring the night, John attempts to escape back to Louisville. John then tells him he can kick him out of the Army if he desires, but to otherwise leave him alone.
In the latrines, Hulka privately tells John that he is not soldier material. Hulka orders Russell to scrub garbage cans for 24 hours, while ordering the rest of the platoon to do kitchen patrol for the next two weekends. While outgoing, John stands out as a slacker throughout basic training, but he and Russell become romantically involved with MPs Louise Cooper and Stella Hansen.Īfter Hulka discovers that John and Russell have gone AWOL from basic training, Russell confesses his mistake, but John keeps silent. One of them, Dewey "Ox" Oxberger, says he wants to lose weight and be respected by his fellow trainees and women in general. Following in-processing, the recruits introduce themselves and explain their reasons for enlisting in the Army. Upon arrival, they meet their fellow recruits and their drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka. He talks his best friend Russell Ziskey, a vocational ESL teacher, into joining him, and they go to a recruiting office and are soon sent off to basic training at nearby Fort Arnold. Realizing his limited prospects, he joins the Army.
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Within a few hours, Louisville, Kentucky cab driver John Winger loses his job, his apartment, his car, and his girlfriend Anita, who has grown tired of his immaturity.
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