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AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN

ROLE: FOLEY

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FOLEY #1

FOLEY, a Marine Drill Sergeant, meets the new class at U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School.

FOLEY Fall in. I said fall in! Right now! Right now! Move! Move! Move! Put your toes on the edge of that chalk line. Not on the line, not over the line: on the edge but not touching the line. (As MEN bumble to find their way to the line, THEY are joined by CASEY SEEGER, 25, female, and already in OCS fatigues.) Stand up straight and look at me right now! (OFFICER CANDIDATES do their best to stand at attention, but not being trained, THEY don’t do it well. FOLEY surveys the line.) I don’t believe what I’m seeing. The United States Navy must be pretty hard up. Why it chose this scraggly bunch to be class 14-81 at Officer Candidate School, I don’t know and I don’t got to. I do got to know why you chose the Navy. And I’m not talking about your motivational essays. The Navy’s not stupid. We know you’ve gone through four years of college to earn a diploma that’s not worth much except you have to have one to get in here where you might actually learn something that will make you some money someday. Only before you’re paid the big bucks to be a security consultant or captain of a cruise ship, before you sell what we taught you over at United Airlines, you got to give the Navy six years of your life. Lots of things can happen in six years. Another war can come in six years. And if you’re not a person who can put the lives of the sailors you’ll be leading before your own, I’m going to find that out. I told you the Navy’s not stupid: (Indicates himself.) That’s why it hires a marine to separate the good from the bad— (FOLEY’s gaze land on ZACK, who is looking at him.) From the ugly. Better stop eyeballing me, boy. You’re not worthy enough to look your superiors in the eye. Use your peripheral vision, understand?

ZACK Aye aye, sir.

FOLEY “Aye aye” is an acknowledgement of a command; “yes” is in response to a question. And when I say “understand,” I want the whole group to say “Yes, sir.” Understand?

ALL Yes, sir.

FOLEY UNDERSTAND?

ALL YES, SIR!

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FOLEY For the next twelve weeks, I will be your worst nightmare. Your worst nightmare is Class Drill Instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley; I am the first person in your chain of command. (A quick clip.) The second person in your chain of command is Officer Candidate School Commanding Officer, Captain Wagner; the third person is Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Chapman; the fourth person is Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman; the fifth person is Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger; and the sixth person in your chain of command is President of the United States, The Honorable Ronald Reagan. (To SEEGER.) Who is the fourth person in your chain of command?

SEEGER Sir, the fourth person in this officer candidate’s chain of command is Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman.

FOLEY (To OTHERS.) Officer Candidate Seeger’s the one you want to follow. Been here three weeks before she rolled back to that starting line. Why’d you roll, Seeger?

SEEGER This officer candidate couldn’t get over the wall, sir.

FOLEY (To other OFFICER CANDIDATES.) The Supreme Court says we got to let women in… but we don’t got to lower the physical requirements to keep them here. (To SEEGER.) You can roll once—but two strikes, you’re out. You’re not getting over that wall, little girl. (To ZACK.) Who is the first person in your chain of command?

ZACK Sir, the first person in this Officer Candidate’s chain of command is Class Drill Instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley.

FOLEY Better get that one right. What’s your name?

ZACK Mayo, sir. Zack Mayo.

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FOLEY You think you’re smart, don’t you, Mayo?

ZACK No sir. This officer candidate does not think he’s smart, sir. (Looks at FOLEY.) He knows he’s smart.

FOLEY What did I tell you about eyeballing me? People who can’t learn to take orders can’t learn to give them. (To ALL.) I will use every means necessary to expose your weaknesses as human beings. You want to man a submarine, command a battleship, fly a fighter pilot? First, you got to get past me. All right, report to the barbershop to get a buzz cut so close your scalp looks like your scrotum.

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SEEGER’s DAD in a hospital bed, with a teenage SEEGER by his side.

SEEGER’S DAD You can’t see a plane overhead without telling me its current altitude and what direction it’s flying in. You built so many model airplanes I had to build you Barbie’s Dream hangar to house them. Now you want to work at an airline ticket counter?

SEEGER I’ll fly for free, Dad, whenever I want.

SEEGER’S DAD Two weeks a year. The other fifty you’ll be stuck at an airport. Look, you’re happier in the air than you are on the ground. Why not spend as much time up there as you can?

SEEGER Like be a stewardess?

SEEGER’S DAD Be a pilot!

SEEGER Ah, Dad, I’m a girl.

SEEGER’S DAD So they told us when you were born. Didn’t occur to me there’d be things you’d want to do but couldn’t ‘cause of it. Who put that idea in your head?

SEEGER The world.

SEEGER’S DAD The world’s changing, even if I won’t be here to see it.

SEEGER Don’t say that!

SEEGER’S DAD I did what I was put here to do: be your dad. And I always will be. Don’t you wait for the world to change to do what you want with your life. Make it change by going ahead and doing it.

1 FOLEY #3 (as ADMIRAL WORLEY)

ADMIRAL WORLEY, his officer candidate son SID, JR., and LYNETTE— a factory worker—having dinner at the very upscale Officers’ Club. NOTE: ADMIRAL WORLEY is the first black admiral in U.S. history, and HE wants his son to follow in his footsteps.

ADMIRAL WORLEY When Junior said he was bringing a friend, I thought he meant a classmate.

LYNETTE How do you know I’m not? OCS is co-ed now.

ADMIRAL WORLEY Much to my dismay. But something tells me you’re not officer matieral.

SID I asked Zack to join us but he’s busy. You’d like him, Dad: top of our class.

ADMIRAL WORLEY Why aren’t you?

SID Did I tell you that our class has highest cumulative grade of any class this year? And Zack is two-tenths of a second away from breaking the all-time obstacle course record!

ADMIRAL WORLEY Why aren’t you?

LYNETTE Because he’s not Zack. Zack’s fast, but Sid is sweet and dear and kind—

ADMIRAL WORLEY Not qualities a sailor needs. Junior, have you written Rebecca since you’ve been here?

LYNETTE Who’s Rebecca?

SID A friend, that’s all, family friend.

ADMIRAL WORLEY (To LYNETTE.) And both families agree Rebecca and Junior are well matched.

SID We don’t love each other. Not like that, not like I love—

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ADMIRAL WORLEY (To LYNETTE.) Rebecca is in her second year at University of Oklahoma medical school, full ride. Tell me, Miss Pomeroy, what is it you do?

LYNETTE Work at a factory. Not ashamed to say it.

SID No reason you should be.

ADMIRAL WORLEY But as the the daughter-in-law of an admiral, there’ll be expectations of your wife that working the assembly line won’t have prepared her for.

LYNETTE You saying I’m not good enough?

ADMIRAL WORLEY Having been told too many times I wasn’t good enough, I would never say such a thing. But do I think you possess the qualities my son needs in a wife? Not. At. All.

SID Dad—!

LYNETTE Sid, you can let your father treat you like you don’t deserve the air you breathe, but no one treats me that way. (To ADMIRAL WORLELY.) Not even an admiral—I’m sorry, vice admiral.

(Exit LYNETTE. SID starts to follow.)

ADMIRAL WORLEY Stay where you are. That’s an order, Junior.

SID My name is Sid.

(HE exits. ADMIRAL WORLEY calls after him.)

ADMIRAL WORLEY Sid? Sid!

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