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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Our captain has a handicap to cope with, sad to tell.''
''He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well."''|'''[[Tom Lehrer]]''', It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier}}
Hailing from the [[Deep South]] of the continental United States, he's a stereotypical cigar-chompin' [[Good Ol' Boy]] who thinks shootin' and [[Stuff Blowing Up|blowin' stuff up]] is nothing but fun or at least doesn't take it as seriously as others in [[The Squad]].
He speaks with a heavy drawl or accent and often peppers his speech with odd euphemisms or folksy sayings that leave others confused or at a loss for words. Should he earn a promotion to officer, this will manifest as addressing his subordinates as "Son" and "Boy".
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He's the foil for any minority or [[New Meat]] soldiers in the unit, as he almost exclusively gets to play the role of the insular xenophobe.
Even if this character is written as an officer, it is important to remember that this is a class-specific trope. A military officer with southern accent, a good education and a genteel matter is not usually a
[[The Idiot From Osaka|Any geographical area of any country that's seen as being a bit backwards]] or woodsy can breed a non-US version of this character.
Despite the title, this trope is not a cross between [[Groin Attack]] and [[Kill It
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== [[Film]] ==
* Barry Pepper as squad sharpshooter Pvt. Jackson speaks in a southern drawl and prays out loud while he blows away Nazis in ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''.
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* Vernon Pinkley in the ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]''. There's also Archer Maggot, but he's a genuine full-blown [[Sociopathic Soldier|psychopath]], not just an ignorant, insular hick.
* Averted in the film ''[[Jarhead]]'' where the character Kruger (Lucas Black) is a Texan with a very thick accent and displays some of the tendencies above, but is by far the most outspoken critic of the military operation (such as the lack of free speech for soldiers and possible health dangers of the anti-chemical weapon pills they're given).
* ''[[Hamburger Hill]]'' Sgt. Dennis "''Dont mean Nuttin''" Worchester.
* Chef from ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''.
* [[Inglourious Basterds|Lt. Aldo Raine]]. He's a Lieutenant, not a Private, but he's still a hick from Maynardville,
* Conrad in ''[[Three Kings]]'' - "I rigged the football with C-4, sir.". Although possibly subverted, as he later gains respect for the Iraqi locals, {{spoiler|so much so that he requests to be interred by them}}.
* PFC ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' in the movie of the same name. Also his buddy Bubba Blue.
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Gump and Blue: Greenbow, sir!
Dan (amused): You boys twins?
Gump (confused): We are not relations, sir. }}
== Folklore ==
* [[Gender Inverted]] and Played for laughs in [http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/marines.asp this alleged letter home] from a backwoods female recruit.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[
* Sgt. Luther Rizzo from ''[[
** Another example is seen in the fifth-season episode "[[Meaningful Name|38 Across]]", where Hawkeye spends the entire half hour seeking the Yiddish word for "bedbug" in order to finish a crossword puzzle. Father Mulcahy suggests he "ask Shapiro", but Private Shapiro tells him in a classic cornpone accent that his family's lived in the [[Deep South]] for seven generations and he hasn't a clue.
* Denver 'Bull' Randleman from ''[[Band of Brothers]]'', to a certain degree.
** [[Truth in Television]]
* ''[[The Pacific]]'': Sid Phillips and Eugene Sledge are from Mobile, Alabama; Merriel "Snafu" Shelton is from Louisiana.
== [[Machinima]] ==
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== [[Music]] ==
* From [[Tom Lehrer]]'s "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier":
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"He's from Georgia and he doesn't speak the language very well." }}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Engineer from ''[[
* Haggard from ''[[Battlefield
* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto]] IV'', there's a TV show ''[[Halo]]'' parody called ''Republican Space Rangers'', in which three such characters explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and nuke them all to hell for being weird and different.
* Just about anyone with a speaking role in ''[[
* Corporal Dunn of ''[[Call of Duty]]: [[Modern Warfare]] 2'' has a southern accent, and is a bit less serious about the Rangers' situation than [[Sergeant Rock|Foley]], at least when not under fire. He also has something of a sarcastic streak and displays some disdain towards General Shephard and his "prima donna unit".
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* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Roswell That Ends Well," Fry's {{spoiler|would-have-been}} grandfather is a mild parody of this.
** Also, in "War is the H-Word" one of the bit characters is one.
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* Although retired, [[King of the Hill|Cotton Hill]] was obviously one during his army days.
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