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''He's from Georgia, and he doesn't speak the language very well."''|'''[[Tom Lehrer]]''', It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier}}

 

== [[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]]''.

* 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).

* 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.

Gump (confused): We are not relations, sir. }}

 

== [[Music]] ==

* From [[Tom Lehrer]]'s "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier":

"He's from Georgia and he doesn't speak the language very well." }}

 

* 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.

* Although retired, [[King of the Hill|Cotton Hill]] was obviously one during his army days.