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** Lieutenant Ring also qualifies as one. He recognizes Highway has far more experience than he does and backs him up -taking the heat for Highway- when they are dressed by Major Powers.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Highway gets one from Powers when they first meet, Powers gets one from Colonel Meyers at the end of the movie, and Highway gives them to Recon Platoon continuously.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Semper Fi]]: The whole point of the movie.
* [[Sergeant Rock]]: Highway, once Recon gets to Grenada.
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* [[Things Get Real]]: At the end of the movie, the platoon gets to show how far it has come because of this.
* [[This Is Not a Drill]]: Both subverted and played straight. There's two times in the movie where the Marines are put on alert. The first one turns out to just be an exercise, but the second time is the real thing.
* [[Training
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: Recon Platoon considers Highway being put in charge of them to be this.
** [[Bait and Switch Tyrant]]: They later come to realize he's actually this.
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