- Pvt. Johnny Rico: [after saving Higgins and General Redwing] All right, apes, we still have pests to control!
- Gen. Miriam Redwing: Rico! Thanks for the save, Sergeant. I'm not complaining, but you should have killed me to keep what I know from that brain.
- Pvt. Johnny Rico: That was Plan B.
- Gen. Miriam Redwing: Very good. There's no way I'm allowing a unit this effective to be split up.
- Pvt. Johnny Rico: You'll assign us a new lieutenant?
- Gen. Miriam Redwing: No. I don't have another one to spare.
- Pvt. Johnny Rico: Then...
- Gen. Miriam Redwing: I'm offering you a battlefield promotion, son.
- Pvt. Johnny Rico: Me, an L. T. ?
- [Redwing nods]
- Pvt. Johnny Rico: But what about officers' training school and all that?
- Gen. Miriam Redwing: You can play cadet when the war is over. Do you want the job or not?
- Pvt. Johnny Rico: Not!
- [Flores elbows him]
- Pvt. Johnny Rico: But I'll take it, until I'm history or until you find someone better.
- [Gossard climbs a mountain and plants a bomb]
- Cpl. Jeff Gossard: Okay idiot, now where do you shoot from?
- Gen. Miriam Redwing: [after hearing one of the Roughnecks make a bird whistle to fool the bugs] That's the worst bluejay I've ever heard.
- Pvt. Robert Higgins: The bugs don't know that, General. The Roughnecks never leave a man behind.
- Gen. Miriam Redwing: You're describing Razak's Roughnecks, and Jean Razak is gone.
- [T'Phai tries to call Strawberry Park in hope of calling in for any M. I. reinforcements]
- T'Phai: Strawberry Park, do you read!
- Sgt. Francis Brutto: Colonel, give it a rest! Help is not on its way
- T'Phai: You never have been one to ask for help.
- Sgt. Francis Brutto: [referring to being physically disabled on the Valley Forge during the Klendathu campaign] And now I'm not worth helping. Tonight's only proven what I guessed that night I first woke up in the hospital. I'm useless to you guys. Worthless damaged goods.
- T'Phai: You are none of those things.
- Sgt. Francis Brutto: I'm worse. I'm a liability. Rico should just leave me sitting here.
- T'Phai: The Roughnecks never leave a man behind.
- Sgt. Francis Brutto: I'm not a Roughneck anymore. I'm not even a man anymore.
- T'Phai: I agree.
- Sgt. Francis Brutto: Huh?
- T'Phai: [points to Brutto's disabled legs] The problem is not here. The problem is here
- [points to Brutto's head]
- [the Roughnecks and General Redwing finally start Lieutenant Razak's funeral and spreading his ashes over Luna Lake after getting out of a battle. Narrating]
- Pvt. Robert Higgins: Lieutenant Jean Razak died in the line of duty on day 210 of the battle for planet Earth. His last request was that we drop his ashes over Luna Lake at sunrise.
- [the rest of the Roughnecks, including General Redwing salute, with Lieutenant Rico giving one last gaze at the picture of the Roughnecks, with Lieutenant Razak in the picture. Rico drops the picture onto the lake]
- Pvt. Robert Higgins: It was day 212, and sunrise had long since passed, but we figured that the L. T. would understand.