You'd be gone a couple of months, maybe six, after which, if you're not dead, you'd have your choice of assignments in Special Ops.
6 seconds sound clip from the Clear and Present Danger movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:28:33.411 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Just about finished here, aren't you, Sergeant?
- Looking forward to taking some leave with that young wife and kids?
- I don't have any young wife and kids, sir.
- Who are you, sir, if you don't mind my asking?
- The New York Times is reporting that you and Hardin were good friends. Is that true?
- No, not quite. We weren't good friends. We were lifelong friends.
- I said that. I said that. I told him to say that.
- What?
- I didn't say anything. Yeah, but you're thinking something.
- No.
- I was just distracted by how much trouble you were having with your ensemble today.
- Well, it's not every day you have to look trustworthy.
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