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Yeah, but it wasn't a real order, was it? After all, it's peacetime. He wasn't being asked to secure a hill or advance on a beachhead.

10 seconds sound clip from the A Few Good Men movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:35:13 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- A crime? What crime did he commit?

- He brought a hungry guy some food. What crime did he commit?

- He disobeyed an order.

- And because he did, because he exercised his own set of values, because he made a decision about the welfare of a Marine that was in conflict with your order, he was punished, is that right?

- Lance Corporal Dawson disobeyed an order.

- Yeah, but it wasn't a real order, was it? After all, it's peacetime. He wasn't being asked to secure a hill or advance on a beachhead.

- I mean, surely a Marine of his intelligence can be trusted to determine on his own which are the important orders and which orders might, say, be morally questionable?

- Can he? Can he determine on his own which orders he's going to follow?

- No, he cannot.

- A lesson he learned after the Curtis Bell incident, am I right?

- I would think so.

- You know so, don't you?

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A Few Good Men Sound Clip

A Few Good Men (1992) cover

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Actors: Tom Cruise (Lt. Daniel Kaffee), Jack Nicholson (Col. Nathan Jessup), Demi Moore (Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway), Kevin Bacon (Capt. Jack Ross), Kevin Pollak (Lt. Sam Weinberg)

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