The machinist, the one they called Chef, was from New Orleans. He was wrapped too tight for Vietnam. Probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans.
11 seconds sound clip from the Apocalypse Now movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:21:09 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- And that was okay. I needed the air and the time.
- Only problem was, I wouldn't be alone.
- The crew were mostly just kids. Rock 'n' rollers with one foot in their graves.
- Lance, on the forward .50s, was a famous surfer from the beaches south of LA.
- To look at him, you wouldn't believe he'd ever fired a weapon in his life.
- Then there was Phillips, the Chief.
- It might have been my mission, but it sure as shit was the Chief's boat.
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