Nobody cares about the new guys. They don't even want to know your name.
6 seconds sound clip from the Platoon movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:10:54 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- The hardest thing I think I've ever done is go on point. Three times this week.
- I'm so tired. We get up at 5:00 a.m., hump all day, camp around 4:00 or 5:00, dig a foxhole, eat.
- Then put out an all-night ambush or a three-man listening post in the jungle.
- It's scary, 'cause nobody tells me how to do anything 'cause I'm new.
- Nobody cares about the new guys. They don't even want to know your name.
- The unwritten rule is a new guy's life isn't worth as much 'cause he hasn't put his time in yet.
- So, maybe you sleep three, four hours a night, but you don't really sleep.
- I don't think I can keep this up for a year, Grandma.
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