Taking Chance (2009 TV Movie)

Kevin Bacon: LtCol Mike Strobl

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• LtCol Mike Strobl : [voiceover]  Chance Phelps was wearing his St. Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. I watched them carry him the final fifteen yards. I felt that as long as he was still moving, he was somehow still alive. When they put him down in his grave, he'd stopped moving. I didn't know Chance Phelps before he died. But today, I miss him.

• LtCol Mike Strobl : I stayed home. I was trained to fight. If I'm not over there, what am I? Those guys, guys like Chance... they're Marines.

  Charlie Fitts : And you think you're not? Want to be with your family every night - you think you have to justify that? You'd better stop right there, sir. You've brought Chance home. You're his witness now. Without a witness, they just disappear.

• LtCol Mike Strobl : [Noticing Annie had typed "HOT soldier" into her phone]  Actually, it's Marine.

• [Last Line] 

  LtCol Mike Strobl : Hey, Hi I'm home. Come here. Group Hug. How you guys doing?

• Rich Brewer : Nobody in my family's in the military and none of my friends. But I thought about joining up. Yeah, but I was too chickenshit.

  [chuckles, then silence] 

  Rich Brewer : Sorry, I mean too chicken.

  LtCol Mike Strobl : You can say shit.

  Rich Brewer : Oh, cool. And plus the whole haircut thing. I'm in a band and, you know, you gotta keep it long to keep the ladies happy.

• [First Line] 

  LtCol Mike Strobl : Once per quarter we'll give you a run down on battalion and squadron level readiness and today's briefing will focus on First Marine Division.