Hard Knox (1984 TV Movie)

Red West: Thomas 'Top' Tuttle

Quotes 

• Jessi Richards : You yell louder and more often than any person...

  Thomas 'Top' Tuttle : I do not yell! I simply communicate in a tone of voice that ensures I will not be misquoted, misunderstood, or ignored!

  Jessi Richards : That's what I said. You yell a lot.

  Thomas 'Top' Tuttle : You listen up, new cadet, Congress might have put you here but that don't give you the license to give me lectures on the evils of nicotine or...

  Jessi Richards : Congress didn't put me here... My grandmother did.

  Thomas 'Top' Tuttle : I'll tell you one thing, I do no like kids that talk like adults... they make me nervous! So you take it on the heel and toe, young lady, and get back to your company area... ON THE DOUBLE!

• Thomas 'Top' Tuttle : What are you doing, Cadet Captain Pesco?

  Gary Pascoe : Teaching the cadets to march, sir!

  Thomas 'Top' Tuttle : No no no no no no... That isn't what you're doing. 31 years in the Marine corps, I know what marching is and this. is NOT. MARCHING! God in Heaven may know what you people are doing, but *I* do NOT!