Basic Training/Transcript

Cutscene
Joe Miller: I joined up, rather than wait to be drafted. I figured if I was going to have to fight, it'd be better fighting alongside the best there was. That's why I joined the Marines. They sent us to North Carolina, some farm place that they'd turned into a training camp. 2nd Division, U.S. Marine Corps. (Laughs) Some soldier I was going to be. Our first day in camp, and I forgot my rifle.
Gameplay
[Basic Training]
[North Carolina]
[June 6th, 1942]
[Forgot my rifle...]
The player takes control of Private Miller in the Marine training camp in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Corporal Polonsky and other Marines are sitting and talking.
US Marine: Hey Mac, what's the scuttlebutt on the new honcho?
Polonsky: I hear the bastard's tough as nails.
US Marine: Great, another A.J.-squared-away.
Polonsky: Stow it! Here he comes.
Sergeant Roebuck arrives in a Jeep.
US Marine: Here are the new recruits, Sergeant Roebuck.
The Marines form up. Roebuck takes roll call.
US Marine: Ten-hut!
Roebuck: Okay, let's see what we've got. Sound off. Turner.
Turner: Aye-aye, sir.
Roebuck: Polonsky.
Polonsky: Aye, sir.
Roebuck: Miller. Where is your weapon, Marine? Get over to that table and pick up a rifle, Miller. Double time!
The Marines move to the firing range.
Roebuck: Miller! Get over here and shoot these targets!
Miller picks up an M1 Garand rifle.
Roebuck: Okay Miller, shoot the helmets off the scarecrows.
Miller shoots a helmet.
Roebuck: Remember, anyone can point and shoot, but if you want to zero your rifle like a warrior, you'll want to look straight down the sight and snap in.
If Miller shoots an orange on the tree in the distance.
Roebuck: Wow! Excellent fruit-killing skills you've got there, Miller. Now stop messing around.
Miller shoots the rest of the helmets.
Roebuck: Alright Marines, move to the close-quarters range. Follow me!
The Marines move to an enclosed stable near the firing range.
Roebuck: You're up first, Miller. Pick up a Thompson from the table.
Miller takes a Thompson M1A1 submachine gun.
Roebuck: Okay, on three, I want you to move through these stables and take out the targets. One, two, three, go! Go! Go!
Miller moves through, shoots the target dummies and emerges on the other end.
Roebuck: Not too shabby, Miller. We might make you a warrior yet!
The squad moves over to the grenade range, facing a derelict barn.
Roebuck: Okay, let's see how you handle grenades. Go grab some from the ordinance table over there.
Miller picks up four Mk 2 Grenades from the table.
Roebuck: See that window on the ground floor? Toss a frag grenade through it.
Miller throws a grenade through the window.
Roebuck: And now another!
Miller tosses another grenade through a window to the right of the first.
Roebuck: Smoke grenades next. You'll use them to conceal your movements on the battlefield and confuse the enemy. Take a few and throw one through the top-floor window of that barn.
Miller picks up four Smoke Grenades and throws one through the second-story window of the barn.
Roebuck: Okay, that covers grenades. Now follow me to the assault course!
The Marines move on to the obstacle course.
Roebuck: Okay, time to recap some basic combat maneuvers, just like in TBS. Miller, you will demonstrate. Don't worry, Miller, I'll be there every step of the way.
Miller ducks through a tunnel.
Roebuck: Get a move on, Miller! Under the net, and through the obstacles! Go! Go!
Miller clears the rest of the obstacle course.
Roebuck: Don't think I'm letting you off with forgetting your rifle, Miller. One lap around the hill! I'll be waiting at the end.
Miller exits the course and approaches a hillside where a combat exercise is occurring. A Marine grabs him and throws him into a puddle of water under a tunnel he needs to crawl through. The screen goes black.
US Marine: Stop flailing around, will ya? Hey Fletch, I think this one's drowning. Grab him!
[Call of Duty: World at War: Final Fronts]
Miller (voiceover): We thought we were going to win the war all by ourselves. We were wrong.
[Tokyo Express]
[Guadalcanal]
[February 9th, 1943]
[Stopping the Tokyo Express]
Roebuck: I want suppressing fire on that hill! Someone get Miller out of that mud!
The player takes control of Private Miller on Guadalcanal, facing a Japanese stronghold alongside Roebuck's squad. Polonsky picks Miller up from the mud.
Polonsky: Come on, buddy, we've got you covered!
Roebuck: Anderson, I want some flame on that bunker. Get up that hill and get on it! Miller, you go with him.
Anderson: We've got no cover! Use the smoke grenades!
Roebuck: Polonsky, get some smoke up there! Anderson, Miller, when the smoke hits, find cover near the top! Keep moving, Marines, get up there!
The Marines assault the hill. Anderson fires his flamethrower.
Roebuck: Stay out of the way of the fire!
Polonsky throws smoke grenades.
Roebuck: Okay, we've got smoke! Go! Go! Go!
The Marines fight their way up the hill.
Roebuck: Get some fire in there!
Anderson begins burning the main bunker.
Polonsky: Roast, you sons of bitches!
Roebuck: Knock it off, Polonsky! Miller, get over there and clear it out! The rest of you, stack up and wait for my signal.
Miller and Anderson move around the bunker to the right, finding a battery of Japanese Type 92 70mm Battalion Guns.
Roebuck: Miller, take out the mortar crew.
The Marines dispatch the Japanese crews. The squad finds a tunnel entrance in the hillside ahead, obscured with foliage.
Polonsky: Hey Sergeant, I got a tunnel down here!
Roebuck: Anderson, burn it out! Everyone, stay back!
Anderson burns the entrance.
Roebuck: Nice work! Anderson, go and check it out!
Anderson enters the bunker.
Anderson: Tripwire!
Anderson is killed by a Japanese booby trap.
Roebuck: Anderson! Damn it. Miller, pick up the flamethrower.
Miller picks up Anderson's M2 Flamethrower and enters the tunnel complex with the rest of Roebuck's squad.
Roebuck: Get in there, Marine! Go! Go! Go!
The Marines clear a corridor.
Roebuck: Polonsky, take care of that room.
Polonsky opens a door and tosses a grenade inside.
Polonsky: All clear!
The squad clears another room. Private Price tries to kick open a door only to be gunned down through the door. Polonsky opens it with his Thompson butt.
Roebuck: Take covering positions!
Polonsky: The bastard's over there!
Roebuck: Get in there, move it!
The squad clears several more rooms of Japanese soldiers and exits the caves. A flaming F4U Corsair is seen making a crash landing overhead.
US Marine: Up there!
Roebuck: Damn it, that's one of our birds! He's ditching! I'll tell you right now, until we take out that artillery, we can just forget about air support.
The squad moves down a path into a village of thatched huts occupied by the Japanese.
Roebuck: This must be Tenaro village. We need to cut through this mess and take out those AA guns.
Polonsky: Japanese leveled the village. Those sneaky bastards are using the ruins for cover.
Roebuck: They don't give up easy, do they? Keep pushing 'em back, boys!
The squad engages the Japanese defenders. An M4 Sherman flame tank arrives and starts burning the Japanese positions.
Roebuck: Take covering positions! Miller, get out of the way of the fire!
Polonsky: Oh yeah, now they'll get theirs!
Roebuck: Let's go, men! Move! Move! Move!
The squad moves through a burning hut, finding a Japanese Triple Type 96 25mm AA Gun protected by infantry on the other side.
Roebuck: They're dug in deep, but we got to get through them to take out that artillery.
They clear the area around the gun.
Roebuck: Stick a charge on that AA, Miller.
Miller sets an explosive charge and takes out the gun. Heading to the beach, the squad clears a command hut and looks out at ocean on the other side. Japanese troops are seen using rowboats to escape the island and join their fleet offshore.
Roebuck: Look at those ships, they're bugging out. Damn! Would you look at that? Bet they've been sneaking off the island for days.
The squad moves east along the shoreline and into another village, engaging the Japanese defenders. A Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun in a fortified hut pins them down in the ruins of a house. Private Archer, the radioman, joins them.
Archer: I think they've got us pinned down here, Sergeant!
Roebuck: Keep your heads down!
Archer: Command says 161st has Shermans inbound to our location!
Sherman tanks roll forward, taking out the machine gun nest with their flamethrowers.
Polonsky: Looks like the cavalry's arrived, boys!
Archer: We got armor!
The squad clears the rest of the village and heads through a path in the hillside to the next area. They take positions in the foundation of a house. The last Triple 25 AA gun can be seen in a fortified position across an open expanse of beach.
Polonsky: Sarge, they're dug in just too damn tight there!
Roebuck: Damn right! Now let's finish this! Miller, get on that machine gun and give us some covering fire!
Miller mounts a Type 92 machine gun in the house. An extended firefight ensues. A Sherman destroys the last AA gun. The screen fades to black and reopens with the squad on the coast watching F4U Corsairs bomb and destroy a Japanese ship off the coast while a Sherman carrying Marine infantry rolls up.
Polonsky: Goodnight!
Roebuck: Outstanding, Miller! Tokyo Express, out of action.
Mission ends.