1. They must run five miles.
   Their heads are shaved.
2. They are assigned to their bunks.
   They are given nicknames.

"Full Metal Jacket" opens with a scene in which the newly-minted Marines have their heads shaved. This is our first look at the film's major characters as they solemnly watch their hair fall to the floor.

1. Fort Knox, Kentucky
   Fort Benning, Georgia
2. Parris Island, South Carolina
   Camp Pendleton, California

The recruits are assigned to Parris Island, a base in South Carolina. There they receive complete training, including physical fitness, weapons use and much more.

1. Punches him in the stomach
   Hits him with a rifle butt
2. Forces him to do push ups
   Chokes him

In their first encounter, no one gets off to a worse start with Hartman than the newly-christened Pyle. When he seems to be smiling and can't stop, Hartman chokes him until he nearly passes out.

1. Sleep with their rifles
   Sleep on the floor
2. Sleep on plywood boards
   Stay up all night

Hartman lectures the men about the importance of their rifles, ordering them to sleep with the weapons. He even demands that they give their rifles girls' names.

1. Make him run with his pants down
   Make him sleep naked
2. Make him suck his thumb
   Call him fat

Hartman is tough on all the recruits, but Pyle is his favorite whipping boy. Over the course of training, he forces him to run with his pants down and suck his thumb. He also calls him fat, gay, and much more.

1. Joker
   Cowboy
2. Animal Mother
   Snowball

The recruit Hartman names Joker emerges as one of the group's leaders and most promising Marines. Hartman assigns Pyle to the squad led by Joker, ordering him to take Pyle under his wing and help him improve.

1. Doritos
   A jelly donut
2. Pizza
   Cigarettes

Pyle seems in deeper trouble than ever when Hartman finds a jelly donut in his footlocker. Rather than punishing Pyle, however, Hartman adopts a new tactic. Every time Pyle makes a mistake, the entire platoon will be punished, but Pyle will not.

1. Soap wrapped in towels
   Their fists
2. The butts of their guns
   Brass knuckles

The recruits are not too happy when Hartman begins punishing them for Pyle's mistakes. In retaliation, they attack him during the night and pummel him with bars of soap wrapped in towels.

1. Defend freedom
   Wage war
2. Fight for America
   Kill

Hartman's job is to toughen up his recruits and he takes it seriously. Among his goals is to make them war-tough, including indoctrinating them in the idea that their job is killing.

1. Joker
   Jesus
2. Hartman
   Pyle

Hartman insists that his troops be God-fearing Christians, so when Christmas comes, he takes it a step further by having them sing Happy Birthday to Jesus.

1. He talks to his rifle.
   He can't figure out how to put on his uniform.
2. He forgets the words to the Marine Hymn.
   He begins laughing when Hartman talks.

Pyle suddenly makes a significant turn-around and becomes almost a model Marine, but all is not well. Joker begins to get concerned when he sees Pyle talking to his rifle and starts to keep a closer eye on him.

1. Infantry
   Medical corps
2. Journalism
   Intelligence

While most of the recruits, including Cowboy and Pyle, are assigned to infantry units, Joker is going a different route. He is assigned to Basic Military Journalism, where he will serve as a writer covering the war and other issues for military communications.

1. In the bathroom
   On top of a watch tower
2. Standing over Hartman's bed
   In the mess hall

Joker finds Pyle in the bathroom and his mental breakdown has escalated. Pyle is loading his rifle with live ammunition and talking erratically, eventually awakening the entire platoon.

1. Joker
   Cowboy
2. Hartman
   Snowball

When Hartman confronts Pyle and demands that he turn over his rifle, Pyle shoots him dead. To Joker's horror, he then puts the end of the rifle into his mouth and shoots himself.

1. Maggots
   Ladies
2. Cockroaches
   Scumbags

Hartman spares no mercy when hurling insults at the men he is charged with training. Maggots, dumbasses, ladies, scumbags . . . if there's a way to insult them, he'll find it.

1. Writer
   Photographer
2. Editor
   Publisher

When Joker begins working with his journalism unit, he meets fellow journalist Rafterman, who is a photographer. The two are often paired together on assignments.

1. Stars and Bars
   Marines Daily
2. Stars and Stripes
   Rank and File

In real life, as in the movie, Stars and Stripes is the military's newspaper. It reports on all matters concerning the United States Armed Forces, including reports from the field, such as those Joker and Rafterman file.

1. Ann-Margret
   Mary Tyler Moore
2. Farrah Fawcett
   Cher

Although he is a trained combat photographer, Rafterman's editor gives him the assignment of meeting Ann-Margret when she arrives, and following her throughout her visit. Not a bad gig!

1. The ability to see a very long distance
   A look indicating you've seen serious combat
2. A football metaphor
   A look soldiers give women they want to sleep with

As Joker talks with his fellow Marines in their barracks, Rafterman says he wants to go into combat and Joker indicates that he has already seen combat and wants to go back. Others doubt him, saying he lacks the thousand-yard stare, a look soldiers develop after they've seen the real horrors of war.

1. Hamburger Hill
   Tet Offensive
2. Khe Sahn
   Easter Offensive

During an editorial meeting earlier, there had been a ​discussion about whether the North Vietnamese would break the ceasefire then taking place during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year holiday. Those with more experience doubted it would happen but an attack ensues that turns out to be the beginning of the massive Tet Offensive.

1. Fake captain's bars
   A Nixon campaign button
2. A peace symbol
   A Hell's Angels emblem

Although he is a Marine in the middle of a war zone, Joker wears a peace sign on his uniform lapel. In sharp contrast, he has also written "Born to Kill" on his helmet.

1. Guns down civilians
   Targets enemy troops
2. Talks about his childhood
   Uses Rafterman's camera to take photos

During a bumpy helicopter trip to Hue that has Rafterman feeling queasy, the chopper's doorgunner gleefully shoots people on the ground below. Rather than aiming specifically for enemy soldiers, he fires indiscriminately at men, women and children who are fleeing.

1. USC
   Penn State
2. Florida State
   Notre Dame

When Joker and Rafterman arrive in Hue, they approach a Marine named Schinoski and ask him to help them find the unit of Joker's old friend,​ Cowboy. It turns out that Schinoski is Cowboy's platoon commander, but he goes by the nickname of Touchdown, having played football at Notre Dame. This delights Joker.

1. To kill as many Vietcong as possible
   To meet exotic people and kill them
2. To serve his country proudly
   To experience Asia

While others give more serious answers, Joker lives up to his nickname in his interview. He tells the interviewer that he came to Vietnam to meet exotic people and then kill them.

1. Touchdown
   Cowboy
2. Joker
   Animal Mother

The battle is a bloody one with many casualties, including several from Cowboy's squad. The first of the familiar characters to be gunned down is squadron commander, Touchdown.

1. Warthog Squad
   Lusthog Squad
2. Hogbreath Squad
   Hogwarts Squad

Like creating nicknames for individual soldiers, units also go by special designations they develop for themselves. Cowboy's group calls itself the Lusthog Squad.

1. They are commanded to go to a different area.
   Cowboy disagrees with his orders and disobeys them.
2. They are lost.
   They are driven back by the Vietcong.

Things start to go awry when Eightball consults his map and tells Cowboy that apparently they took a wrong turn at the last checkpoint and are not where they are supposed to be. As Eightball tries to scout the area, he is wounded by a sniper.

1. Joker and Animal Mother
   Doc Jay and Animal Mother
2. Doc Jay and Joker
   Joker and Rafterman

As Eightball lies wounded in the middle of a compound, Doc Jay runs out to try to save him. After he is shot as well, Animal Mother disobeys Cowboy's orders and also goes out. He is the only one to survive.

1. Behind a low stone wall
   Under a truck
2. In the window of a burning building
   Behind a tank

There is a great deal of rubble at the scene, so it is impossible to tell where the sniper fire is coming from, making the situation extra dangerous for the troops. However, the audience knows that the gunfire is coming from an upper story of a burned out building that is still in flames.

1. Joker
   Cowboy
2. Animal Mother
   Rafterman

Although he is less experienced in combat, Joker discovers the sniper, a teenage girl. He tries to shoot her but his rifle jams.

1. They use enemy soldiers as human shields.
   They hold the sniper off with a barrage of gunfire.
2. They use a smoke shield.
   They go around to the back of the building.

In order to get to the building, the troops must go into some open areas where they are easy targets. By setting off a series of smoke bombs, they are able to work their way to the entrance.

1. Cowboy
   Rafterman
2. Animal Mother
   Joker

All the Marines have been well trained in combat, but Rafterman and Joker have been assigned to different roles. That makes it ironic that Rafterman, the photographer, is the first one who is able to shoot the sniper and wound her.

1. She wants them to kill her.
   She wants them to get a message to her family.
2. She wants them to spare her life.
   She wants them to find her brother.

The young girl tries to tell the men something in Vietnamese, but it takes them some time to understand that she is asking to be killed. While some are in favor of leaving her to die an agonizing death, Animal Mother, who is now in charge of the squadron, tells Joker to kill her. He hesitates for some time, but finally does it, thus developing the thousand-yard stare.

1. When the Saints Come Marching In
   Battle Hymn of the Republic
2. The Mickey Mouse Song
   Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It's Off to Work We Go

After the rigors of a battle in which numerous lives were lost and others were changed forever, the squadron finally marches toward camp. The song they sing? The Mickey Mouse Song.

1. Wooly Bully
   Louie Louie
2. Chapel of Love
   These Boots Are Made for Walking

"Full Metal Jacket" includes a number of familiar songs, including Wooly Bully, These Boots Are Made for Walking, Chapel of Love, Surfin' Bird, and Paint It Black. Not included is Louie Louie.