When she tells him it was a lie and she doesn't want to marry a non-airman, he hangs himself in a motel shower stall.
They would have received free housing, free healthcare, travel allowances, subsidized groceries at the PX, free on base schooling for the kid, access to the Officers Club, not to mention veterans benefits and size able retirement benefits had he made it to twenty years. Had he commissioned into the Navy, then married Lynette, his status as a naval officer would have allowed them to live quite comfortably. Didn't Think This Through: Sid resigning from OCS when Lynette insinuates that he knocked her up is actually quite a foolhardy decision.The Determinator: Casey Seeger, who forgoes weekend leave just to do more exercises so she can pass the obstacle course.Foley successfully resuscitates a trainee who nearly drowns during the dunker crash-escape simulation. It doesn't work though, as Sid was already dead.Combat Pragmatist: During an impromptu martial arts bout with the much younger Mayo, Sgt Foley isn't afraid to fight dirty in order to gain the upper hand.
Foley was originally written as a short white Southerner. Coitus Ensues: Right in the middle of the film is a rather lengthy sex scene between Mayo and Paula.However, this is averted in most of the UK Channel 4/ More 4 airings of the film while they currently have the rights the "napalm sticks to kids" variant is retained. Foley's cadence during the cadets' training (".Puget debs.") was dubbed over an earlier real-life Marine cadence about napalming children.
Despite the obvious tensions, the brawl doesn't happen until everyone is outside, and it ends after one well-timed roundhouse kick. She confesses to the hoax when he resigns from the Navy to do so, which she didn't want.
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, where this movie is set, is in actuality, just a base for anti-submarine patrol airplanes such as the P-3 Orion. The location of Aviation Officer Candidate School is wrong.As a general rule, Gunnery Sergeant Foley should be referred to by that rank, or by the accepted informal shorthand "Gunny." In Navy OCS, however, the proper term of address for a drill instructor of any rank is "Sergeant Instructor." The movie gets it wrong in either case by referring to him as simply "Sergeant.".But he falls far short of Foley's standards for character, who makes it clear he'd rather pass the girl who can't make it over the climbing wall than the ethically elastic Mayo. Mayo leaps every hurdle-from the obstacle course to shining belt buckles-with ease. Despite the name, the movie is not the Trope Namer for the Officer and a Gentleman trope.