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Fleet Sergeant Ho
Private Recruit Breckenridge steps forward first to answer Sergeant Zim’s challenge of hand-to-hand combat on the first day of basic training. He’s large, tall, broad, and a former football player; he has a thick southern accent and a beautiful singing voice. Zim quickly defeats him, breaking his arm in the process, but Breckenridge doesn’t harbor ill-will towards the Sergeant, instead boasting that he’ll eventually beat the instructor. He dies in the Canadian Rockies while on a wilderness survival drill; after the other recruits find his body, he’s posthumously awarded the rank of Private First Class—the first in the class to be given rank—and buried with full honors.
Breckenridge Quotes in Starship Troopers
The Starship Troopers quotes below are all either spoken by Breckenridge or refer to Breckenridge. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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Dillinger belonged to us, he was still on our rolls. Even though we didn’t want him, even though we should never have had him, even though we would have been happy to disclaim him, he was a member of our regiment. We couldn’t brush him off and let a sheriff a thousand miles away handle it. If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his dog himself; he doesn’t hire a proxy who may bungle it.
The regimental records said that Dillinger was ours, so taking care of him was our duty.
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Breckenridge Quotes in Starship Troopers
The Starship Troopers quotes below are all either spoken by Breckenridge or refer to Breckenridge. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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Dillinger belonged to us, he was still on our rolls. Even though we didn’t want him, even though we should never have had him, even though we would have been happy to disclaim him, he was a member of our regiment. We couldn’t brush him off and let a sheriff a thousand miles away handle it. If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his dog himself; he doesn’t hire a proxy who may bungle it.
The regimental records said that Dillinger was ours, so taking care of him was our duty.
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