A prostitute offers her services to soldiers including fellatio. The men accept. Nothing is shown.

A man is seen looking at a nude magazine, breasts shown briefly. (This is also very hard to see)

A soldier's helmet reads "I'm hard"

One of the drills involve recruits grabbing their crotches while chanting "this is for fun"

Drill instructor Hartman hurls crude insults at his recruits.

People attempting to flee Vietnam are brutally gunned down from a helicopter.

Several members of the Viet Cong are fatally executed from a far distance in a destroyed city.

A viet cong firing squad ambushes a military base. An intense gun battle ensues between the marine corps and the viet cong. No one is shot, there is just a lot of shooting and a few explosions.

Violence: 8/10 Strong violence (Some graphic)

Lots of very graphic violence.

A man shoots himself. Blood and chunks of his head splatter.

A man commits suicide by shooting him self with a rifle.

Gny. Sgt. Hartman in particular uses very strong language.

Fuck, shit, ass, whore, and cocksucker are used alongside various racial slurs.

Alcohol and tobacco use.

The first 45 minutes of the film is intense because of boot camp training, however it can be bit funny at times due to Gy. Sgt. Hartman's vulgarity.