Max has to go in for his physical, as his draft number came up. Despite his attempts to get out of the draft by claiming to be “A cross-dressing homosexual pacifist with a spot on my lung,” he is confirmed and will be sent to Vietnam. The army recruiters seem to take a sadistic joy with taking the physicals, with the physical contact taking on a fetishistic and sexual-assault-like quality. The scene ends with a tragic and surreal scene, where the new recruits are struggling under the weight of the Statue of Liberty, symbolizing the cost they are about to pay for their country in a pointless war.