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Let's NDP here.
We're gonna NDP here.
Eriksson, hold up.
Set up claymores
on the left flank.
Did that sound
hollow to you, man?
What?
Wait.
We could be standing right over their
tunnels right now, couldn't we?
Right under us
at this very second...
...could be VC tunnels.
- ***!
- What was that?
Fix that sound!
- I hate *** mortars.
- Fix that sound, sergeant.
They're after somebody else.
Who are they after?
- Is it 3rd Platoon?
- Captain Hill says Alpha'***.
- Do they know we're here?
- What do you say, Meserve?
- I'll get it to you ASAP.
- Sergeant Hawthorne!
Set out security to the flanks,
front and rear.
But not too far so they
get separated from us.
Eriksson, take the right flank.
Call Superman 0-2.
We need a fix on the tube.
We'll adjust by the sound.
Superman 0-2, Superman 0-2...
- What the *** is going on?
- Cease fire!
I saw a ***, sarge.
One of them *** from the ville.
- You recognizing people?
- I saw him!
The tube's kicking *** on Alpha.
*** this!
The tube's got a fix on us!
Oh, Christ!
They found us!
They're walking them in on us!
Superman 0-2, Superman 0-2.
Let's move!
The tube's got a fix on us.
Left flank! Move on!
Silent Twin 0-2, out.
Go! Go!
Oh, Jesus! Oh, Jesus!
Jesus Christ! Oh, God!
- Where's Hawthorne?
- Up this way.
Eriksson's on right flank.
He ain't in yet.
This war's getting old, Mr. Meserve.
Here comes arty!
***!
Oh, ***!
Oh, Jesus!
Okay, Brownie, you get up there with
them. Keep your *** together.
My *** is forever together.
I'm an armor-plated ***!
Oh, ***! Help me!
Oh, ***!
Somebody help me!
What's wrong with my arm?
Where's my arm?
- I got something for you.
- You gotta find my arm.
- We gotta move!
- Calm down, soldier!
Help me! Somebody help me! Help!
Here's your arm. Here's your arm.
Somebody help me!
Help! Help!
Help me! Somebody!
Sarge, I need help!
Sarge, help me! I'm stuck!
Oh, I'm stuck. Help me.
- Thank God!
- Pull!
Oh, ***!
I'll put some tracers up there.
- Back me up with the thumper, okay?
- Right.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
Get some, ***!
Get some! ***!
Yeah, you ***!
Yeah.
Some mad ***
minute, huh, cherry?
- We're getting too short for this.
- We ain't short yet.
Thirty days and a wake-up.
We damn near invisible.
You're gonna DEROS out of
this jungle and these clothes.
Put me on that Freedom Bird
and I figure I'm short...
...and maybe
the ***'s gonna crash.
Can you imagine that?
Escape from Nam...
...to die an airline fatality.
- Never happen, cherry.
You survive the Nam,
you get to live forever.
How long you been here?
- Three weeks.
- Three weeks?
You're breaking my heart.
You know, Meserve,
I've been thinking.
Maybe it's time we stopped
balling these ***.
We might end up
home diseased.
Dinky dau, man.
The Nam's a trip.
First you don't know ***,
then you don't give a ***.
I mean, you care, but it's just
humpbacked and crooked, you know?
The cherry'll get wasted
because he don't know nothing.
We'll end up in peril because
we don't care about nothing.
- I care, Brown.
- Sure you do.
It's just humpbacked
and crooked, you know?
Clark...
...you and Hatcher and Eriksson
spread out here.
Stay alert.
And don't get lost.
Brownie, let's didi.
Hershey bar number one! Good
stuff. Take a big bite.
Check out this sad ***, man.
Sui?
It's mango.
Quit begging. They don't want your
candy bar. Give it to me.
Cam on ong very much.
Don't eat anything they give you.
Go back where you're supposed to be.
You want to die horribly?
- No, sarge.
- You were gonna eat it?
These people are confused.
Are they Cong or not?
- They're schizophrenic.
- Depends on who scared them last.
You eat some razor blades or
glass in something they give you...
...what are you dead of?
- Stupidity.
It's a rog, Brown.
Much affirmed.
Yes, indeed.
We're overjoyed to have traveled
11,000 miles...
...to assist them in their struggle
to upgrade themselves.
Every one of them is
old or kids. That ain't good.
This is a retirement ville.
Sort of like Florida.
I wasn't gonna eat that.
I didn't want to be rude.
- Rude?
- Yeah.
I'll smack you upside the
head for talking that foolishness!
You do something rude, you say,
"Sorry about that. "
For example, you
strangle their chickens...
...cop their rice, or
barbecue their *** ***...
...you say, "Sorry about that. "
Let me hear you say it.
"Sorry about that. "
Sorry about that.
I got something for us, sir.
We asked him which path was safe. One
day he says one, next day the other.
You VC? VC?
Number *** 10! VC?
- You number *** 10?
- No!
- You VC?
- VC, no!
All right! We got it!
Number one, old man.
I hope that ain't your
idea of fun, buddy.
This is some
piece of equipment!
Don't look like it to me.
Look like some tree got tangled up.
And this fool gonna tie it to his cow.
Do you know how
one of these things works?
Ain't you supposed to be
hauling water to your pals...
...instead of hanging out with
this ***?
- Yeah.
- So let's go, then.
Right. Okay. No, no, no.
All right. ***.
Sarge wants us together,
we best do it.
Don't you want to get home
for your own plowing?
- You're married, right?
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, come on, ***!
What the ***
was I talking about, man?
This some bad-*** Thai stick, man.
You got any babies?
That's what I was talking about.
- A little girl.
- A little girl?
Now ain't that my point?
What were you doing back there?
Sarge had to save you.
The ground opened up on me.
I'm hanging there. Half in,
half out of one of the tunnels.
Mortar rounds coming straight
at me. Boom, boom, boom!
- I couldn't believe it.
- Did you pee your pants?
- Don't be shy. Talk to me.
- I'm talking.
You ain't telling me nothing.
Your *** was stuck in a rabbit hole?
So, what happened?
- Man, come on.
- Come on.
Think of me as your priest.
- Lutherans don't have priests.
- Did you pee your pants?
If the sarge hadn't come back
for me, I sure would have.
Without sarge, you ain't
nothing but a sack of ***.
You ain't walking along
jiving with me.
You so much grief bagged and tagged
that your people moan all their lives.
Right, sarge?
Hatch!
- Hatcher!
- What?
You got 30 days to learn
what you can from me and Meserve.
Hatcher!
- Listen up.
- I'm listening.
We gonna DEROS and leave
Freedom Frontier...
One o'clock!
Behind you!
Oh, my God, I hit it!
Sarge!
All right, cease fire! Cease fire!
- I told you this place wasn't safe.
- The *** set us up!
Sarge, I'm in trouble, man.
I'm in trouble, sarge.
- It ain't nothing, Brownie.
- You sure, man?
It sure feels like something.
It feels bad, sarge.
It ain't nothing, man.
Eriksson, the sarge says
I'm gonna be okay, man.
Oh, yeah. No sweat, Brownie.
*** this ***, man!
*** this!
Let's go, let's go!
Come on, move it!
Sarge!
Look in my *** eyes!
I'm gonna hypnotize you!
You're fine.
I know it, man.
I know it.
I'm an armor-plated ***.
I'm an armor-plated ***.
I'm an armor-plated ***.
Sergeant! Sergeant Meserve, you're to
go two clicks back to the road.
APCs are there to
take you to Ap Thanh.
Take a truck back to Wolf.
The company's regrouping there.
- Is that understood?
- You better watch your back here.
This ville is ***.
They're harboring VC.
We'll bust some chops
before we leave.
- Don't you worry.
- Torch the *** place.
Hey, hey, there it is.
My rack, my rack!
So, what are you gonna do?
Get shitfaced and go hump
the brains out of some hos.
- I don't know. I'm too tired.
- Come on. Are we on duty or off?
Let me have a beer.
- No. You should have bought more.
- Give the guy a beer.
- They're mine.
- I'll give you 1000 pi.
- You should have thought ahead.
- 10,000 pi.
For one?
Oreos. I'll give you some cookies.
- I was hoping you were still around.
- Forget about it.
We just spent some time
in a combat zone.
The lieutenant had difficulty
getting his head out of his ***...
...and left us in the jungle
like a bunch of crazed ***.
- What happened to you guys?
- I don't think anybody knows.
- I just about got killed, though.
- What was that like?
I went nuts.
- You wanna shower?
- Later.
Come on, I want to shower.
Let's go shower.
Hey, sarge.
It's the sarge.
This ***, Clark,
bought one beer off me...
...for 10,000 pi.
Ain't that some ***?
Sarge, are we on duty or off?
- Off.
- ***-A.
We've been detailed a long-range
recon in the morning.
We're off till 2100.
Where we gonna go?
The lieutenant will brief me.
I'll brief you guys, 2100.
We're out of here
at 0600.
- We're off till then?
- Yeah.
Sarge, we're gonna take a shower.
What are you gonna do?
I'm gonna go into town and get laid.
What do you hear
about Brownie?
He's dead.
This place is ***.
I hate this *** place.
- They ought to blow it up and pave...
- ***-A.
Brownie could make me laugh, man.
And I like to *** laugh.
You know...
...I never knew a far-out spade dude
like Brownie before Brownie.
They shouldn't make you hump the
boonies when you're short.
They should send you home.
You'd be short when you were close
to where you didn't have to go.
- So what?
- So nobody'd want to go.
I don't want to go now.
They keep moving it back.
Pretty soon they wouldn't
send anybody here.
What's wrong with that?
What I'm saying is these *** ***
are ***, man!
They're lowlifes!
Every *** in that ville.
Every man, woman and child knew
about the *** mortars.
They knew about the snipers,
and they just let them zap Brownie.
They're slugs.
They're roaches, and total destruction
is the only way to deal with them.
Sorry, sarge. Passes are cancelled.
What?
- The ville's off-limits.
- What did he say?
- For how long?
- Indefinitely.
He's serious, man.
*** 'em.
- Watch it, sarge!
- Come on.
- ***...
- Take it easy.
That was easy!
- *** easy!
- What we gonna do?
Know what this ***'s about?
*** Cong is in town tonight.
Charlie's in the ***.
- No ***?
- Didn't you know?
Charlie's gotta get laid too.
He works hard killing us. Don't he?
What are we gonna do, sarge?
What are we gonna do?
*** it!
The Cong's getting laid.
And we're just...
It ain't fair, you know?
Am I talking?
I can't tell
if I'm talking or not.
Diaz, how you doing?
Do one of you guys got a Playboy
on you I can borrow?
- Jeez, on me?
- Yeah.
- I gotta find one.
- Somebody sent you a present.
This is Diaz.
He's Brown's replacement.
We're out of here in the morning
at 0500.
I want everyone carrying two frags.
Make sure you got smoke. Sit down.
Leave your vest. I don't want
any heat casualties.
Beyond that, wear what you want,
as long as it's charmed...
...as long as it's helped you survive.
Our destination is Hill 209
in the Tra Khuc Valley.
The hill's here.
There are caves,
there might be VC.
We're looking for tunnels, bunkers,
unmapped trails, whatever.
Now. The orders are we don't shoot
except in self-defense.
You get one of these ***
out in the open, you waste him.
We're leaving an hour early because
we detour 2000 meters to the south...
...to the ville of Nghia Hanh.
What we're gonna do is
requisition ourselves a girl.
A little portable R and R.
It'll break up the boredom,
keep up morale.
I want charmed people around me.
So bring your good-luck stuff.
Like this, sarge?
Does it feel lucky?
It looks lucky.
He really say that?
He wouldn't do it, would he?
Bring a girl?
Are you crazy?
As short as he is?
He is out of here
in less than 30 days.
So why did he say it?
I don't know. What did
the other guys think?
Everybody was joking.
Clark says:
"What's this, some new
addition to Lurp rations?"
Right. I mean,
some broad in your pack.
You see how nuts that sounds?
That'll never happen, G.I.
That is the one, sarge.
She's the pretty one.
Take the pretty one.
- Get over here, you *** ***!
- Jesus God!
What's going on?
You guys done this before?
No.
This is unbelievable.
I didn't think he meant it, Hatch.
Did you?
I don't know, man.
I want to be out of
here by first light.
What do you want?
What do you want?
You want her to have this?
All right, no sweat. No big thing.
She can have it! Shut up, ***!
Let's get out of here, sarge.
Get some rest. You're upset.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
We're gonna win her heart and mind.
If she's got one.
Hey, sarge.
A few more clicks, we'll rest.
- I thought you were kidding.
- I was serious as a heart attack.
That's what I mean. This is
kidnapping, ain't it, sarge?
Take the point.
- Go relieve Hatch on point.
- Why?
You got the point.
- Go!
- Yeah. Right.
Hatch, slow up. I'm
supposed to relieve you.
It's just like Genghis Khan, man.
That's what I was thinking.
- Ever heard of Genghis Khan?
- What?
- What are you talking about?
- Meserve is unbelievable.
I mean, what we're doing...
...it's fantastic.
Why didn't we think of it before?
- This is nuts.
- It ain't nuts. It's what armies do.
- We ain't Genghis Khan.
- You're the one who's nuts.
It's the 20th century, man.
We're supposed to be here to help.
I'm definitely gonna *** this ***.
What's the matter with you?
Come here.
Come here for a second. Come here.
You all right? You all right?
That was some hump, huh?
You want some gum?
I'm not gonna hurt you.
Do I have to mess with her?
Diaz...
No, man.
Hey, come here.
Come here, somebody.
Somebody, come here, quick.
- Come here.
- Check it out, Clark.
- Is that a farmer or VC?
- Where?
- In the pool.
- What is it, Clark?
- It's a rock, I think.
- It's moving.
The bushes are moving,
the rock ain't.
- What are you doing?
- He said to shoot them in the open.
It's a water buffalo, sarge.
Dumb, very *** dumb.
Aspirin. Number one. Okay.
Hey, sarge.
We on track?
Just follow the red Crayola line.
Two and a half hours
and we'll be there.
Give me a minute
on this thing we're doing.
I mean, what we're doing.
What are we doing, sarge?
We have a VC suspect.
Is that what you mean?
She's a VC *** and we're
gonna have fun with her.
She's just a farm girl.
You're the cherry here,
right? So lighten up.
- Let me carry the weight.
- What's the problem, sarge?
He don't think our
VC *** is a VC ***.
You've been in town.
They'll sell their children.
These people were
sleeping in their ***.
He got the wrong
outlook on this thing.
You got the wrong outlook.
- What are you talking about?
- She's a VC.
- She ain't.
- I'm telling you, Eriksson.
This ain't a VC. Clark ain't.
Hatcher, he ain't no VC.
Diaz ain't no VC.
I ain't. I ain't no *** VC.
Now this?
This here's a VC.
And you?
You I don't know about.
You ain't cutting
yourself this slack, man.
You ain't *** your ruck,
hump mine.
- Why, man?
- Just put it on.
Hey, sarge!
Hey! I'm a corporal, Hatcher.
This is a direct order.
You hump my ruck.
Oh, man. What an ***!
It's all clear, sarge.
The stream's 30 meters
down. Plenty of water.
Get her inside. Get your
ruck off her, Hatcher.
We'll use this place as our C.P.
Eriksson, you and Diaz get
the chow and ammo stored.
Clark, you and Hatcher come with me.
I ain't gonna *** nobody.
You gotta back me up.
- I'll back you.
- Swear it.
I do, man. I promise.
You gotta back me too.
You got it, man.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
You're cut. You're hurt.
Let me fix it, okay?
No, no, give.
We'll get it clean.
I'm not going to hurt you.
Shh! Come here.
Stay still.
See?
It's going to be okay.
Okay, I'm your friend.
I'm your friend.
Mind if I pull up a chair?
Go ahead.
C- rats, huh? What you got there?
- Franks and beans.
- Army don't want to surprise us.
Leave that to the ***.
How you doing?
I'm all right.
I'm sorry I jumped on you back there.
We're out here with the Cong
hanging in every tree...
...waiting to grease us.
*** six hours of the worst bush.
*** should be fighting to get
out of here, not to keep it.
Six hours of the ugliest
snakes and spiders.
All we have is each other. Right?
Yeah.
Come here.
I don't want any problems with you.
I'm counting on you in particular.
I don't know what's going on here.
We're gonna...
...interrogate the prisoner.
This isn't right.
We ain't supposed to do this.
Don't *** with me.
You're taking your turn.
I ain't raping nobody.
You're saying no to me?
You ain't hotshot enough to say no.
***! ***!
Think you're standing up to me?
I ain't doing it. No way.
Don't you like girls? You ain't
got a pair? Is that your problem?
- Sarge?
- He don't want to ball the ***.
- Chickenshit.
- Is that it?
Is that your problem?
- No.
- So, what is it?
- Maybe he's ***.
- You a ***?
- Is that it?
- No!
So, what is it?
Everybody else is up for this.
What are you looking at Diaz for?
He's with the program.
You got a problem?
- Hell, no.
- Okay.
Would you stop looking at Diaz?
Oh, wait a minute.
Maybe he is a ***.
Maybe Eriksson's a homosexual.
We got us two gals.
Is Eriksson a ***?
- I don't know.
- I think so.
He's chickenshit.
I'm gonna cut his heart out.
How we gonna count on you?
You're a VC sympathizer.
You could get killed real easy.
Somebody stumbles...
They don't mean to shoot you.
Friendly *** casualty.
I mean, a body bag's a body bag.
Your mama and your daddy are crying.
- He's dead.
- What?
- My father's dead.
- Nobody cares about your history.
You're taking your turn.
In there.
Maybe when I'm done with her,
I'm gonna come after you.
When I'm done *** her,
I'm gonna hump you!
You're taking an
attack posture with me?
Yeah, you got a weapon.
Clark got a weapon. He's got a knife.
We all got weapons.
Anybody can blow anybody away...
...any second.
Which is the way
it ought to be. Always.
The Army calls this a weapon.
But it ain't.
This is a weapon.
This is a gun.
This is for fighting.
This is for fun.
Are you gonna watch?
Take security, Eriksson.
You got security.
- Who's next, man?
- Not you, man!
I wish we had some beers.
I'd really like an ice-cold beer.
Better than nothing.
Wish we had a beer.
Don't you wish you had a beer?
Are we gonna flip a coin?
- Diaz is next.
- When am I up, sarge?
- After Clark.
- That's last.
Move it, Diaz, move it!
We ought to have some *** beers.
- Shut the *** up.
- I just want a beer, man.
We should gag her.
We'll have VC all over our case.
Hatcher manages three strokes,
then he goes...
- like a *** mouse.
Clark had his knife to her throat.
So what?
What do you mean?
When is the last time
you had a real woman?
She was real.
I think she was real.
My brother had this car, man.
It was a '57 Chevy Bel Air.
Raked, nosed.
Had 10 coats of hand-rubbed
candy-apple-red lacquer.
The coolest.
It had a 283 in it, bored and stroked.
The fastest
thing in the street!
Diaz will relieve you at 2400, okay?
You probably like the Army, don't you?
I hate the Army.
This ain't the Army.
This ain't the Army, sarge.
Yea, though I walk
through the valley of evil...
...I shall fear no death.
'Cause I'm the meanest
*** in the valley.
It's a bunch of them little people.
There you go.
What do you think?
You want to light them up?
There's something happening here.
Maybe they're just fishing.
You two get back to the ***.
Load up on extra ammo
and smoke grenades.
Diaz, get Big Brother. I want support.
Didi mau, gentlemen.
Big Brother 0-2,
this is Silent Twin 0-2.
*** ***, man.
What did I do to deserve this?
I'm sick of babysitting this ***.
What's happening?
- Meserve wants ammo.
- We're gonna light them up.
- Where's Meserve?
- He's at the ridge.
What do I do, man?
Babysit the ***
while you guys waste some ***?
What'd he say about me?
He didn't say anything.
All right, man. I'm saying it.
I'm going up there, man.
Eriksson, you stay here.
- I'm supposed to go.
- I'm going up there and get some.
I ain't gonna miss this. You ready?
- Meserve won't like this.
- I'm a corporal. You're a PFC.
Now you stay here.
Give me the thump gun.
- Let's didi, Hatch.
- We're gonna K.I.A. Some VC.
***-A.
No more.
No more. I'm not gonna hurt you.
I'm not gonna hurt you, okay?
I just want to untie you. All right?
Just a minute.
Okay.
Oh, God!
I'm sorry.
My friends...
...number 10.
You're sick, huh?
You're sick?
It's okay.
Oh, man, you're burning up.
You're hot.
You hungry? Hungry, food?
Eat, okay? Number one.
Get you something to eat.
Okay? Okay.
Number one. It's good, it's good.
It's okay. Good.
Okay, okay, take it easy.
I don't understand.
I don't know what you're saying.
I don't know what you're saying.
- What's happening?
- Why are you here?
- ***'s happening.
- Where's Eriksson?
- In the ***.
- You left him alone with the ***?
Are you nuts?
Go get him up here. Get everybody
and everything up here ASAP.
I gotta do everything?
I'm gonna take you out of here. Okay?
You. You.
You, me, we go.
We're gonna didi. Okay?
We're gonna go home.
Home.
We go home in the ville. Ville.
Thank God.
Okay, that's right. We're going home.
Wait a minute.
I can't go. You go. Go, go!
I can't go! I'll be a *** deserter.
Go! Go!
No, I'm sorry! I can't do this!
You don't understand!
Oh, Jesus. Okay.
What are you doing?
Nothing, man.
Nothing.
Meserve wants everybody up top.
Shut the *** up!
She'll give us away
with all that coughing.
We gotta waste her.
She'll get us lit up.
- Eriksson, waste the ***.
- What?
You heard me. Grease her.
Another boat, sarge.
Get Reilly. I want that support.
Slicks, snakes, everything.
Right, sarge.
Big Brother 0-2,
this is Silent Twin 0-2, over.
I want you to waste her.
I don't know
what you're talking about.
- Kill the ***.
- You're nuts!
Brownie would kick your *** on this.
He would not tolerate this ***!
Brownie ain't on my frequency no more.
Brownie's dead.
You on my frequency, ***?
If you ain't, you're K.I.A.,
just like the ***.
Let her go, sarge!
What she gonna do, man? Let her go!
- Hatcher, waste her.
- What?
- I'll do it.
- No, Hatcher's gonna do it.
- Why me?
- You piece of ***. You do what I say.
I don't want to.
Choppers, sarge.
*** it!
They're gonna see her.
We gotta get rid of her.
We'll have every bird
circling this area.
Diaz!
- Do it!
- I'll do it, sarge.
- Diaz is gonna do it. Do it!
- Diaz, no, man.
- You yellow piece of ***! Be a man!
- Don't do it.
- Be a man! Do it! Do it!
- Don't do it!
- Do it!
- Don't let him make you.
- Don't do it, man!
- Do it!
Do it!
You *** piece of ***, do it!
- Diaz! Diaz!
- Do it! Do it!
- Do it!
- Diaz! No!
You don't have to worry
about her coughing anymore!
Eriksson, you stay here!
Everybody else move! You cover!
Now we're in the ***.
Take no names and count the bodies!
What the hell is that? Look, sarge!
It's a gunboat.
I fixed her, sarge.
Everybody, move! Right flank!
Right flank!
Switch with me, Hatch. Go!
Get some, ***! Get some!
Oh, God!
- She's getting away!
- No! No!
She's getting away!
She's getting away!
That ***!
I stuck her more than twice!
Waste her!
- No! Stop it!
- Waste her!
Shoot her!
Shoot her!
Shoot her!
Let's make our hat!
Rowan! Rowan!
They did it.
We didn't think they would...
...but they did. They killed her.
- The girl?
- This ain't supposed to happen.
We go into this ville.
We just march in...
...and they take this girl.
They *** her and killed her.
Jesus Christ.
I mean, this ain't supposed to happen.
Hatcher's talking...
Hatcher's talking about Genghis Khan.
- Meserve said I'm K.I.A.
- And Clark?
- He's nuts.
- He's here.
Eriksson, what are you
talking to him about?
I'm allowed to be talking to him.
What happens in the field
stays in the field, man.
You know that. Everybody knows that.
Clarkie, where's Meserve? Is he back?
What happened? You disappeared.
I got choppered out, Clark.
- We have to regroup...
- Don't pull at me!
Don't pull at me.
Reilly said in an hour.
- I'll be there.
- You better be, cherry.
Victor Charles Cong is hardcore.
They said that we were on alert.
I said, "I am always on alert. "
- Did you see him, man?
- That was freaky, man.
They get me back in the bush,
I'm coming back in a bag.
You gotta tell somebody.
Who do you think?
- Tell Reilly.
- Hill's the captain.
You should tell Reilly first.
All right.
On the day I was born,
my mama grunted.
I popped out. Took one look around.
"***," I says,
"it's Two Creeks, Texas. "
So about eight years ago
I'm still in Two Creeks.
My wife's about to have
our first child.
I took her to the hospital,
a natural thing to do.
She was refused admittance to this
hospital on the basis of her race.
Which is, as you might guess, ***.
Next thing I know,
the baby ain't about to wait.
So my son is born
on the *** floor...
...of this hospital's reception room.
Eriksson, I flipped the *** out.
I started turning over chairs...
...kicking lamps.
It wasn't long before I was in jail.
Now wasn't I on the side
of righteousness?
So, what was I doing in jail?
What I was doing, let me advise you...
...was fixing to shoot some
*** in that hospital.
That's what I was doing.
But you know what?
It was like they read my mind...
...and they kept me in that jail
until my mind was turned around.
When I got out, I only wanted to see...
...my baby and my wife.
And I started thinking to myself...
...what happened is the way things are.
So why try and buck the system?
This is what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna break up the squad,
send you in different directions.
- I think this is...
- No, you don't think. You listen.
You'd best just relax and try
to forget about this thing.
You can't expect anything else
in the combat zone.
Is that clear?
Sir. Yes, sir.
I got some boneless chicken
I'll trade for some pound cake.
- We'd kill to keep our pound cake.
- Everybody says that.
In fact, we have killed
to keep our pound cake.
If you was me,
what would you have done?
What do you mean, man?
I mean, if you were me,
what would you have done?
I don't know.
There was this one minute, you know?
I had this chance.
I could have got her out of there.
We both could have taken off.
And then Clark... What was I
supposed to do? Waste a corporal?
- No, man.
- Just blow away four Americans?
- No.
- What then?
Guys, I can't find my squad.
Why are you here?
- I can't find Wilkins.
- Find any pound cake?
- No, just chicken.
- Where is yours?
Somebody stole it.
Can I stay with you?
Yeah, back there.
I should have gone to Captain Hill.
He'd straighten this out.
When we reconnoitre to those caves,
do you think...
Private, move out.
- You told Reilly?
- Reilly's ***.
No, I gotta see Captain Hill.
He'll square this *** away.
Don't go around
your immediate superior.
If I do nothing, she'd just vanish.
There's a chain of command.
I wouldn't violate something
so sacred for a ***.
What are you talking about?
Don't worry about it.
I better go. I feel like
I'm doing something wrong.
I'll see you later.
You won't see us later if you don't
stop bopping around here.
Just take it easy, okay? Slow down.
Tough. There he goes.
- Pathetic.
- He ain't rendezvoused with his brain...
Cease fire! Cease fire!
What's the haps, sarge?
*** trap.
Somebody stepped on a toe-popper.
All right, let's move it out.
- Who got hit, sarge?
- Cherry.
That boy was bagged
the minute they sent him here.
They should have
just shot him at home.
Okay, let's move out.
Get your people out of here. Let's go.
Oh, Jesus!
Pathetic, dumb-*** Cherry.
Wait a minute.
This *** thing
is turning us on our heads.
We're getting it backwards.
Because every day
is a dose of ***.
Just because we could
all be blown away...
...everybody's acting like
we can do anything.
And it don't matter what we do.
But I think it's the other way around.
The main thing is the opposite.
Because we might die
in the next second...
...maybe we gotta
be extra careful what we do.
Because maybe it matters more.
Maybe it matters more
than we even know.
- PFC Eriksson reporting, sir.
- At ease, Eriksson.
Captain Hill, something happened...
I'm aware of why you're here.
Lt. Reilly detailed it to me
just after you brought it to him.
I didn't know that, sir.
That just about cover it, trooper?
I am max-attentive to this situation.
Yes, sir.
Is there someone I should speak to?
Has the investigation started?
I hope you understand how serious
this situation is.
Yes, sir.
That's why I reported it, sir.
This could cause a major international
incident. Do you know that?
Yes, sir.
These men *** up good...
...but you bringing
formal charges against them...
...is that gonna help that girl
one little bit?
Maybe if you had been there, sir.
If you heard her scream...
Don't tell me *** about screaming!
I've heard a lot of *** screaming!
Most of it's come from
wounded American boys.
I'm gonna transfer you out
of my company. That okay?
I'll get you out of the bush,
any *** place you want to go.
I saw your 201 file in the rear.
You volunteered to be a tunnel rat.
Is that what you want?
I want out of this company.
Well, that's a rog.
You're a tunnel rat.
It won't keep me
from bringing this out.
Nobody's trying to keep you
from doing a *** thing.
My function here is just to tell you
how this will come down.
And you ought to be advised...
...that military
court-martials are lenient.
And stateside review boards
are even more lenient.
If these guys get convicted
they won't do any real time.
Yes, sir.
They'll be out of the stockade
before you know it.
And if I was them, I'd be pissed off.
I'd be looking for payback!
Now, a man like you,
wife, baby daughter...
...I'd be considering
those factors very carefully.
Pardon me, sir.
What's your point, sir?
There ain't no point, Eriksson.
I'm just illuminating the terrain
in which we find ourselves deployed.
You don't mind.
And if you do, *** you!
- You on my frequency?
- Yes, sir.
You maggot! Who do you think you are?
You recommended Meserve
for a Bronze Star!
He pulled you out of a VC tunnel, boy!
What he did was wrong.
But he's a kid.
He's 20 *** years old!
And you're gonna ruin his life?
He saved yours!
No, man, no!
Now listen to me, man.
Just don't get too happy
with those dice.
- I'll be there in two seconds.
- Okay. All right.
Hey, Clarkie!
What?
- Charlie's in the wire!
- What the hell's going on?
Christ! What was it?
Who was on watch?
Anybody still in there?
Get that fire out over there.
You sick son of a ***!
I told you, cherry.
What happens...
Nobody cares, Meserve.
Oh, I told everybody.
You don't have to worry.
You don't have to kill me.
I told them, and they don't care!
You dinky dau, man.
You beaucoup dinky dau!
How you doing, son?
Sir.
I'm sorry, sir.
Drunk, sir.
Mind if I join you?
Drunk. Very drunk, sir.
You going on leave?
Getting transferred, sir.
Fini boonies.
This little darling
must be your daughter.
You're not gonna do anything
crazy with that gun, are you?
Just protecting myself, sir.
I gotta protect myself.
Trouble at home, son?
Pardon, sir?
I thought maybe you had problems
at home, sickness in the family.
The answer's not in that can, son.
Are you sure, sir?
I'm a chaplain. Try me.
That's what I do.
You a chaplain, sir?
Are you religious, son?
I'm a Methodist.
I'm a Lutheran.
We can still talk, can't we?
I went on a long-range patrol, sir.
And we kidnapped a girl...
...from a village.
And the other four men...
...*** her.
And they murdered her.
And I failed, sir...
...to stop them.
Couldn't let it rest, could you?
You had to push it.
Go to hell.
Sir!
So you don't feel responsible for
the *** and ***?
No, sir. I don't.
Is it your feeling, Corporal Clark...
...that you are wrongly brought
to trial by the U.S. Government?
I don't have anything
against the government.
But I just think soldiers like
Tony Meserve and me...
...belong out in combat...
...not here.
Throw us in the stockade and you're
helping nobody but the Viet Cong.
When Sergeant Meserve called you, did
you go willingly into the ***...
...and *** the girl...
...Tran Thi Oahn?
Please answer the question.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Have you any idea why Eriksson
stayed out of the ***?
Well, he was brand-new, sir.
I was there a lot longer than him.
At least three weeks longer than him.
You're saying, then...
...you involved yourself in *** to
avoid being ridiculed?
When you go out on a patrol, sir...
...you're not gonna be
as good as you wanna be.
These guys aren't helping you
do anything.
There's gonna be four people
on that patrol, and an individual.
And so I did what I did,
and I got remorse about it.
But I also got remorse about
talking at this trial.
I have a loyalty to the men
I was out there with.
Is it standard for
U.S. Personnel...
...to have sex with
prisoners and kill them?
- Objection!
- Overruled.
The prisoner tried to give
away the squad's position.
She was ill and coughing from the
abuse of you and your men.
She shouldn't have been there
to jeopardize your position!
You dragged her out
and *** her!
And then you blame her for coughing,
so you kill her!
- Does that about sum it up?
- Objection.
Well, sir...
...I've seen a lot of killing...
...which it's our duty to do,
because it's kill or be killed.
Sometimes you hate
the enemy so badly...
About two ops back...
...Operation Turner...
...we saw a ***
that had been burned down.
Some Vietnamese were carrying kids
out of a bunker.
They suffered from smoke inhalation.
I gave one small child
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
That just shows you
we ain't all combat over here.
Of the charges of *** and
unpremeditated ***...
...PFC Diaz is found guilty...
...sentenced to eight years' hard labor.
Of the charge of ***,
PFC Hatcher is found guilty...
...and sentenced to
15 years' hard labor.
Of the charges of
*** and premeditated ***...
...Corporal Clark is found guilty...
...sentenced to life imprisonment
at hard labor.
Of the charge of
unpremeditated ***...
...Sergeant E5 Meserve
is found guilty...
...sentenced to 10 years' hard labor.
Sentences will begin immediately...
...at Disciplinary Barracks,
Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.
Prisoners dismissed.
If these guys get convicted,
they won't do any real time.
They'll be out of the stockade
before you know it.
And if I was them, I'd be pissed off.
I'd be looking for payback!
Excuse me. Excuse me, miss!
- You forgot this.
- Oh! Thank you. Bye.
Do I remind you of someone?
Yeah.
You had a bad dream, didn't you?
Yes.
It's over now, I think.