1 00:00:37,496 --> 00:00:41,875 You may hear the bombs now. If you're still with us, you can hear the bombs now. 2 00:00:41,959 --> 00:00:44,837 They are hitting the centre of the city. 3 00:00:46,505 --> 00:00:51,844 Now, we can hear expIosions off in the distance to the west of centraI Baghdad. 4 00:00:51,885 --> 00:00:57,182 CIearIy I've never been there, but this feels Iike we're in the centre of hell. 5 00:01:25,711 --> 00:01:28,964 The 28 countries with forces in the Gulf area 6 00:01:29,047 --> 00:01:34,011 have exhausted all reasonabIe efforts to reach a peaceful resoIution, 7 00:01:34,052 --> 00:01:40,058 have no choice but to drive Saddam from Kuwait by force. 8 00:01:48,609 --> 00:01:53,781 A great battIe has been initiated. The mother of all battles. 9 00:01:53,864 --> 00:01:59,620 Our objectives in the Persian GuIf are cIear, our goals defined. 10 00:01:59,703 --> 00:02:07,544 Iraq must withdraw from Kuwait compIeteIy, immediateIy, and without condition. 11 00:02:12,758 --> 00:02:15,928 The Iiberation of Kuwait has now entered a final phase. 12 00:02:15,969 --> 00:02:20,390 l have therefore directed to use all forces availabIe, 13 00:02:20,432 --> 00:02:25,521 incIuding ground forces, to eject the lraqi army from Kuwait. 14 00:02:26,688 --> 00:02:31,443 At this point it seems inevitable that the ground war is onIy hours away. 15 00:02:31,485 --> 00:02:33,987 Peter Arnett, Baghdad. 16 00:02:43,580 --> 00:02:47,167 Don't ever for one minute underestimate the enemy, 17 00:02:47,251 --> 00:02:50,754 but remember this, we're better soldiers, we're fighting with better equipment, 18 00:02:50,796 --> 00:02:53,757 we're better trained and we're heII of a Iot smarter. 19 00:02:53,799 --> 00:02:57,553 SIeep deprivation. Remember, our soldiers been up 46, 48 hours, 20 00:02:57,636 --> 00:03:00,138 so let's stay on top of 'em, maintain your intervaIs. 21 00:03:00,180 --> 00:03:02,391 Any questions? 22 00:03:02,474 --> 00:03:04,476 Let's get together, have a Iittle prayer. 23 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:09,982 Dear God, protect us as we protect our country we so dearIy love. 24 00:03:10,065 --> 00:03:15,320 Keep us safe that we'll aII get home to see our famiIies and our children. Amen. 25 00:03:22,870 --> 00:03:25,038 Let's kill 'em aII. 26 00:03:33,505 --> 00:03:36,049 You all right, BoyIar? 27 00:03:36,133 --> 00:03:38,468 HeII, yeah. 28 00:03:38,510 --> 00:03:41,805 - Let's heat 'em up, Nat. - See you in Baghdad. 29 00:03:41,847 --> 00:03:43,015 Yes, sir. 30 00:04:06,705 --> 00:04:09,041 BattIe-carry Sabot. 31 00:04:09,124 --> 00:04:11,960 Sabot bullet coming up, sir. 32 00:04:16,256 --> 00:04:17,799 - Sabot Ioaded. - Indexed. 33 00:04:17,883 --> 00:04:19,259 - Crew report. - Driver ready. 34 00:04:19,343 --> 00:04:20,052 Loader ready. 35 00:04:20,093 --> 00:04:23,889 Gunner ready to give oId Saddam lnsane a whoIe new way to hurt. 36 00:04:26,642 --> 00:04:29,853 - All right, BoyIar? - All Cougar eIements, this is Cougar-6. 37 00:04:29,895 --> 00:04:32,022 Report Red Con 1 . Over. 38 00:04:38,654 --> 00:04:42,074 AII Sabre eIements, this is Sabre-6. Move out. 39 00:05:11,103 --> 00:05:14,022 Sabre-6, this is Cougar-6. There is no joy over here. 40 00:05:14,106 --> 00:05:16,274 Request permission to try an aIternate route. Over. 41 00:05:16,358 --> 00:05:19,736 Roger that, Cougar-6. Work your way forward to phase Iine hammer. 42 00:05:19,778 --> 00:05:22,447 - I don't want any surprises out there. Copy? - Roger that. 43 00:05:22,531 --> 00:05:25,784 l'm taking up the right fIank. l'll get back to you. Out. 44 00:05:29,997 --> 00:05:33,625 Contact. I see fIashes. 3,500 metres, sir. 45 00:05:33,667 --> 00:05:36,294 - All right, baby. - HoId on, son. They got no range. 46 00:05:40,298 --> 00:05:43,468 2,500 metres and cIosing, sir. Ready to lase and bIaze. 47 00:05:45,095 --> 00:05:48,306 Contact, sir. He's in range. Come on, let me kill his ass. 48 00:05:48,348 --> 00:05:50,100 - Fire. - On the way. 49 00:05:55,313 --> 00:05:56,523 Yeah. 50 00:05:57,774 --> 00:06:00,485 CaIm down, son. Find me another target, PateIIa. 51 00:06:00,569 --> 00:06:01,653 - Loaded. - Identified. 52 00:06:01,695 --> 00:06:02,946 - Up - Fire. 53 00:06:10,495 --> 00:06:11,788 Fire. 54 00:06:20,213 --> 00:06:22,507 Got them. We got them. 55 00:06:22,591 --> 00:06:28,805 Sabre-6, Liberty-6. We got enemy tangos retreating vicinity grid 2-4-9er-8. 56 00:06:28,847 --> 00:06:32,851 Your pursuit shouId intercept their retreat grid 7-6-5-4. 57 00:06:32,934 --> 00:06:35,020 - Keep after them. - Roger that, Liberty-6. 58 00:06:35,062 --> 00:06:37,189 Troops. 59 00:06:55,123 --> 00:06:58,543 AII Sabre eIements, cease fire. 60 00:07:07,844 --> 00:07:09,721 Come on. 61 00:07:12,682 --> 00:07:15,393 - Sabre-6, this is Cougar-6. - Go ahead, Cougar-6. 62 00:07:15,435 --> 00:07:19,606 l have got mines. Repeat, mines. l gotta get the fuck out of here. Over. 63 00:07:19,689 --> 00:07:22,234 Cougar-6, work your way to grid Iine CharIie. 64 00:07:22,317 --> 00:07:26,071 Cougar-6 to aII Cougar elements. Let's get the heII out of here. 65 00:07:48,426 --> 00:07:51,096 - Whoa. What the...? - Oh, shit. 66 00:07:51,138 --> 00:07:55,016 AII Sabre units, this is Sabre-6. We just Iost one of our tanks. 67 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:57,227 - Did anybody see the shooter? - I didn't see anything. 68 00:07:57,269 --> 00:07:58,979 Where the heII that come from? 69 00:08:00,230 --> 00:08:05,277 - Goddamn it. Who the hell is shooting at us? - We got enemy tanks retreating grid 7-6 5-4... 70 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,779 - PateIIa, is that one of our tanks? - Hard to tell, sir.. 71 00:08:07,821 --> 00:08:09,948 Well, make it out, and fast. 72 00:08:12,075 --> 00:08:14,911 - Thermal's browning out. - Nat, what's happening? 73 00:08:14,953 --> 00:08:17,956 Liberty-6, we got enemy tanks on our fIank. We have contact. Out. 74 00:08:17,998 --> 00:08:21,918 This is Cougar-6. Enemy tangos at phase Iine deIta. Over. 75 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,129 - Find me a target. - I think I got one. 76 00:08:24,212 --> 00:08:26,923 - Do you or do you not have a target? - I think so. 77 00:08:26,965 --> 00:08:29,259 - Gunner, Sabot, tank. - Identify. Up. 78 00:08:29,301 --> 00:08:31,303 Fire. 79 00:08:32,554 --> 00:08:35,140 He just fired, sir. They're firing at us. 80 00:08:35,182 --> 00:08:36,933 - Loader. - Up. 81 00:08:36,975 --> 00:08:38,810 - Sir? - Fire. 82 00:08:44,441 --> 00:08:47,652 - Sabre-6, we just Iost Cougar-6. - Roger that. We got him. 83 00:08:47,736 --> 00:08:51,323 - Say again, you just Iit up a friendly. - I heard you. We... what? 84 00:08:51,406 --> 00:08:54,659 - Oh, my God. - You just Iit up BoyIar, goddamn it. 85 00:08:54,743 --> 00:08:57,495 Sabre-6, Nat, what's happening out there? 86 00:08:57,537 --> 00:09:01,124 - PateIIa, was that one of our tanks? - He fired, sir. 87 00:09:01,666 --> 00:09:04,336 - At us or at the T-72s? - I don't know. 88 00:09:08,465 --> 00:09:13,220 - Oh, Jesus fucking Christ. - CoIonel SerIing, report status now. 89 00:09:15,222 --> 00:09:19,059 They have range on us, sir. 90 00:09:42,624 --> 00:09:44,793 Oh, Christ, CoIoneI... 91 00:09:49,130 --> 00:09:51,383 l gave the order to fire. 92 00:10:15,907 --> 00:10:19,119 So with your thermal equipment, confused by the burning tanks 93 00:10:19,202 --> 00:10:21,579 and smoke obscuring your visuaI lD, 94 00:10:21,621 --> 00:10:25,583 you couldn't teII the difference between the T-54 and the Abrams. 95 00:10:26,584 --> 00:10:33,258 l beIieve that we... that I shouId have known the difference, even with the night scope. 96 00:10:34,259 --> 00:10:36,344 Now, if we weren't under attack... 97 00:10:36,428 --> 00:10:41,641 But, under the circumstances, there was no way to tell the difference. 98 00:10:44,477 --> 00:10:48,606 Under the circumstances, l suppose that there was no way to tell the difference, but... 99 00:10:48,690 --> 00:10:51,735 There was no way to tell the difference. Thank you, CoIoneI. 100 00:10:52,485 --> 00:10:53,987 That's aII we need. 101 00:11:31,566 --> 00:11:36,738 - Thermal's browning out. - Liberty-6, we got enemy tanks on our flank. 102 00:11:38,615 --> 00:11:40,992 - We just lost Cougar-6. - Roger that. We got him. 103 00:11:41,076 --> 00:11:42,827 You just lit up a friendIy. 104 00:11:44,371 --> 00:11:46,039 CoIoneI SerIing? 105 00:11:47,082 --> 00:11:50,585 - You OK? Can I get you something? - Yes, I'm fine. 106 00:11:50,668 --> 00:11:53,338 You can give me a cup of coffee. That wouId save my Iife. 107 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:54,589 You got it. 108 00:11:54,672 --> 00:11:57,842 We missed you and Meredith at Banacek's party last night. 109 00:11:57,884 --> 00:12:00,470 l'm too old to dance with you youngsters. 110 00:12:00,512 --> 00:12:03,348 Meredith's not, so you tell her to come without you next time. 111 00:12:03,390 --> 00:12:06,559 OK, I wiII do just that next time. 112 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:14,317 - Hershberg in five. Coffee's coming. - Thanks, Maria. 113 00:12:19,948 --> 00:12:22,450 The Washington Post? 114 00:12:23,368 --> 00:12:25,370 About? 115 00:12:26,913 --> 00:12:30,417 Yes, l was there. That's a matter of pubIic record. 116 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,672 Well, thank you very much, Mr... Gartner. 117 00:12:35,713 --> 00:12:39,384 Thank you very much, Mr Gartner, but I have nothing to say. 118 00:12:39,426 --> 00:12:41,094 No, sir. 119 00:12:41,553 --> 00:12:43,721 No, sir. 120 00:12:44,639 --> 00:12:47,892 Well, I'II do just that. Right. 121 00:12:53,356 --> 00:12:55,900 CoIoneI SerIing's here, sir. 122 00:12:55,942 --> 00:12:57,318 Ban. 123 00:12:57,402 --> 00:13:00,822 l'm not taIking to you, CoIoneI. Won't even come to my anniversary party? 124 00:13:00,905 --> 00:13:03,533 You and SyIvia been together, what, one month? 125 00:13:03,575 --> 00:13:06,911 The way she was dancing with that marine, it won't last another week. 126 00:13:06,995 --> 00:13:10,790 It may be my last anniversary party ever. Were you there for me? 127 00:13:10,874 --> 00:13:12,876 What's up? 128 00:13:14,335 --> 00:13:17,380 Hey, Nat. l've got to taIk to you. 129 00:13:17,422 --> 00:13:19,757 - How we hoIding, Ban? - Running Iate, sir. 130 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:21,801 - May l run a few things by you, sir? - QuickIy. 131 00:13:21,885 --> 00:13:24,429 - Lieutenant BoyIar's parents... - BoyIar? 132 00:13:24,512 --> 00:13:29,309 Tom Boylar. He died in Al Bathra. He'd been with me a Iong time. 133 00:13:29,392 --> 00:13:32,228 - From Virginia, right? - Roger that, sir. 134 00:13:32,270 --> 00:13:36,441 - His parents wrote to me about the rumours... - You know we can't discuss it. 135 00:13:36,483 --> 00:13:38,401 - You have to put them off. - Yes, sir, but... 136 00:13:38,443 --> 00:13:41,321 Tell them he died in action. He's a hero. That's aII they want to know. 137 00:13:41,404 --> 00:13:47,243 Roger that, sir, but it's not just his parents. We got a call from The Washington Post. 138 00:13:47,285 --> 00:13:50,747 - A reporter named Gartner. - A reporter caIIed you about AI Bathra? 139 00:13:50,788 --> 00:13:52,624 - You didn't taIk? - Of course not. 140 00:13:52,707 --> 00:13:55,585 Nat, nobody's gonna hang you out to dry. l won't Iet them. 141 00:13:55,627 --> 00:13:59,047 - Did you listen to the tape, sir? - CoIonel, the war's over. 142 00:13:59,130 --> 00:14:01,883 You and I have been given the great responsibiIity 143 00:14:01,966 --> 00:14:05,762 and priviIege of investigating combat medals for our victorious army. 144 00:14:05,803 --> 00:14:11,392 - In other words, we've been passed over. - I prefer to think of it as a second chance. 145 00:14:11,476 --> 00:14:13,478 We understand each other? 146 00:14:13,561 --> 00:14:15,271 - Yes, sir. - OK. 147 00:14:16,189 --> 00:14:20,193 The White House has heard we're considering the MedaI of Honour for this chopper piIot 148 00:14:20,276 --> 00:14:22,237 who saved a bunch of guys on a downed BIackhawk. 149 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,822 - Naturally, they want it for Veterans Day. - Naturally. 150 00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:28,826 Which is why you're taking over the inquiry. HiIIerman's good. You're better. 151 00:14:28,910 --> 00:14:32,580 We've got the rescued soIdiers in there for debriefing. 152 00:14:34,082 --> 00:14:36,084 Attention. 153 00:14:37,126 --> 00:14:39,837 Morning, gentIemen. Take your seats. Everything in order? 154 00:14:39,921 --> 00:14:44,676 - Just going over the sequence of events. - Bring CoIonel SerIing up to speed. 155 00:14:44,759 --> 00:14:47,345 Morning, sir. Good to see you again. 156 00:14:47,428 --> 00:14:49,847 Could we get a quick picture of you and the survivors? 157 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:52,475 No, thank you. Keep me in the loop, Nat. 158 00:14:52,517 --> 00:14:54,519 Thank you, sir. 159 00:14:56,688 --> 00:14:58,189 - Morning. - Morning. 160 00:14:58,273 --> 00:15:00,066 Doug Bruno, White House. 161 00:15:00,149 --> 00:15:03,027 Just do everything my way and we'll get aIong fine. 162 00:15:03,069 --> 00:15:09,284 - Nat SerIing. - WeII, l'll get out of your way. 163 00:15:09,367 --> 00:15:10,660 - Major. - Sir. 164 00:15:10,702 --> 00:15:13,871 25 February, these men were part of a refueIIing convoy. 165 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:17,417 Their BIackhawk was shot down by an SA-7 west of AI Kufan. 166 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:20,712 Five seconds after it locked on, we were down and eating sand. 167 00:15:20,795 --> 00:15:24,507 - We didn't know what hit us. - Our Iines were surrounding them so fast, 168 00:15:24,549 --> 00:15:27,051 we got caught in one of those pockets of resistance. 169 00:15:27,135 --> 00:15:32,432 Iraqi ground troops on the ridge above kept them compIeteIy pinned down. 170 00:15:32,515 --> 00:15:35,727 Did any of you discuss surrendering? 171 00:15:39,147 --> 00:15:43,401 Yes, sir, we did. We were all wounded one way or another. 172 00:15:43,484 --> 00:15:46,696 We weren't trained for that kind of situation, sir. 173 00:15:46,738 --> 00:15:50,783 Don't have to make excuses to me, soIdier. Go on, Sam. 174 00:15:50,867 --> 00:15:52,410 That's about aII we got so far, sir. 175 00:15:52,493 --> 00:15:54,203 OK. 176 00:15:54,495 --> 00:15:56,539 Lieutenant Chelli. 177 00:15:56,581 --> 00:16:01,210 Yes, sir. WeII, as if things weren't bad enough already, 178 00:16:01,252 --> 00:16:06,007 one of their T-54s joins the ragheads up on the ridge. 179 00:16:12,347 --> 00:16:14,641 Incoming. Get down. 180 00:16:17,602 --> 00:16:24,942 That round kiIIs the medic, ReIeno, Gerspach, and Egan here Iost his Ieg. 181 00:16:24,984 --> 00:16:28,071 So we figure that's it. We're dead. 182 00:16:28,112 --> 00:16:32,283 - But then we hear it. - Nothing Iike the sound of an inbound Huey. 183 00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:46,130 - This inbound Huey, did it take any fire? - Right off the bat. 184 00:16:46,172 --> 00:16:49,842 But this time when the Huey comes back, it returns fire. 185 00:16:49,926 --> 00:16:54,222 - Ground troops go for cover. - Then the Huey circles back over the tank... 186 00:16:54,305 --> 00:16:56,307 That's when they threw something overboard. 187 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:02,855 - Threw something, or something feII off? - I couIdn't teII, sir, but the tank bIew. 188 00:17:06,526 --> 00:17:09,195 Man, did it ever blow. 189 00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:13,282 We never did see what knocked the Huey down. 190 00:17:18,246 --> 00:17:20,832 We couIdn't see the crash. 191 00:17:21,749 --> 00:17:25,086 That night we caught sporadic ground fire. 192 00:17:25,169 --> 00:17:30,883 See, the Huey was down beIow, between us and the enemy, so they caught most of it. 193 00:17:30,967 --> 00:17:33,219 Any communications between you and them? 194 00:17:33,302 --> 00:17:37,849 No, sir. As l said, our radio was wasted. Shouting just draws enemy fire. 195 00:17:39,016 --> 00:17:47,400 So the lraqis start to cIose in on the Huey under cover fire, and the Huey returns fire. 196 00:17:47,483 --> 00:17:51,320 We figure it's aII over, and that's when we hear the sound of the rescue team. 197 00:17:51,362 --> 00:17:55,032 - Cobras, Hueys... - And a big-ass A-1 0 ThunderboIt. 198 00:17:58,035 --> 00:18:02,081 l swear l never heard such a sweet sound. But now the fuckers are... 199 00:18:04,041 --> 00:18:07,545 l'm sorry, sir. The lraqis are letting Ioose with everything they got. 200 00:18:07,587 --> 00:18:10,006 You were right the first time. 201 00:18:11,883 --> 00:18:15,219 PIus the Huey crew is stiII banging away. 202 00:18:15,261 --> 00:18:21,392 We load our wounded aboard, and that's when somebody decided to Ieave the dead. 203 00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:24,896 l guess that was the commander of the rescue. 204 00:18:24,937 --> 00:18:30,401 And this Huey crew, they returned fire aII through the finaI rescue? 205 00:18:30,485 --> 00:18:34,280 Yes, sir. I think so. l couldn't see much of anything though. 206 00:18:34,363 --> 00:18:39,744 l heard it. Nothing eIse sounds Iike an M-1 6. Not no A-K or M-60. 207 00:18:39,827 --> 00:18:42,246 l heard it, too. 208 00:18:42,288 --> 00:18:47,585 The Iast thing we see is the ThunderboIt dropping napaIm on the downed choppers. 209 00:18:48,753 --> 00:18:54,926 l don't know if it was Captain WaIden, sir, but that Huey saved our Iives. 210 00:18:58,930 --> 00:19:01,265 It sure sounds Iike it. 211 00:19:03,935 --> 00:19:05,645 OK. 212 00:19:07,230 --> 00:19:10,775 Thank you for aII your help. l'll look over your statements. 213 00:19:10,858 --> 00:19:13,820 - Thank you, sir. - Thank you, CoIonel. 214 00:19:13,903 --> 00:19:15,947 That'II be all. Got something for me? 215 00:19:16,030 --> 00:19:20,409 l do, sir. WaIden's 201 file. Evaluation reports. 216 00:19:20,451 --> 00:19:23,246 l need you to heIp me get some background on these guys. 217 00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:27,792 Gotta make sure we don't have a wife-beater, an iIIegaI aIien or gays, or anything Iike that. 218 00:19:27,875 --> 00:19:31,128 That wouId bIow it. Now, about this Congressional MedaI of Honour. 219 00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:35,383 It's not the CongressionaI Medal of Honour. It's just the MedaI of Honour. 220 00:19:35,466 --> 00:19:38,970 Tell that to Congress. lf Captain WaIden wins this medal... 221 00:19:39,011 --> 00:19:41,889 You don't win it. You receive it. 222 00:19:41,973 --> 00:19:45,726 - It's not a contest. - See, that is perfect. That's what l'm here for. 223 00:19:45,810 --> 00:19:50,648 l'm not here to get down your throat, make you crazy, take these facts and twist them. 224 00:19:50,731 --> 00:19:55,152 l just want to get these nuances out of your head and get it straight from you. 225 00:19:55,236 --> 00:19:58,656 - It's a woman. - You didn't know? 226 00:19:58,698 --> 00:20:01,701 What did you think aII the hoopIa was about? 227 00:20:01,784 --> 00:20:03,953 Banacek's got the information on three of WaIden's men. 228 00:20:03,995 --> 00:20:08,457 - The crew chief we're still tracking. - This is Captain Karen Emma Walden. 229 00:20:08,499 --> 00:20:13,963 She's the first woman in history to be nominated for a MedaI of Honour for combat. 230 00:20:14,005 --> 00:20:17,508 l mean, this is goId. It's goId. 231 00:20:18,342 --> 00:20:22,263 UnfortunateIy, it's posthumous, but I've got her Iittle daughter. 232 00:20:22,346 --> 00:20:27,059 l got the President of the United States. It's aII set in the Rose Garden. 233 00:20:27,143 --> 00:20:31,647 The President's going to Iean down and hang that pretty ribbon round that pretty Iittle face. 234 00:20:31,689 --> 00:20:35,985 There is not going to be a dry eye from Nashua to Sacramento. 235 00:20:36,027 --> 00:20:38,195 Excuse us. 236 00:20:45,369 --> 00:20:47,246 It was 5 to 1 ... 237 00:20:48,372 --> 00:20:51,167 - Hook shot. - And me and her are cheerIeaders. 238 00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:54,837 - More mashed potatoes, pIease. - I'm sorry, there are no more potatoes, 239 00:20:54,879 --> 00:20:57,840 but how about some bread? 240 00:21:03,054 --> 00:21:05,389 Daddy, can l have your mashed potatoes? 241 00:21:07,475 --> 00:21:11,270 Daddy? Sir? 242 00:21:11,354 --> 00:21:14,398 Can I have your mashed potatoes? 243 00:21:14,482 --> 00:21:16,901 Yeah, sure. 244 00:21:16,943 --> 00:21:19,570 Yeah, soIdier. 245 00:21:19,612 --> 00:21:21,447 You want 'em all? 246 00:21:22,865 --> 00:21:25,242 That enough? 247 00:21:27,912 --> 00:21:29,914 More? 248 00:21:30,748 --> 00:21:33,084 HaIIo? Yes. 249 00:21:34,335 --> 00:21:37,672 Who is calling, pIease? Just a minute. 250 00:21:39,173 --> 00:21:41,217 - It's for you. - Who is it? 251 00:21:41,258 --> 00:21:43,761 Somebody Gartner. 252 00:21:45,721 --> 00:21:48,015 Want some more peas? 253 00:22:25,219 --> 00:22:27,221 Excuse me. 254 00:22:40,317 --> 00:22:43,487 - Where are you going? - Fort Hood. 255 00:22:43,571 --> 00:22:47,658 GeneraI Hershberg's got me investigating a MedaI of Honour. 256 00:22:47,742 --> 00:22:51,245 - It's a woman. - Good for her. 257 00:22:52,246 --> 00:22:55,708 - Posthumous. - Too bad, but stiII good for her. 258 00:22:57,168 --> 00:22:59,670 Yeah, too bad. 259 00:23:07,011 --> 00:23:10,389 You taIk to the investigators today? 260 00:23:10,473 --> 00:23:12,141 Right. 261 00:23:14,268 --> 00:23:16,896 It's aII right, isn't it, Nat? 262 00:23:16,979 --> 00:23:18,647 Yeah, fine. 263 00:23:22,651 --> 00:23:25,738 - How long are you gone for? - CoupIe of days. 264 00:23:29,492 --> 00:23:31,744 Then why are you emptying your sock drawer? 265 00:23:34,538 --> 00:23:38,209 l may be gone more than a couple of days. 266 00:23:47,676 --> 00:23:50,221 - Nat. - Yes. 267 00:23:51,305 --> 00:23:56,352 - I don't know what's happening here. - Everything's fine. 268 00:23:56,393 --> 00:23:59,271 l'm handIing it. 269 00:24:30,344 --> 00:24:33,597 Mr Rady, you were Captain WaIden's copiIot. 270 00:24:33,681 --> 00:24:35,516 That's right. 271 00:24:35,599 --> 00:24:38,561 Can you teII me what you remember about Al Kufan? 272 00:24:48,571 --> 00:24:51,949 l remember the earth. 273 00:24:51,991 --> 00:24:55,286 l remember lIario's face. 274 00:24:57,788 --> 00:25:00,666 l wish... 275 00:25:00,749 --> 00:25:04,587 - She hadn't needed to be a hero so bad. - That's not fair. 276 00:25:04,628 --> 00:25:06,964 We were just doing our job. 277 00:25:07,047 --> 00:25:10,217 It's not Ren's fauIt I got hit. 278 00:25:10,301 --> 00:25:15,097 She sure as hell saved the Iives of those guys on the BIackhawk. 279 00:25:15,139 --> 00:25:18,434 - You aIways defend her. - Why didn't you Iike her? 280 00:25:18,475 --> 00:25:21,896 - She was so butch. - Honey, shut up. 281 00:25:23,731 --> 00:25:26,817 She was, you know. 282 00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:30,070 One of those women who wanna be officers... 283 00:25:30,154 --> 00:25:32,156 Annie, shut up. 284 00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:37,286 She gave her Iife for those men. 285 00:25:41,165 --> 00:25:42,833 She was a soIdier. 286 00:25:59,183 --> 00:26:01,685 There she blows. 287 00:26:13,405 --> 00:26:15,658 - We're taking fire. - HoIy shit. 288 00:26:21,956 --> 00:26:25,668 - Kill that motherfucker, Monfriez. - I might as weII be pissing on that sucker. 289 00:26:25,709 --> 00:26:28,921 - We need a fucking air strike. - We ain't got any fucking bombs. 290 00:26:32,841 --> 00:26:35,052 - Making another pass, Ren? - Yep. 291 00:26:35,094 --> 00:26:38,472 No, we shouId go for aItitude, caII for support and get the fuck outta here. 292 00:26:38,555 --> 00:26:40,641 After we sIow down that tank. 293 00:26:40,724 --> 00:26:43,811 - How the fuck we gonna do that? - Shut up and Iisten, soIdier. 294 00:26:43,894 --> 00:26:49,066 AItameyer, unhook the aux fueI bladder port side. Get ready to push it overboard. 295 00:26:49,108 --> 00:26:52,653 - Push it overboard, ma'am? - Ilario, unhook the fIare gun. 296 00:26:52,736 --> 00:26:55,531 - What the fuck? - Do it. 297 00:26:56,073 --> 00:26:58,784 It's a bomb, asshole. 298 00:26:59,952 --> 00:27:01,912 Target coming up. 299 00:27:01,996 --> 00:27:04,415 - Gimme more, damn it. - Ready here. 300 00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:08,294 - You got it? - I got it. 301 00:27:09,378 --> 00:27:13,215 - Let us know when you're there. He'll kick it. - Allow for the speed of the craft. 302 00:27:13,257 --> 00:27:16,260 - The pod wiII drop at the same veIocity. - He knows, damn it. 303 00:27:17,428 --> 00:27:19,638 - Pick your moment. - Now. 304 00:27:39,283 --> 00:27:40,617 Shit. 305 00:27:41,785 --> 00:27:42,786 Oh, God. 306 00:27:42,828 --> 00:27:48,792 - Hang on, lIario. Grab ahoId of me. - Don't Iet go of me. Pull me in. 307 00:27:50,002 --> 00:27:52,629 Do something. 308 00:27:53,172 --> 00:27:55,299 Rady, caII in a Mayday. 309 00:27:56,133 --> 00:27:58,761 Ilario, caII it in. 310 00:27:59,845 --> 00:28:02,473 Mayday, Mayday. Dustoff-3. We're going down. 311 00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:05,100 Mayday, Mayday. This is Dustoff-3. We are going down. 312 00:28:05,142 --> 00:28:10,439 Mayday, Mayday. This is Dustoff-3. We're going down. We're going down... 313 00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:33,212 That's it. 314 00:28:34,338 --> 00:28:37,841 l woke up three days Iater on a hospitaI ship. 315 00:28:37,925 --> 00:28:40,969 Nearly bought it, that's sure. 316 00:28:43,138 --> 00:28:47,434 Where aIong the Iine did you decide the type of career in the Army you wanted? 317 00:28:47,518 --> 00:28:52,815 Well, I think that probabIy happened about my third year at West Point when l was... 318 00:28:52,856 --> 00:28:56,902 You know, l could have gone in the Air Force. l stood high enough in my cIass... 319 00:28:56,985 --> 00:29:00,531 You can't get away from that guy. He's everywhere. 320 00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:03,367 - HeII of a soldier, though, isn't he? - You think so? 321 00:29:03,450 --> 00:29:06,537 - I know so. - ReaIIy. How? 322 00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:12,501 - I was with him in the GuIf. - No shit. Doing what? 323 00:29:12,543 --> 00:29:14,711 Armoured cavaIry. 324 00:29:17,673 --> 00:29:20,092 Once upon a time, l was humping in the deIta. 325 00:29:20,175 --> 00:29:21,468 - With who? - The 9th. 326 00:29:21,552 --> 00:29:24,304 You guys kicked some serious butt over there. 327 00:29:24,388 --> 00:29:27,224 - One for my friend... - CoIonel Nat SerIing. 328 00:29:27,307 --> 00:29:31,061 Make it a doubIe for CoIoneI Serling. Tony Gartner , Washington Post. 329 00:29:33,564 --> 00:29:36,942 They're not going to find any criminaI culpabiIity in the AI Bathra incident. 330 00:29:37,025 --> 00:29:38,777 You got nothing to worry about. 331 00:29:38,861 --> 00:29:42,406 - Those were my men. - I put that badly. l'm sorry. 332 00:29:42,489 --> 00:29:46,368 Look, I went to Virginia and spoke with Mr and Mrs BoyIar. 333 00:29:48,912 --> 00:29:50,122 You what? 334 00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:54,251 l'm sorry, but they got a right to know what happened to their son. 335 00:29:58,881 --> 00:30:00,924 l'll take that. 336 00:30:20,611 --> 00:30:26,074 And this Huey crew, they returned fire aII through the finaI rescue? 337 00:30:26,116 --> 00:30:28,994 Yes, sir. I think so. l couldn't see much of anything though. 338 00:30:29,077 --> 00:30:34,082 l heard it. Nothing eIse sounds Iike an M-1 6. Not no A-K or M-60. 339 00:30:34,124 --> 00:30:39,379 Last thing we see is the ThunderboIt dropping napalm on the two downed choppers. 340 00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:44,778 AII right. This is antifungal cream, but, Iook, you want to kiII the athIete's foot, 341 00:31:44,861 --> 00:31:47,197 when you're in the shower, just piss on your feet. 342 00:31:47,239 --> 00:31:50,033 - That's disgusting. - What've you got for me today? 343 00:31:50,117 --> 00:31:55,872 Here, you want to get rid of the aIIergies to bee poIIen, then no caffeine, no chocoIate. 344 00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:59,626 Jesus. I give up coffee, you can bury me now. 345 00:32:00,627 --> 00:32:04,256 - Morning, CoIoneI. - Morning. You got some aspirins? 346 00:32:04,339 --> 00:32:07,092 How many do you want? l take eight of these every day. 347 00:32:07,175 --> 00:32:10,012 Four's good. l need to taIk to you, SpeciaIist. 348 00:32:10,053 --> 00:32:11,680 Sir? 349 00:32:11,722 --> 00:32:13,807 l'm running an inquiry on the recommendation 350 00:32:13,890 --> 00:32:18,020 to award a MedaI of Honour to Captain Karen WaIden. 351 00:32:18,061 --> 00:32:23,942 Rowtero? Can you cover for me? l'm going to go feed the cancer genes. 352 00:32:24,610 --> 00:32:26,695 Do you reaIIy need to... l mean... 353 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:33,910 It's fine. 354 00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:36,538 What do you want to know? 355 00:32:36,580 --> 00:32:41,627 - How long were you with Captain WaIden? - Over two years. 356 00:32:41,710 --> 00:32:43,712 Quite a long time. 357 00:32:43,754 --> 00:32:46,548 - You were her medic. - Yes, sir. 358 00:32:48,383 --> 00:32:51,094 l don't fIy any more though. 359 00:32:52,095 --> 00:32:55,182 - WeII, don't miss it, do you? - Never. 360 00:32:55,265 --> 00:32:59,186 - Never again. - That's quite a habit you got there. 361 00:33:01,772 --> 00:33:05,275 It's one of the few things l can call my own. 362 00:33:09,237 --> 00:33:12,824 So, teII me what happened at AI Kufan. 363 00:33:23,710 --> 00:33:25,879 See, I'd... 364 00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:29,800 l'd never been in combat. 365 00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:43,438 Mayday, Mayday. This is Dustoff-3. We're going down. 366 00:34:10,507 --> 00:34:13,093 - Ilario? - I'm OK. 367 00:34:13,677 --> 00:34:16,012 Rady's hurt. 368 00:34:16,096 --> 00:34:18,348 - Monfriez? - 1 00%. 369 00:34:19,349 --> 00:34:21,685 - Altameyer? - Functioning. 370 00:34:21,768 --> 00:34:23,478 Fire in the hoId. 371 00:34:29,443 --> 00:34:31,236 Come here, buddy. 372 00:34:34,072 --> 00:34:40,412 This is Dustoff-3. Acknowledge. This is Dustoff-3. 373 00:34:41,455 --> 00:34:44,791 This is Dustoff-3. AcknowIedge. AItameyer, how's that fire? 374 00:34:44,875 --> 00:34:48,086 Fire's under controI. Fuel tank's intact. 375 00:34:49,713 --> 00:34:51,840 Enemy at the back door. 376 00:34:51,882 --> 00:34:54,760 - Monfriez, get that saw working. - Come on. Get down. 377 00:35:00,432 --> 00:35:02,184 l've got the M-1 6. 378 00:35:03,727 --> 00:35:06,104 - Ilario? - He's bad. It's the lung. 379 00:35:15,322 --> 00:35:17,824 We gotta get him out of here. 380 00:35:18,825 --> 00:35:21,244 - Head wound? - SuperficiaI. How's the radio? 381 00:35:21,286 --> 00:35:23,246 Dead. So's the ADT. 382 00:35:24,581 --> 00:35:28,001 Monfriez, easy on the ammo. We might be here a whiIe. 383 00:35:28,084 --> 00:35:30,253 Captain. 384 00:35:33,590 --> 00:35:36,551 Hang in there. You've seen me do this a million times. You're gonna be fine. 385 00:35:37,886 --> 00:35:41,431 - Ammo? - I got this belt and three more boxes. 386 00:35:43,558 --> 00:35:47,896 AItameyer, rip out everything you can from the inside. Seats, litters, aII of it. 387 00:35:47,938 --> 00:35:52,317 We're gonna make us a perimeter. Monfriez, cover us. 388 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,486 Go. 389 00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:01,284 Where's our Kevlar? 390 00:36:01,368 --> 00:36:03,161 l got one. 391 00:36:03,245 --> 00:36:04,788 Well, put it on. 392 00:36:12,254 --> 00:36:15,882 - How's he doing? - He's the same. l need a hook. 393 00:36:24,099 --> 00:36:27,310 As soon as it gets dark, we dig in. Then we wait. 394 00:36:27,352 --> 00:36:30,355 - For what? - For the good guys. 395 00:36:33,692 --> 00:36:37,195 You won't think it's so funny when I naiI your fucking ass. 396 00:36:40,532 --> 00:36:43,076 Yeah, they were Iaughing. 397 00:36:44,661 --> 00:36:46,746 You about... You done? 398 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:52,127 So teII me what happened during the night. 399 00:36:52,168 --> 00:36:57,674 You were there. You saw the nights. You know, it was bIack. Just black. 400 00:36:57,716 --> 00:37:01,469 Tell me what happened that night. 401 00:37:01,511 --> 00:37:05,223 Well, she put us on two-hour watches. 402 00:37:05,307 --> 00:37:09,477 It's not Iike any of us were going to sIeep anyway. 403 00:37:12,272 --> 00:37:15,191 Keep your head down, AItameyer. You might Iose it. 404 00:37:17,027 --> 00:37:20,405 - You OK, Captain? - Shit in my eye. 405 00:37:20,488 --> 00:37:23,533 - You think our guys'II come tonight? - They'II be here. 406 00:37:23,617 --> 00:37:25,201 Dust is blowing pretty bad out there. 407 00:37:25,243 --> 00:37:27,245 l don't know how much longer Rady can hang on. 408 00:37:27,329 --> 00:37:29,831 l can hear the ragheads moving when you peopIe aren't gabbing. 409 00:37:29,873 --> 00:37:32,334 Well, then I suggest that everybody just... 410 00:37:53,605 --> 00:37:56,399 They're going away. It was just a probe. 411 00:37:56,483 --> 00:37:58,610 - Ilario? - I'm OK. 412 00:37:58,693 --> 00:38:00,570 - Altameyer? - My ear. 413 00:38:00,612 --> 00:38:03,365 - Monfriez? - I took one. 414 00:38:03,406 --> 00:38:07,410 - Rady? - Hanging in. How about you, Cap? 415 00:38:09,913 --> 00:38:12,082 Oh, shit. 416 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:14,292 Stay with Rady. 417 00:38:19,923 --> 00:38:22,592 l Iike to come here. 418 00:38:22,676 --> 00:38:26,763 It's not just the bikinis, aIthough they ain't bad. 419 00:38:26,805 --> 00:38:30,183 It's these kids. l Iike to watch them. 420 00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:32,978 My foIks used to have this pIace out on CaIaveras Lake. 421 00:38:33,061 --> 00:38:36,564 l stiII go out there sometimes, watch 'em dive. 422 00:38:36,606 --> 00:38:41,111 They do the damnedest things. They never think about the consequences. 423 00:38:42,654 --> 00:38:47,450 Imagine that. Imagine going through life without thinking about the consequences? 424 00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:50,996 Imagine that. 425 00:38:53,623 --> 00:38:55,458 Are we done? 426 00:38:58,211 --> 00:39:02,465 After the attack, during the night... 427 00:39:02,549 --> 00:39:04,551 What? 428 00:39:04,634 --> 00:39:08,847 l mean, we waited. l stiII don't... l guess I don't know what you... 429 00:39:08,930 --> 00:39:12,475 Just go on with what happened. 430 00:39:16,021 --> 00:39:22,152 Well, Karen... the captain was hurt pretty bad. 431 00:39:30,910 --> 00:39:33,830 - How many rounds left? - Just a sec. 432 00:39:33,913 --> 00:39:37,333 - How many rounds? - I just opened up my last can of ammo. 433 00:39:37,417 --> 00:39:40,670 Five mags for the M-1 6, 9-miI's full. 434 00:39:40,712 --> 00:39:43,131 Mine's empty. 435 00:39:43,173 --> 00:39:47,135 Fire a coupIe of rounds off. Let 'em know we're stiII alive and kicking. 436 00:39:47,177 --> 00:39:49,137 Roger that, Captain. 437 00:39:50,055 --> 00:39:53,725 Now save your ammo for something you can see. 438 00:39:55,894 --> 00:40:00,648 During the course of the incident, did she dispIay any doubt, any fear 439 00:40:00,690 --> 00:40:03,860 when she had to make these Iife-and-death decisions? 440 00:40:03,902 --> 00:40:07,155 No. No, never. 441 00:40:07,197 --> 00:40:10,533 - She just made 'em. - Just Iike that? 442 00:40:10,617 --> 00:40:12,118 Just Iike that. 443 00:40:12,202 --> 00:40:17,791 Karen... the captain, she had this quality. The heavier the pressure, the caImer she got. 444 00:40:17,874 --> 00:40:21,419 We knew they were out there, sneaking up on us. 445 00:40:21,503 --> 00:40:25,215 But we aIso knew at first Iight they were going to attack. 446 00:40:25,256 --> 00:40:29,135 l don't know why peopIe think only good things happen when the sun comes up. 447 00:40:29,469 --> 00:40:30,887 Incoming. 448 00:40:41,064 --> 00:40:43,483 - How many? - 1 00. Maybe more. 449 00:40:43,566 --> 00:40:45,568 You any good at hand-to-hand? 450 00:40:45,652 --> 00:40:50,865 Wait tiII they get cIoser. Make every round count. 451 00:40:53,493 --> 00:40:54,994 - Shit. - Quiet. 452 00:40:55,078 --> 00:40:58,081 What in Christ for? They know we're here. 453 00:40:58,164 --> 00:41:00,125 Quiet. l hear something. 454 00:41:03,336 --> 00:41:05,588 Choppers. 455 00:41:25,567 --> 00:41:28,111 Let's get out of here. Ilario, get the captain. 456 00:41:28,153 --> 00:41:30,321 There's the rescue. 457 00:41:37,245 --> 00:41:39,622 HeIp Rady. 458 00:41:39,664 --> 00:41:43,126 - Pick him up. - Let's go. 459 00:41:44,794 --> 00:41:47,755 Come on, let's move it. 460 00:41:48,298 --> 00:41:53,303 - We gotta go. - Come back for me with a stretcher. 461 00:42:13,114 --> 00:42:16,659 Ilario, let's get the fuck outta here. 462 00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:20,663 Get the fuck outta here. 463 00:42:38,431 --> 00:42:40,433 Medic. 464 00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:44,145 Come on. 465 00:42:47,732 --> 00:42:51,110 Move. Let's go. 466 00:42:53,446 --> 00:42:55,823 Where's WaIden? 467 00:42:55,865 --> 00:42:59,077 Captain WaIden is dead. 468 00:43:01,704 --> 00:43:03,790 Strike Ieader, this is Dustoff-6. 469 00:43:03,873 --> 00:43:07,001 We have got aII the friendIies here. You're clear and hot. 470 00:43:18,805 --> 00:43:20,807 So... 471 00:43:21,557 --> 00:43:24,102 Is she gonna get it? Is he gonna get the medaI? 472 00:43:24,185 --> 00:43:26,938 Well, I sincereIy hope so. 473 00:43:27,021 --> 00:43:32,860 l just... I don't want to teII that story again. Not one more time. 474 00:43:32,902 --> 00:43:34,612 l understand. 475 00:43:36,906 --> 00:43:40,076 - May l be excused? - Yes, you can. 476 00:43:40,118 --> 00:43:43,121 Oh, one more thing l'm confused about though. 477 00:43:44,580 --> 00:43:46,249 This M-1 6... 478 00:43:47,709 --> 00:43:50,503 - What? - Did it run out of ammo? 479 00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:54,799 What did I say? 480 00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:58,386 l don't remember. That's why l'm asking. 481 00:43:59,804 --> 00:44:04,559 l guess... I guess it ran out of ammo some time during the morning. 482 00:44:08,021 --> 00:44:10,773 Or, no, some time during the night... l don't know. 483 00:44:10,815 --> 00:44:17,780 See, the BIackhawk crew said they heard M-1 6 fire during the rescue that morning. 484 00:44:19,032 --> 00:44:21,993 - Did they? - That's right. 485 00:44:22,076 --> 00:44:25,663 - Must've been wrong, then. - Them or you? 486 00:44:25,747 --> 00:44:29,792 - Who? Them or you? - Them. They must have been wrong. 487 00:44:33,004 --> 00:44:35,006 OK. 488 00:44:35,548 --> 00:44:38,343 What about the letter? 489 00:44:38,426 --> 00:44:39,594 A what? 490 00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:43,639 You and WaIden traded Ietters to send home in case anything happened to you. 491 00:44:43,723 --> 00:44:46,434 - Oh, yeah. Yes, sir. - Who was hers to? 492 00:44:46,476 --> 00:44:48,311 - Her foIks. - So you sent it? 493 00:44:48,353 --> 00:44:49,937 Yeah. 494 00:44:49,979 --> 00:44:53,691 Her foIks are good peopIe. They got a farm out there in AbiIene. 495 00:44:53,775 --> 00:44:59,489 They used to come over to Hood, Iook after her kid whiIe we went out on exercises. 496 00:45:02,158 --> 00:45:04,160 OK. 497 00:45:04,202 --> 00:45:06,496 - Thank you, Specialist. - Thank you very much, sir. 498 00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:17,423 l read somewhere that if a chiId doesn't see a person die, 499 00:45:17,507 --> 00:45:20,927 or dead, Iike in a casket, 500 00:45:21,010 --> 00:45:24,847 that the person isn't reaIIy dead for them. 501 00:45:25,807 --> 00:45:28,267 That'd be nice, wouldn't it? 502 00:45:28,351 --> 00:45:30,353 Yes, ma'am. 503 00:45:31,521 --> 00:45:37,610 It was... unusuaI, wasn't it, for Karen to want to be a heIicopter piIot? 504 00:45:37,693 --> 00:45:42,281 l guess that's my fault. l took her to the fair when she was 1 1 . 505 00:45:42,365 --> 00:45:45,701 1 2. Seventh grade. 506 00:45:45,743 --> 00:45:50,498 Anyway, there was a helicopter there. Small one with a bubbIe up front. 507 00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:53,376 The piIot was seIIing rides. 508 00:45:53,459 --> 00:45:56,212 l bought Karen a ticket. 509 00:45:56,254 --> 00:46:01,175 It was a short ride, but when she came down... 510 00:46:01,217 --> 00:46:04,887 Well, I don't think she ever came down, actually. 511 00:46:04,929 --> 00:46:08,641 She showed up at the dinner table one day... 512 00:46:09,642 --> 00:46:13,020 just after she finished TCU. 513 00:46:13,062 --> 00:46:16,274 She's joined the Army. She wants to fIy heIicopters. 514 00:46:16,357 --> 00:46:20,486 - She was reaI stubborn about it, too. - That's our Karen, stubborn. 515 00:46:20,570 --> 00:46:22,572 So's Anne Marie here. 516 00:46:25,241 --> 00:46:28,077 Come here, honey. Excuse me. 517 00:46:35,042 --> 00:46:40,590 The young men, the ones that came to teII us about Karen, 518 00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:43,259 they were dressed just Iike you. 519 00:46:43,301 --> 00:46:46,095 Oh, l see. 520 00:46:46,179 --> 00:46:49,765 Major Teegarden, her commanding officer, he came, too, 521 00:46:49,849 --> 00:46:52,435 when he came back from the Gulf. 522 00:46:52,477 --> 00:46:55,813 Brought this photo back for Anne Marie. 523 00:46:57,648 --> 00:47:00,610 Meant a Iot to us him coming to see us, 524 00:47:00,651 --> 00:47:04,113 telling us in person how it was that Karen died. 525 00:47:04,197 --> 00:47:06,949 l Iost men over there, too. 526 00:47:07,033 --> 00:47:09,619 l spoke to the major. 527 00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:12,413 Everybody thought the worId of your daughter. 528 00:47:12,455 --> 00:47:15,249 So did Specialist Ilario. 529 00:47:15,291 --> 00:47:19,879 It would sure help if I couId see her Ietter. l mean, if it's not too private. 530 00:47:19,962 --> 00:47:23,299 - Letter? - From IIario? 531 00:47:24,967 --> 00:47:27,929 l'll check my notes. Must be my mistake. 532 00:47:27,970 --> 00:47:32,808 - This her husband here? - No. That's Karen's oIder brother Billy. 533 00:47:32,850 --> 00:47:35,853 Her husband's up in Michigan. 534 00:47:36,854 --> 00:47:40,399 He and Karen divorced after onIy a year or so. 535 00:47:40,483 --> 00:47:43,819 He never... WeII... 536 00:47:43,861 --> 00:47:48,157 It was no picnic. Karen raised Anne Marie on her own. 537 00:47:48,199 --> 00:47:51,619 HeII, we wouId have been thriIIed to have Anne Marie with us all the time, 538 00:47:51,661 --> 00:47:54,038 what with the Army and aII. 539 00:47:54,121 --> 00:47:56,958 But Karen was a real good mom. 540 00:47:58,042 --> 00:48:02,129 Never asked for heIp unIess she reaIIy needed it. 541 00:48:02,171 --> 00:48:08,344 You can't imagine how hard it was for her to go off and Ieave that Iittle girl to fight in a war, 542 00:48:08,427 --> 00:48:13,766 but it was important to Karen to do her duty, so she went. 543 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:43,045 You've been sitting out here 20 minutes since l spotted you. How much longer before that? 544 00:48:43,129 --> 00:48:44,880 Fifteen. 545 00:48:47,883 --> 00:48:52,805 l see you got the new refrigerator. 546 00:48:52,888 --> 00:48:55,725 Do you think the kids are going to understand why their daddy is sitting out here 547 00:48:55,766 --> 00:48:59,312 around the corner in a Chevy instead of pIaying with them in the front yard? 548 00:48:59,395 --> 00:49:02,732 Or at Fort Hood, Iike you toId me you were? 549 00:49:05,610 --> 00:49:07,903 Are you back? 550 00:49:07,987 --> 00:49:10,656 l'm in transit. 551 00:49:19,415 --> 00:49:22,918 You know, it took me a Iong time to figure out how to be an Army wife 552 00:49:23,002 --> 00:49:27,923 without totaIIy obIiterating myseIf. It wasn't easy, but I did it. 553 00:49:27,965 --> 00:49:30,843 l know you did, Mer. 554 00:49:30,926 --> 00:49:35,264 So it wouIdn't be a hardship for me to learn how not to be an Army wife 555 00:49:35,348 --> 00:49:39,101 if, say, my husband wasn't in the Army any more. 556 00:49:39,185 --> 00:49:41,896 The Army's my Iife, Mer. 557 00:49:41,937 --> 00:49:44,607 And so are we. 558 00:49:46,484 --> 00:49:52,448 You don't have to figure it aII out, Nat. You just have to admit that you can't. 559 00:49:54,659 --> 00:49:59,121 You have to want to be here with us, that's aII. 560 00:50:00,873 --> 00:50:02,750 We'II be here. 561 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,922 For a whiIe. 562 00:50:19,016 --> 00:50:20,976 Now go away. 563 00:50:21,018 --> 00:50:24,355 lf you're not gonna stay, l don't want the kids to see you. 564 00:50:31,195 --> 00:50:35,616 - This M-1 6, did it run out of ammo? - What did l say? 565 00:50:35,658 --> 00:50:39,120 - CoIonel SerIing, you can go in now. - I don't remember. 566 00:50:46,210 --> 00:50:50,715 - Hey, Nat, what's up? - GeneraI. lt's the WaIden file. 567 00:50:50,798 --> 00:50:54,343 - One or two discrepancies. - Discrepancies? 568 00:50:54,427 --> 00:50:57,680 l knew those cIowns at the White House were up to something. 569 00:50:57,763 --> 00:51:00,975 - If she doesn't deserve it, she doesn't get it. - It's not Captain Walden. 570 00:51:01,016 --> 00:51:04,395 It's some of the detaiIs of the stories that I'm getting from her crew. 571 00:51:04,478 --> 00:51:07,690 - Now, I don't know how significant it is... - I'm drowning in paper here. 572 00:51:07,732 --> 00:51:11,569 They're crawIing all over my ass for combat assessments, deposition reports... 573 00:51:11,652 --> 00:51:16,240 l just wanted to let you know that this is not just a rubber-stamp situation. 574 00:51:16,323 --> 00:51:21,996 This speciaIist... this lIario, there's something reaI funny about his story. 575 00:51:22,037 --> 00:51:25,541 We're not giving the medaI to lIario. We're giving it to WaIden, right? 576 00:51:25,583 --> 00:51:27,293 SpIendid. Move forward, CoIoneI. 577 00:51:27,376 --> 00:51:32,047 OK, the discrepancies specifically reIate to use of an M-1 6 rifIe... 578 00:51:32,089 --> 00:51:36,135 Come on, Nat. No two eyewitnesses ever agree about every detail. 579 00:51:36,218 --> 00:51:37,887 You know that just as well as I do. 580 00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:41,724 When do we get that report? l want the White House off my back. 581 00:51:41,766 --> 00:51:43,100 A few days, sir. 582 00:51:43,184 --> 00:51:48,397 You agree that this report should be as detaiIed and accurate as possibIe? 583 00:51:48,439 --> 00:51:51,275 Which means exactIy what, CoIonel? 584 00:51:51,358 --> 00:51:54,069 Which means exactIy what I said, sir. 585 00:51:56,781 --> 00:52:00,910 Sorry, sir. This is the second copy of CoIoneI Serling's Al Bathra deposition. 586 00:52:00,993 --> 00:52:04,455 The investigators seemed to have mispIaced the Iast one. 587 00:52:04,538 --> 00:52:08,375 Rise above. This will aII be over soon. 588 00:52:09,752 --> 00:52:13,964 WiII there be a pubIic statement of the facts when the AI Bathra investigation is over? 589 00:52:14,048 --> 00:52:16,759 There's been a decision not to reIease any of these findings 590 00:52:16,801 --> 00:52:20,095 untiI every case has been thoroughIy reviewed. 591 00:52:21,388 --> 00:52:23,766 Well, how Iong do you imagine that wiII be, sir? 592 00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:28,896 Next time l see Lieutenant BoyIar's parents, l'd Iike to be abIe to tell them the whoIe truth. 593 00:52:28,938 --> 00:52:33,025 You know how many grieving parents l had to deaI with during Vietnam? 594 00:52:33,108 --> 00:52:36,529 With all due respect, sir, this is not Vietnam. 595 00:52:36,612 --> 00:52:39,490 Now, Lieutenant BoyIar's tank was hit by uranium-depIeted shells. 596 00:52:39,573 --> 00:52:42,451 We're the onIy country in the worId that uses them. 597 00:52:42,535 --> 00:52:46,247 We got these reporters sniffing around his parents Iooking for the truth, 598 00:52:46,288 --> 00:52:49,250 and the onIy person that knows the truth is not aIIowed to say it, 599 00:52:49,291 --> 00:52:53,295 because these investigators are dragging their backsides. 600 00:52:53,379 --> 00:52:57,633 Someone has got to be accountabIe for this, sir. 601 00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,895 Take a seat. 602 00:53:21,699 --> 00:53:24,493 Nat, I'm gonna give you aII the rope in the worId. 603 00:53:24,577 --> 00:53:29,707 First you impIy that l'm not interested in an accurate report on Captain WaIden. 604 00:53:29,790 --> 00:53:34,295 Now you're suggesting that there must be some cover-up going on about AI Bathra. 605 00:53:34,336 --> 00:53:38,340 So how do you want me to respond? As your commanding officer? 606 00:53:38,382 --> 00:53:43,304 Or as your friend, who nursed you, patted your back, pushed promotions, 607 00:53:43,345 --> 00:53:46,849 and fucking burped your kids at their baptisms? 608 00:53:46,932 --> 00:53:49,310 Just how should l respond? 609 00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:53,272 l'm sorry, sir. 610 00:53:53,355 --> 00:53:56,525 l shouId hope by God you wouId be. 611 00:53:56,609 --> 00:54:02,615 Now, Iosing a man Iike your friend Boylar... 612 00:54:03,866 --> 00:54:06,327 l've been there. 613 00:54:06,368 --> 00:54:09,705 And this whoIe mess... 614 00:54:10,706 --> 00:54:14,376 It's my ass on the Iine right there beside yours. 615 00:54:14,460 --> 00:54:16,629 l can feeI the chill in the air as well as you can. 616 00:54:16,712 --> 00:54:18,005 Yes, sir. 617 00:54:19,381 --> 00:54:21,926 And l know about the drinking. 618 00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:27,765 And if I have to write you up, it's just going to be one more big bite out of your record. 619 00:54:27,848 --> 00:54:31,685 CIean it up. Get yourseIf in a programme. 620 00:54:31,727 --> 00:54:35,856 l'll be Iooking for that report. Soon. 621 00:54:52,414 --> 00:54:55,084 - This is the Serling residence. - We're not in right now. 622 00:54:55,125 --> 00:54:59,421 - But at the tone Ieave a message and... - We'll caII you when we get home. 623 00:55:21,944 --> 00:55:28,117 You better get your head into this, or l'II drop you from this programme Iike a hot rock. 624 00:55:31,203 --> 00:55:34,415 Morning, sir. Monfriez is right over there. l'll get him for you. 625 00:55:34,456 --> 00:55:35,624 Thank you. 626 00:55:37,292 --> 00:55:39,795 What the fuck do you think you're doing? Where are your men? 627 00:55:39,878 --> 00:55:43,298 - Right there, sir. - Yeah? What do you caII that? 628 00:55:43,340 --> 00:55:46,885 You and he are brothers. He depends on you. You depend on him. 629 00:55:46,969 --> 00:55:48,470 You never Ieave a man behind. 630 00:55:48,512 --> 00:55:51,849 - Yes, Drill Sergeant. - Now get the fuck outta here. 631 00:55:53,726 --> 00:55:56,603 - You were in Panama? - Yes, sir. 632 00:55:56,645 --> 00:55:59,857 - Were you there, sir? - Yes, I was. 633 00:55:59,940 --> 00:56:04,445 - And you were aIso in Desert Storm? - Roger that, sir. 634 00:56:05,446 --> 00:56:08,073 How'd you come to be on Captain WaIden's chopper? 635 00:56:08,157 --> 00:56:12,703 - I used to hang around the medevac unit. - Wanted to be a medic? 636 00:56:12,786 --> 00:56:15,497 Wanted to hump a nurse once. That count, sir? 637 00:56:17,124 --> 00:56:18,751 l pIay poker. 638 00:56:18,834 --> 00:56:23,047 These medevac foIks, between missions, they had a Iot of time on their hands. 639 00:56:23,130 --> 00:56:26,759 - Want to know a poker secret, sir? - Always. 640 00:56:26,842 --> 00:56:30,179 The peopIe you pIay against, find out what they're interested in. 641 00:56:30,262 --> 00:56:32,222 Pretend you're interested. 642 00:56:32,306 --> 00:56:36,852 They start running off at the mouth, don't pay no attention to their cards. 643 00:56:36,894 --> 00:56:40,522 Medevac foIks, they Iove to taIk about their choppers. 644 00:56:42,733 --> 00:56:44,401 Paid for this baby. 645 00:56:52,117 --> 00:56:56,205 So, taIk to me about 25 February. 646 00:56:56,246 --> 00:56:59,917 25 February? Yes, sir. 647 00:57:01,293 --> 00:57:04,880 l had some phys rehab time. Got into boxing. 648 00:57:04,963 --> 00:57:08,509 - Want a soda pop, son? - No, sir. No, l'm good. 649 00:57:08,550 --> 00:57:13,138 - 25 February. - So, 25 February... 650 00:57:13,222 --> 00:57:16,809 Major... What's his butt? Garden Party... 651 00:57:16,892 --> 00:57:19,770 - Major Teegarden. - Right. 652 00:57:19,853 --> 00:57:24,233 Asked me to go with Walden, said she might need some guns, so I said, why not? 653 00:57:24,316 --> 00:57:28,403 Grabbed me a saw, bungeed one of the Huey doorways and away we went. 654 00:57:29,488 --> 00:57:31,115 Yeah. 655 00:57:31,198 --> 00:57:35,244 And the captain was a big hero. 656 00:57:35,327 --> 00:57:39,081 She died tragicaIIy in the desert, and Major... Teegarden 657 00:57:39,164 --> 00:57:42,042 wants her to get the MedaI of Honour, so she's gonna get it. 658 00:57:42,084 --> 00:57:45,712 When did the M-1 6 ammo run out? 659 00:57:45,754 --> 00:57:48,549 - What? - M-1 6 ammo? 660 00:57:48,590 --> 00:57:54,263 BIackhawk crew said they heard M-1 6 fire during the rescue. When did it run out? 661 00:57:55,222 --> 00:57:59,518 - I wouIdn't know anything about that, sir. - You wouIdn't? 662 00:57:59,601 --> 00:58:06,108 As I recaII, and I'm not reaIIy sure, but the M-1 6 ammo ran out first thing in the morning. 663 00:58:06,150 --> 00:58:10,946 First thing in the morning. But you're not reaIIy sure? 664 00:58:11,822 --> 00:58:14,491 Now I'm confused. You were there, weren't you? 665 00:58:14,575 --> 00:58:18,495 That's affirmative, sir. But l was on the saw. 666 00:58:19,580 --> 00:58:21,832 - Altameyer would know, sir. - Altameyer? 667 00:58:21,915 --> 00:58:26,879 - Yes, sir. He was manning the M-1 6. - Oh, I see. OK. 668 00:58:26,962 --> 00:58:30,090 OK. Let's back up, then. 669 00:58:30,132 --> 00:58:34,178 When that tank fired on your chopper, you said that... 670 00:58:35,304 --> 00:58:40,642 "You shouId go for altitude and caII for support", right? 671 00:58:40,726 --> 00:58:42,477 Sir? 672 00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:46,648 You knew that men were going to die, so you wanted to get the heII outta there, right? 673 00:58:46,732 --> 00:58:49,151 Who toId you that, sir? Tea Party? lIario? 674 00:58:49,234 --> 00:58:51,987 It doesn't matter who toId me that. You teII me. 675 00:59:00,829 --> 00:59:03,957 - You don't wanna know what happened there. - Yes, I do. 676 00:59:05,751 --> 00:59:10,005 You just want me to sign off on the story, so you can finish your job and she gets a medaI. 677 00:59:12,090 --> 00:59:14,968 Are you refusing to teII me, soIdier? 678 00:59:15,010 --> 00:59:18,680 You know what to do when you puII the trigger and the round doesn't go off? 679 00:59:18,722 --> 00:59:20,682 - Yes, I do. - You wait, 680 00:59:20,766 --> 00:59:24,603 with your weapon pointed in a safe direction, because sometimes the primer burns sIow. 681 00:59:24,686 --> 00:59:28,732 You open your weapon and take the round out, it blows up in your face. 682 00:59:30,275 --> 00:59:33,278 Leave this round in the chamber, ColoneI. 683 00:59:37,324 --> 00:59:41,411 l work at the Pentagon, Sergeant, so I admit l'm a IittIe sIow on the uptake. 684 00:59:41,495 --> 00:59:44,539 Otherwise l'd say that you just threatened me. 685 00:59:48,001 --> 00:59:51,255 Did you just threaten me, soldier? 686 00:59:51,338 --> 00:59:54,883 Because, if you did, Iet me respond to you. 687 00:59:59,930 --> 01:00:03,725 Let me respond to you this way. 688 01:00:03,767 --> 01:00:10,315 l'm an officer, and therefore, by proclamation, a gentleman, but don't abuse that, son. 689 01:00:10,399 --> 01:00:13,568 Don't get in my cross hairs, because l'll have no compunction whatsoever 690 01:00:13,652 --> 01:00:17,990 about getting up to my neck in your ass. Do you understand me? 691 01:00:19,992 --> 01:00:22,286 She was afraid, CoIonel. 692 01:00:22,369 --> 01:00:26,248 That's the bottom Iine on your Captain Walden. She was a fucking coward, sir. 693 01:00:30,836 --> 01:00:33,755 Get me around so l can fire. 694 01:00:37,759 --> 01:00:40,929 - Go back. Let me have another shot. - I don't know. 695 01:00:40,971 --> 01:00:45,892 - I'm going for aItitude, caII for support. - There's no time. 696 01:00:45,934 --> 01:00:49,980 AII right, one more. But then l'm calling for support. 697 01:00:50,063 --> 01:00:55,777 AItameyer, unhook the aux fueI ceIIs. Prepare to toss them overboard. Ilario, the flare gun. 698 01:00:55,861 --> 01:01:00,490 - So it was your idea to use the fueI cell? - Yeah. Me, Rady, somebody. 699 01:01:00,574 --> 01:01:04,619 The adrenaline was pumping. You can't expect me to remember everything. 700 01:01:04,661 --> 01:01:06,496 Try . 701 01:01:07,456 --> 01:01:09,499 Now. 702 01:01:16,548 --> 01:01:18,925 So what happened during the night? 703 01:01:18,967 --> 01:01:24,389 Walden and IIario wouIdn't shut up about being rescued. 704 01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,934 Like the Army had nothing eIse to do, or something. 705 01:01:27,976 --> 01:01:31,229 - Dust is bIowing pretty hard out there. - Think they'II find us tonight? 706 01:01:31,313 --> 01:01:33,690 AWACS Iost us when the ADT got hit. 707 01:01:33,774 --> 01:01:36,318 SOP is for search and rescue to begin looking... 708 01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:40,405 - Christ, Captain, are you crying? - It's OK. It's just tension. 709 01:01:40,489 --> 01:01:44,826 Hey, you're going to be OK. They'II find us. It'II be OK. 710 01:01:45,660 --> 01:01:49,664 l can hear the ragheads moving out there, as soon as you girls stop gabbing. 711 01:02:05,389 --> 01:02:08,058 They're going away. It was just a probe. 712 01:02:08,141 --> 01:02:10,519 - Shit. - I'm OK. 713 01:02:10,602 --> 01:02:12,437 - I took one. - How's Rady? 714 01:02:12,521 --> 01:02:15,148 Hanging in. Captain? 715 01:02:22,030 --> 01:02:25,409 So the rest of the night went without incident? 716 01:02:26,493 --> 01:02:30,705 Yeah. What? Wasn't that enough for one night? 717 01:02:30,747 --> 01:02:33,750 You want to continue this tomorrow? 718 01:02:35,085 --> 01:02:39,548 l don't get emotionaI about this shit. l've been there, you know? 719 01:02:40,674 --> 01:02:43,552 OK. Go on. 720 01:02:43,593 --> 01:02:48,598 After the firefight, we argued mainly. Ilario was freaked out by the dark, 721 01:02:48,682 --> 01:02:51,518 and WaIden wanted to surrender at first light. 722 01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,521 She was a wreck. Kept asking about the ammo, worrying we didn't have enough. 723 01:02:54,563 --> 01:02:56,898 l knew they'd attack at dawn. 724 01:02:59,317 --> 01:03:02,112 So what happened during the evacuation? 725 01:03:03,905 --> 01:03:06,283 The evacuation. 726 01:03:09,744 --> 01:03:12,789 AII right, let's go. There's the rescue. 727 01:03:17,252 --> 01:03:20,422 AItameyer, give me a hand with Rady. 728 01:03:20,464 --> 01:03:24,217 - Come on, Captain. Suck it up. - Don't touch me. 729 01:03:25,427 --> 01:03:27,762 l got you covered. Ready? 730 01:03:30,348 --> 01:03:31,600 Go. Go. Go. 731 01:03:33,810 --> 01:03:36,396 - Ilario, get a move on. - Not without the Captain. 732 01:03:36,438 --> 01:03:38,565 l'll get her. 733 01:03:38,607 --> 01:03:42,360 l'm not Ieaving. It's not safe. 734 01:03:42,444 --> 01:03:45,780 They're taking fire. The choppers are waiting. 735 01:03:57,792 --> 01:04:00,295 Get the fuck outta here. 736 01:04:05,425 --> 01:04:08,678 - She fired at you? - Near us, yeah. 737 01:04:08,762 --> 01:04:12,974 Well, then why did you lie to the investigators about how she performed? 738 01:04:15,644 --> 01:04:18,647 They'd aIready put together their own buIIshit version of the story 739 01:04:18,688 --> 01:04:21,733 before they ever bothered to taIk to me. l just toId them what they wanted to hear. 740 01:04:21,816 --> 01:04:23,109 We aII did. 741 01:04:23,151 --> 01:04:27,155 But that's way it went down, so just forget about the medaI, or leave it as it is. 742 01:04:27,197 --> 01:04:28,823 l reaIIy don't give a fuck. 743 01:04:28,865 --> 01:04:33,870 So nobody from your Huey crew fired an M-1 6 any time during the rescue? 744 01:04:33,954 --> 01:04:37,499 - That's affirmative, sir. - Monfriez, you ready? 745 01:04:40,502 --> 01:04:46,132 - You sure about that? - That's affirmative, sir. We had no ammo. 746 01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:55,225 So how about it, CoIoneI? Want to go a few rounds? 747 01:04:56,059 --> 01:04:59,062 - Are you threatening me, soIdier? - Where's your brain bucket? 748 01:04:59,145 --> 01:05:01,690 - I don't need it. - You don't step into my ring without one. 749 01:05:01,731 --> 01:05:06,486 l have to teII you again, you won't have a head to stick it on. 750 01:05:06,528 --> 01:05:08,697 Come on, Jersey. Come on, man. Right here. 751 01:05:08,738 --> 01:05:12,993 - Let's see what you got. - You got nothing, man. 752 01:05:25,714 --> 01:05:28,633 - HeIIo. - HeIIo? Baby? 753 01:05:28,717 --> 01:05:31,720 - How're you doing? - Hi. 754 01:05:35,432 --> 01:05:37,976 - How's it going? - Outstanding. 755 01:05:39,060 --> 01:05:43,023 Outstanding. l was calling, I wanted... 756 01:05:43,064 --> 01:05:48,570 What size T-shirts do the kids wear? l want to get the kids some T-shirts. 757 01:05:50,155 --> 01:05:53,742 You know their sizes as weII as l do. 758 01:05:53,825 --> 01:05:57,454 Are you OK? Nat? 759 01:05:59,289 --> 01:06:04,669 l got a pint of Scotch here in a paper bag. 760 01:06:06,004 --> 01:06:08,089 l don't want to drink any of it. 761 01:06:10,300 --> 01:06:12,969 Can you teII me why you need it? 762 01:06:18,099 --> 01:06:20,268 Want me to prattIe on for a minute? l can do that. 763 01:06:20,352 --> 01:06:22,687 - Please. - OK. 764 01:06:25,774 --> 01:06:30,153 The new refrigerator doesn't work. The light doesn't come on when you open the door. 765 01:06:30,236 --> 01:06:34,491 l had to drive aII the way over to Wagner, 1 2 bIocks, 766 01:06:34,574 --> 01:06:37,786 just so that Brian couId practise riding his bike. 767 01:06:37,827 --> 01:06:41,289 He's afraid of faIIing in front of his friends. 768 01:06:41,373 --> 01:06:45,418 And he refuses to Iet anyone see him riding with training wheeIs. 769 01:06:46,836 --> 01:06:51,716 They've both taken to sIeeping in our bed since you left. 770 01:06:52,801 --> 01:06:56,721 - It's Iike sleeping between two tornadoes. - I better go, baby. 771 01:06:56,805 --> 01:06:59,808 - Don Boylar caIIed. - Jesus. 772 01:07:01,017 --> 01:07:03,478 - I better go. - Nat, talk to me. 773 01:07:03,561 --> 01:07:05,689 - I can't. - Why not? 774 01:07:05,772 --> 01:07:09,859 - I can't. - BuIIshit. BuII. TaIk to me. 775 01:07:16,616 --> 01:07:18,618 Oh, Christ. 776 01:07:19,994 --> 01:07:21,996 CoIoneI? 777 01:07:31,131 --> 01:07:33,800 Can we get some coffee, pIease? 778 01:07:37,262 --> 01:07:39,931 You're not a happy man. 779 01:07:40,014 --> 01:07:42,350 Is it a woman? The Army? 780 01:07:42,684 --> 01:07:45,019 AI Bathra? 781 01:07:55,697 --> 01:07:57,699 Talk to me. 782 01:07:57,741 --> 01:08:02,912 Off the record, if you want. Way, way off the record. Rangers' honour. 783 01:08:04,748 --> 01:08:06,750 SerIing... 784 01:08:07,751 --> 01:08:10,336 How Iong you been back? 785 01:08:11,379 --> 01:08:15,216 - Six months. - And you've been in the service how Iong? 786 01:08:15,258 --> 01:08:17,427 1 7 years. 787 01:08:18,470 --> 01:08:22,932 They got me running this inquiry on this girl piIot. 788 01:08:23,016 --> 01:08:25,435 Captain Karen WaIden. 789 01:08:25,518 --> 01:08:29,022 She'll be the first woman to get the Medal of Honour for combat. 790 01:08:29,063 --> 01:08:31,024 Oh, boy. 791 01:08:31,065 --> 01:08:35,570 And everybody in the beItway wants a piece of this one, right? 792 01:08:35,653 --> 01:08:41,326 l just want to get something cIear. This time, just want somebody to be a hero. 793 01:08:42,327 --> 01:08:44,996 l want to get something right. 794 01:08:45,079 --> 01:08:47,248 Cos Al Bathra... 795 01:08:52,420 --> 01:08:55,423 AI Bathra. You taIked to Boylar's parents? 796 01:08:55,507 --> 01:08:57,675 Yeah. 797 01:08:57,759 --> 01:09:02,305 - Do they know? - They heard from a few of his friends. 798 01:09:02,388 --> 01:09:05,058 Jesus... 799 01:09:05,099 --> 01:09:07,477 The Army, they... 800 01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:12,774 They toId BoyIar's parents he died from enemy fire. l toId them that. 801 01:09:13,274 --> 01:09:19,280 l carried the message, went to the funeral, watched his mother cry her eyes out. 802 01:09:19,322 --> 01:09:25,119 l stood there and Iooked his father in the eye and toId him his son died brave under fire. 803 01:09:25,203 --> 01:09:30,250 And l was the one who gave the order to fire. I did it. 804 01:09:31,334 --> 01:09:35,839 Then the Army gave me a medaI for bravery and vaIour. 805 01:09:37,006 --> 01:09:39,968 Then they buried me... 806 01:09:40,009 --> 01:09:42,971 in medaIs. 807 01:09:43,012 --> 01:09:46,558 Got a sense of humour, don't they? 808 01:09:52,480 --> 01:09:57,318 Can't remember anything else except being in the Army. 809 01:09:57,360 --> 01:10:01,698 Either being in it or wanting to be in it. 810 01:10:04,534 --> 01:10:06,870 It's aII I know. 811 01:10:11,833 --> 01:10:13,835 Look, you need to sIeep. 812 01:10:13,877 --> 01:10:20,300 You caII me any time. Anything you want to say about anything, on or off the record. 813 01:10:20,341 --> 01:10:23,511 l'm going to Ieave you aIone for a while. 814 01:10:29,017 --> 01:10:33,938 Ilario. Are you saying that you can't find him or that he's absent without Ieave? 815 01:10:34,022 --> 01:10:38,401 - That's an I-L... - That's right, specialist Ilario. 816 01:10:38,484 --> 01:10:41,070 - WeII, we contacted the MPs. - Roger. 817 01:10:41,154 --> 01:10:42,739 An apprehension team's out there Iooking for him now. 818 01:10:42,822 --> 01:10:44,532 Roger that. 819 01:10:44,574 --> 01:10:45,867 Thank you. 820 01:10:45,950 --> 01:10:50,538 Did she display any fear when she had to make these life-and-death decisions? 821 01:10:50,622 --> 01:10:53,124 No. No, never. 822 01:10:53,207 --> 01:10:59,255 Karen... the captain, she had this quality. The heavier the pressure, the caImer she got. 823 01:10:59,339 --> 01:11:02,842 And she put up with a Iot of shit to become an officer. 824 01:11:02,884 --> 01:11:07,221 You know, had to work twice as hard as everybody eIse, be twice as good. 825 01:11:07,305 --> 01:11:11,059 She'd never Iet her guard down, show any sign of weakness. 826 01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:14,145 But she was tough. She couId handIe it. 827 01:11:14,228 --> 01:11:18,232 And so, Iadies and gentIemen, what I have to say to you in cIosing 828 01:11:18,316 --> 01:11:23,738 is to go forth, to command wiseIy, to advise prudentIy, 829 01:11:23,780 --> 01:11:28,785 to protect with vigiIance and to judge with care. 830 01:11:28,868 --> 01:11:30,912 And above aII, 831 01:11:30,954 --> 01:11:36,793 to defend with all your heart, aII your souI and aII your courage 832 01:11:36,876 --> 01:11:43,257 the Iives of the men and women under your command, and the United States of America. 833 01:11:45,718 --> 01:11:48,930 Are you now telling me you gonna report against her getting the medaI? 834 01:11:48,972 --> 01:11:50,640 As I tried to explain to the White House, 835 01:11:50,723 --> 01:11:54,310 there should be a further investigation before we move forward. The discrepancies... 836 01:11:54,394 --> 01:11:57,397 Another matter compIetely. Write up a second report. We'll investigate. 837 01:11:57,438 --> 01:12:00,733 That's my point, sir. Ilario's disappeared. 838 01:12:00,775 --> 01:12:02,443 - Altameyer's missing. - Who? 839 01:12:02,527 --> 01:12:04,320 AItameyer, sir. Walden's crew chief. 840 01:12:04,404 --> 01:12:08,116 VA hospitaI's transferred him out three weeks ago. Paperwork's missing, the computers... 841 01:12:08,199 --> 01:12:09,993 - Doesn't he have any famiIy? - Negative. 842 01:12:10,076 --> 01:12:12,787 Fucking VA. We can't wait, Nat. 843 01:12:12,870 --> 01:12:15,790 You cannot imagine the kind of heat I'm getting on this. 844 01:12:15,873 --> 01:12:18,918 Everybody wants it. Senators, congressmen... 845 01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:23,798 One littIe shiny piece of something for peopIe to beIieve in. 846 01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:26,759 - Whole episode. - WaIden or AI Bathra? 847 01:12:26,801 --> 01:12:29,137 Both, damn it, both. 848 01:12:29,220 --> 01:12:32,640 - Submit your report today. - I'm sorry, sir. 849 01:12:33,641 --> 01:12:35,810 l won't put my name on an incomplete report. 850 01:12:35,852 --> 01:12:40,273 Should l remind you who recommended you for this when no-one eIse'd touch you? 851 01:12:40,314 --> 01:12:43,317 Are you saying that you chose me because l wouldn't rock the boat? 852 01:12:43,359 --> 01:12:47,071 Dereliction of duty, drunk and disorderIy, conduct unbecoming. 853 01:12:47,155 --> 01:12:48,865 At best, a dishonourabIe discharge. 854 01:12:48,948 --> 01:12:51,868 At worst, AI Bathra aIone gives us pIenty of grounds if we want. 855 01:12:51,951 --> 01:12:54,495 At least somebody is finaIIy wiIIing to come out and say it. 856 01:12:54,537 --> 01:12:59,083 Nat, don't do this. I couId give you a direct order to submit your report. 857 01:12:59,167 --> 01:13:00,501 Yes, you couId. 858 01:13:08,718 --> 01:13:11,512 Put HiIIerman back on the WaIden file. 859 01:13:12,221 --> 01:13:17,143 l handed this to you, Nat, as a way back. You couId've had one heII of a career. 860 01:13:18,603 --> 01:13:24,192 And you give Meredith my best. Tell her I didn't have any choice. 861 01:13:24,233 --> 01:13:26,861 l'm going to finish this report. 862 01:13:26,903 --> 01:13:29,405 On my own, if I have to. 863 01:13:29,489 --> 01:13:32,158 l'm going to get this one right. 864 01:13:43,753 --> 01:13:46,631 - You want one? - No, thank you. 865 01:13:46,714 --> 01:13:51,719 Why is it peopIe never want to eat when they got something important to say? 866 01:13:51,761 --> 01:13:54,680 l aIways want to eat. 867 01:13:58,476 --> 01:14:01,020 Need you to help me find somebody. 868 01:14:01,062 --> 01:14:05,566 - You want my heIp? - Name's AItameyer. Steven Altameyer. 869 01:14:06,651 --> 01:14:10,404 He was the crew chief on the medevac chopper that was piloted by Karen Walden. 870 01:14:10,488 --> 01:14:13,866 - One supposed to get a MedaI of Honour? - The very one. 871 01:14:13,908 --> 01:14:16,244 The Army's usually very tidy about its peopIe. 872 01:14:16,285 --> 01:14:18,913 Yeah, usually, but not this time. 873 01:14:20,414 --> 01:14:22,750 First he demobbed. 874 01:14:23,668 --> 01:14:28,005 Then they had him in a VA hospital, they transferred him, now no-one can find him. 875 01:14:28,089 --> 01:14:31,425 Why do you need me? Can't someone in the Pentagon heIp? 876 01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:33,845 l'm out of the loop. 877 01:14:33,928 --> 01:14:36,597 Somebody pissed at you? 878 01:14:37,765 --> 01:14:40,601 - I'm out of the Ioop. - Somebody important? 879 01:14:40,685 --> 01:14:44,939 - Hey, Iook. You want to heIp me or not? - Hey, who caIIed who here? 880 01:14:46,232 --> 01:14:49,735 Yeah, sure, l'II help. Just teII me why l'm doing it. 881 01:14:49,777 --> 01:14:52,446 When you go after stories, you want them to be right, yes? 882 01:14:52,530 --> 01:14:54,323 Yeah. 883 01:14:54,407 --> 01:14:58,119 - So do l. - OK. 884 01:14:59,203 --> 01:15:04,333 So, I help you find this AItameyer, and in return...? 885 01:15:11,716 --> 01:15:14,218 There's a tape. 886 01:15:14,302 --> 01:15:17,597 - Sweet Jesus. There's aIways a tape. - D'you want to hear this? 887 01:15:17,638 --> 01:15:20,224 Yeah, go on. 888 01:15:20,308 --> 01:15:26,063 There's a tape of aII communications between our tanks that night in AI Bathra. 889 01:15:26,147 --> 01:15:28,024 Are they trying to make this tape disappear? 890 01:15:28,107 --> 01:15:32,195 l don't think so, but they're not advertising its existence either. 891 01:15:32,278 --> 01:15:34,363 The Army and its image. 892 01:15:39,452 --> 01:15:41,621 Where do I reach you when I find this AItameyer? 893 01:15:41,662 --> 01:15:44,457 - The Bethesda Arms. - A moteI? 894 01:15:44,498 --> 01:15:48,169 - Bet everything's great in your life, right? - Outstanding. 895 01:15:48,836 --> 01:15:51,839 SerIing, eat something. 896 01:15:51,923 --> 01:15:54,425 You Iook awfuI. 897 01:16:15,780 --> 01:16:18,366 Make me an angeI 898 01:16:18,574 --> 01:16:21,869 FIies from Montgomery 899 01:16:23,329 --> 01:16:26,207 Make me a poster 900 01:16:26,332 --> 01:16:29,669 From an oId rodeo 901 01:16:30,878 --> 01:16:33,756 Just give me one thing 902 01:16:35,216 --> 01:16:39,053 That I can hoId on to 903 01:16:40,304 --> 01:16:43,683 To beIieve in this Iivin' 904 01:16:43,724 --> 01:16:48,896 It's just a hard way to go 905 01:16:50,356 --> 01:16:53,651 To beIieve in this Iivin' 906 01:16:53,734 --> 01:16:56,404 It's just a... 907 01:16:56,487 --> 01:17:00,825 Hard way to go 908 01:17:10,251 --> 01:17:12,420 - HeIIo. - Found AItameyer. 909 01:17:12,753 --> 01:17:14,755 - Got any compIaints? - Excuse me? 910 01:17:14,839 --> 01:17:19,260 Rashes, fatigue, diarrhoea, bIeeding gums, muscIe and joint pain, 911 01:17:19,302 --> 01:17:23,472 Ioss of weight, Ioss of appetite, insomnia, reactions to bright sunIight. 912 01:17:23,556 --> 01:17:27,435 - You name it, we're seeing it. - I drink too much. Does that count? 913 01:17:27,476 --> 01:17:30,938 HeII, we aII drink too much. Here he is. 914 01:17:32,440 --> 01:17:35,276 AItameyer, you want a shave? 915 01:17:35,943 --> 01:17:38,279 A gentIeman here to see you. You want a shave? 916 01:17:38,321 --> 01:17:39,697 What's wrong with him? 917 01:17:39,780 --> 01:17:42,533 Abdominal cancer. At least, that's what's kiIIing him. 918 01:17:42,616 --> 01:17:44,285 There's aII kinds of things wrong with him. 919 01:17:44,327 --> 01:17:47,455 He's never awake very Iong with aII the pain. 920 01:17:47,496 --> 01:17:50,708 - I'II Ieave you two, then. - Thank you. 921 01:17:53,377 --> 01:17:55,838 How you doing, Steven? 922 01:17:56,797 --> 01:17:59,342 l'm CoIoneI Nat SerIing. 923 01:18:00,426 --> 01:18:03,304 l want to taIk to you about Captain Karen WaIden. 924 01:18:05,639 --> 01:18:08,100 They want to give her the Medal of Honour, 925 01:18:08,142 --> 01:18:13,564 and l know that you were there in AI Kufan with her. Roger? 926 01:18:15,775 --> 01:18:19,487 l was... hit. 927 01:18:19,528 --> 01:18:22,490 In the back. Roger. 928 01:18:22,573 --> 01:18:26,535 But you were stiII abIe to get Rady out. 929 01:18:27,620 --> 01:18:30,664 - Rady. - Yeah. 930 01:18:30,873 --> 01:18:32,541 Good man Rady. 931 01:18:37,088 --> 01:18:41,592 l was afraid. 932 01:18:41,675 --> 01:18:44,011 l understand, son. 933 01:18:47,264 --> 01:18:50,393 - That's OK. Take your time. - She was afraid. 934 01:18:50,476 --> 01:18:53,437 She was afraid. 935 01:18:53,521 --> 01:18:55,940 The Captain was afraid? 936 01:18:56,941 --> 01:19:01,445 Not the Captain. 937 01:19:01,529 --> 01:19:06,075 Who then? Was it Rady or lIario? Was lIario afraid? 938 01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,162 Me. 939 01:19:13,207 --> 01:19:15,876 Didn't teII. 940 01:19:17,044 --> 01:19:20,047 You didn't teII what, son? 941 01:19:22,007 --> 01:19:24,635 The major... 942 01:19:25,928 --> 01:19:28,264 Monfriez... 943 01:19:28,347 --> 01:19:30,641 You didn't teII the major... 944 01:19:30,724 --> 01:19:35,104 - You and Monfriez didn't teII the major? - He... 945 01:19:35,187 --> 01:19:37,523 and then they... 946 01:19:38,482 --> 01:19:42,069 - You and Monfriez didn't teII the major. - Then they... 947 01:19:44,572 --> 01:19:47,867 You and Monfriez what, Steven? 948 01:19:47,908 --> 01:19:52,746 - Oh, Jesus. - What is it? TeII me, son. Please. 949 01:19:53,747 --> 01:19:56,083 - What? - The fire. 950 01:19:56,125 --> 01:19:59,587 - What fire? - Oh, Jesus, the fire. 951 01:19:59,628 --> 01:20:01,922 What fire? The napaIm fire? 952 01:20:01,964 --> 01:20:04,967 - Jesus. - You see the napaIm fire. 953 01:20:05,050 --> 01:20:07,595 Tell me what you see. Tell me about the fire, Steven. 954 01:20:07,678 --> 01:20:10,598 You and Monfriez didn't teII the major what about the fire? 955 01:20:10,639 --> 01:20:13,601 - Please, Jesus. - Steven? 956 01:20:13,642 --> 01:20:16,103 Is it napaIm fire? 957 01:20:25,988 --> 01:20:29,116 - What's he doing? - He's upping his meds. Self-medication. 958 01:20:30,117 --> 01:20:33,287 Can you get him to stop? l need to taIk to him. 959 01:20:33,370 --> 01:20:37,124 Give him a break, man. He's feeling no pain now. 960 01:20:56,477 --> 01:20:58,187 Get off my car, sir. 961 01:21:04,401 --> 01:21:06,654 Think you got something to teII me, Sergeant. 962 01:21:06,737 --> 01:21:10,407 l caIIed around. You're off this inquiry, so what are you doing here, SerIing? 963 01:21:10,491 --> 01:21:13,494 Karen Walden sent me. 964 01:21:17,164 --> 01:21:19,833 l just Ieft AItameyer. 965 01:21:24,547 --> 01:21:27,633 What happened out there that was so bad 966 01:21:27,675 --> 01:21:32,263 that it would have AItameyer laying up in a hospital praying to die, 967 01:21:32,346 --> 01:21:35,599 that's got lIario on the run? 968 01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:39,019 That's right, he went AWOL. 969 01:21:39,061 --> 01:21:43,607 What do you think he's gonna tell them about you when they catch him? 970 01:21:43,691 --> 01:21:47,987 Now, you can tell them, or you can teII me. 971 01:21:49,029 --> 01:21:52,950 - What happened out there? - Nothing happened. 972 01:21:54,201 --> 01:21:58,330 Nothing happened, sir. It was a war. 973 01:22:01,542 --> 01:22:04,169 Don't lie to me, soIdier. 974 01:22:04,211 --> 01:22:06,714 Don't lie to me. 975 01:22:07,673 --> 01:22:09,967 Now, it doesn't matter whether she gets this award or not. 976 01:22:10,050 --> 01:22:14,722 It doesn't matter whether I'm on this inquiry, or whether l'm in this Army or not. 977 01:22:14,805 --> 01:22:18,559 l'm going to find out the truth. l guarantee you that. 978 01:22:18,601 --> 01:22:23,230 You said you were a good poker player. Well, look me in the eye. 979 01:22:23,272 --> 01:22:25,983 You think l'm bIuffing? 980 01:22:31,488 --> 01:22:33,866 No, thank you. 981 01:22:33,907 --> 01:22:38,078 You want it. I can smeII how much you want it. lt's coming out of your pores. 982 01:22:46,086 --> 01:22:48,130 Tell me about the fire. 983 01:22:48,213 --> 01:22:50,549 l Iike trains. 984 01:22:50,591 --> 01:22:53,135 Since I was a kid. 985 01:22:53,218 --> 01:22:56,180 Big... Tough... lron. 986 01:22:57,598 --> 01:22:59,725 Used to be iron, anyway. 987 01:22:59,767 --> 01:23:03,646 When I got to boxing pro, I was gonna caII myseIf Johnny "Night Train" Monfriez. 988 01:23:03,729 --> 01:23:06,774 - Don't that have a nice ring to it? - Very nice. 989 01:23:07,691 --> 01:23:10,277 - Don't humour me, man. - Don't humour me, either. 990 01:23:10,319 --> 01:23:12,780 Tell me about the fire. 991 01:23:12,821 --> 01:23:14,990 Where's my other bottIe? 992 01:23:18,827 --> 01:23:22,456 You ever kiII anyone at cIose range with a smaII arm, sir? 993 01:23:22,915 --> 01:23:25,125 It's messy. 994 01:23:33,550 --> 01:23:37,429 No. We're not taIking one of your great big tank guns here. 995 01:23:39,014 --> 01:23:42,976 Oh, that's OK. l know what you did. 996 01:23:43,018 --> 01:23:47,231 Your own men. Guys under your command. 997 01:23:47,314 --> 01:23:49,483 How'd it feel? 998 01:23:49,566 --> 01:23:52,236 - Bad, right? - Very bad, son. 999 01:23:52,319 --> 01:23:54,321 Very bad. 1000 01:23:57,199 --> 01:24:00,619 And you didn't even mean to kiII them. 1001 01:24:02,162 --> 01:24:07,292 l've been a good soIdier. A good soIdier. 1002 01:24:10,838 --> 01:24:13,716 Listen to that whistle. 1003 01:24:13,799 --> 01:24:16,802 Johnny "Night Train" Monfriez. 1004 01:24:17,803 --> 01:24:19,722 Say it. 1005 01:24:19,805 --> 01:24:22,850 Johnny "Night Train" Monfriez. 1006 01:24:26,437 --> 01:24:30,357 - Now get out. - You don't want to do this. Let me heIp you. 1007 01:24:30,399 --> 01:24:33,861 - It's too Iate. - It's never too late. Look at me. 1008 01:24:33,902 --> 01:24:37,865 Things get fucked up in war. l don't give a damn what happened to you over there. 1009 01:24:37,906 --> 01:24:41,118 - You can't do this. - Wrong. 1010 01:24:41,201 --> 01:24:43,996 - I can't do anything eIse. - Yes, you can. 1011 01:24:44,037 --> 01:24:49,042 You can put the car in reverse. Put the gun down. We can heIp each other. 1012 01:24:51,628 --> 01:24:54,590 l don't want to lose another good soIdier. 1013 01:24:59,928 --> 01:25:04,016 l strongIy urge you to dismount the vehicIe, sir. 1014 01:25:22,451 --> 01:25:24,119 Monfriez. 1015 01:26:02,324 --> 01:26:06,286 Imagine going through Iife without thinking about the consequences. 1016 01:26:06,370 --> 01:26:10,207 It's not the doing shit that gets to you, it's the consequences. 1017 01:26:11,708 --> 01:26:14,962 My foIks used to have this pIace out on CaIaveras Lake. 1018 01:26:15,045 --> 01:26:17,798 l stiII go out there sometimes. 1019 01:26:21,426 --> 01:26:25,222 Guess you toId me about this pIace so I'd know where to find you. 1020 01:26:25,305 --> 01:26:27,641 It's beautiful. 1021 01:26:31,728 --> 01:26:36,149 The MPs at Fort Stewart found your stash in your Iocker. 1022 01:26:41,238 --> 01:26:44,908 Pretty ingenious pIace to keep it, huh? 1023 01:26:44,992 --> 01:26:48,537 Not if you wanted it to be found. 1024 01:26:50,664 --> 01:26:56,879 - Where'd you hide the needle tracks? - I shoot up between my toes. 1025 01:26:59,298 --> 01:27:03,093 Monfriez is dead. He kiIIed himseIf. 1026 01:27:03,176 --> 01:27:05,178 AItameyer is dying. 1027 01:27:11,685 --> 01:27:13,687 Aren't we aII? 1028 01:27:14,187 --> 01:27:17,858 Mayday, Mayday. Dustoff-3. We're going down... 1029 01:27:26,825 --> 01:27:29,661 And the chopper went down. What happened next? 1030 01:27:29,703 --> 01:27:34,207 What happened next isn't important. It's what happened that night. 1031 01:27:34,291 --> 01:27:36,501 Monfriez wanted to make a run for it. 1032 01:27:36,543 --> 01:27:39,212 You know at dawn we're dead. They'II have reinforcements. 1033 01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:41,882 Escape and evasion, Captain. 1034 01:27:43,842 --> 01:27:46,845 Now's the time to do it. Maybe we slip by them in the dark. 1035 01:27:46,887 --> 01:27:50,641 l toId you, Rady can't be moved. Right, lIario? 1036 01:27:50,724 --> 01:27:55,187 That lung - any movement might kiII him. Then again, he may die just Iying here. 1037 01:27:55,228 --> 01:27:58,857 You see? Rady wiII never make it. I say we go. 1038 01:28:03,153 --> 01:28:06,156 Oh, great. The Captain's crying. 1039 01:28:06,239 --> 01:28:09,117 It's just tension, asshoIe. 1040 01:28:10,243 --> 01:28:12,621 It doesn't mean shit. 1041 01:28:13,997 --> 01:28:17,709 Come on, Captain. l don't want to wait here to die. 1042 01:28:20,087 --> 01:28:22,464 Ilario? 1043 01:28:25,050 --> 01:28:27,052 - I don't know. - Come on. It's a majority. 1044 01:28:27,094 --> 01:28:30,931 Well, that'd be great if this was a democracy, but it isn't. 1045 01:28:30,973 --> 01:28:36,395 We stay with Rady. l wouIdn't risk your Iife. l won't risk his. 1046 01:28:36,436 --> 01:28:39,272 So maybe if we surrender, the lraqis wouId doctor him up. 1047 01:28:39,356 --> 01:28:41,108 No surrender. 1048 01:28:44,277 --> 01:28:47,114 - I hear something moving out there. - I say we make for the chopper now. 1049 01:28:47,155 --> 01:28:49,908 And l say I heard enough of that shit. 1050 01:28:49,950 --> 01:28:52,869 You don't have to go with us. We don't even need your permission. 1051 01:28:52,953 --> 01:28:54,913 l am in command here. 1052 01:28:55,455 --> 01:28:57,916 Well, maybe not any more. 1053 01:29:01,628 --> 01:29:03,547 Give me the saw, Monfriez. 1054 01:29:03,630 --> 01:29:07,592 l can't stop you from running, but you're not taking our fire power with you. 1055 01:29:10,053 --> 01:29:13,181 You're not taking away my weapon. 1056 01:29:16,977 --> 01:29:19,229 Yes, l am. 1057 01:29:19,312 --> 01:29:21,898 Hey, I can make a white fIag, aII right? 1058 01:29:21,982 --> 01:29:24,943 There's no way you're taking away my weapon, cunt. 1059 01:29:25,819 --> 01:29:29,906 Section 28-J, code of military justice. 1060 01:29:29,990 --> 01:29:33,952 Mutiny, an offence punishable by death. 1061 01:29:38,832 --> 01:29:42,836 - Jesus, Monfriez. - Shut up. She's trying to get us kiIIed. 1062 01:29:44,963 --> 01:29:48,300 Ilario, who you with? 1063 01:29:51,428 --> 01:29:54,139 Come on, shithead. Do you want to die? 1064 01:29:59,394 --> 01:30:01,980 PIease, Captain. 1065 01:30:15,911 --> 01:30:18,830 They're going away. It was just a probe. 1066 01:30:20,832 --> 01:30:22,501 Shit. 1067 01:30:22,542 --> 01:30:24,628 - Are you aII right? - Shit. 1068 01:30:24,711 --> 01:30:26,713 Oh, my God. 1069 01:30:29,549 --> 01:30:32,594 Shit. l don't fucking beIieve it. 1070 01:30:34,721 --> 01:30:39,059 - Give me your weapon. - Christ, l thought you were firing at me. 1071 01:30:54,032 --> 01:30:57,244 You're wounded, ma'am. Let me see. 1072 01:30:59,204 --> 01:31:01,665 You're with him. 1073 01:31:01,748 --> 01:31:04,417 You got to let me Iook at it. 1074 01:31:04,501 --> 01:31:07,254 Jesus Christ, Iet him look at it. 1075 01:31:07,337 --> 01:31:12,759 l gave birth to a nine-pound baby, asshoIe. l think l can handIe it. 1076 01:31:17,556 --> 01:31:19,933 Cap, we got to get you out of here. 1077 01:31:20,809 --> 01:31:23,854 We stay with Rady. 1078 01:31:23,937 --> 01:31:26,773 - And then? - And then... 1079 01:31:45,125 --> 01:31:46,960 Incoming. 1080 01:31:47,002 --> 01:31:50,130 1 50 metres and cIosing. 1081 01:31:52,132 --> 01:31:54,134 140. 1082 01:31:56,178 --> 01:31:58,972 - 1 30. - Give me my weapon. 1083 01:31:59,055 --> 01:32:01,266 - Ilario, how's Rady? - He's dead. 1084 01:32:01,308 --> 01:32:04,853 - No, he's aIive. - 1 00 metres. Captain, give him his weapon. 1085 01:32:05,312 --> 01:32:07,856 - This is insane. Give me my weapon. - Shut up. 1086 01:32:08,523 --> 01:32:12,485 90 metres and closing. 80... 1087 01:32:15,322 --> 01:32:17,490 l'm sorry. 1088 01:32:22,162 --> 01:32:25,707 OK. We'II get you out of here, Captain. It's aII over. 1089 01:32:26,666 --> 01:32:30,337 No, Monfriez, it's not over. 1090 01:32:30,420 --> 01:32:33,006 There wiII be a reckoning. Count on it. 1091 01:32:37,552 --> 01:32:39,638 What's that? 1092 01:32:43,391 --> 01:32:45,393 There's the rescue. 1093 01:32:59,574 --> 01:33:02,494 Let's move it. Move it. 1094 01:33:02,535 --> 01:33:04,537 No. Wait. 1095 01:33:05,956 --> 01:33:07,999 HeIp Rady. 1096 01:33:09,542 --> 01:33:11,878 We're pinned down here. 1097 01:33:24,808 --> 01:33:27,852 Ilario, give me the M-1 6. 1098 01:33:28,395 --> 01:33:31,856 Give me the goddamn M-1 6. 1099 01:33:48,081 --> 01:33:50,959 l'll cover you. 1100 01:33:51,418 --> 01:33:53,545 Go. 1101 01:33:53,586 --> 01:33:55,755 - I'II cover you. - Negative, ma'am. 1102 01:33:55,797 --> 01:33:59,426 Come back for me with a stretcher and more guns. 1103 01:33:59,509 --> 01:34:02,429 - Karen, pIease. - Go. It's an order. 1104 01:34:02,470 --> 01:34:04,973 - Karen, pIease. - Go. 1105 01:34:35,295 --> 01:34:37,297 Wait. 1106 01:34:39,299 --> 01:34:41,301 Wait. 1107 01:34:46,139 --> 01:34:47,932 Where's WaIden? 1108 01:34:47,974 --> 01:34:51,144 She's dead. 1109 01:35:01,738 --> 01:35:04,699 No. 1110 01:36:09,764 --> 01:36:14,602 Monfriez said she wouId have court-martialled us. 1111 01:36:14,686 --> 01:36:18,148 AItameyer was too fucked up to say anything. 1112 01:36:21,192 --> 01:36:26,990 She was probabIy kiIIed by smaII arms before the napaIm ever hit. 1113 01:36:29,742 --> 01:36:35,039 Either way, she never couId have survived that stomach wound. 1114 01:36:35,081 --> 01:36:37,750 You think that matters? 1115 01:36:44,090 --> 01:36:45,425 No. 1116 01:36:47,802 --> 01:36:49,804 No. 1117 01:37:09,324 --> 01:37:12,327 l couldn't bear to send this. 1118 01:37:12,410 --> 01:37:16,664 l didn't even want to touch it. 1119 01:37:33,890 --> 01:37:37,602 Can you get it to her parents for me? 1120 01:37:39,479 --> 01:37:41,689 Can you...? PIease? 1121 01:37:59,916 --> 01:38:03,711 - Listen, l'm going to have to call you back. - You got off the phone for me? 1122 01:38:03,795 --> 01:38:07,090 - You're gonna want me there for this. - Meaning? 1123 01:38:07,173 --> 01:38:11,344 Remember that stereo system you toId me not to buy cos who needs a dual cassette deck? 1124 01:38:11,427 --> 01:38:14,681 When does anyone ever have a reason to copy a tape? 1125 01:38:15,306 --> 01:38:19,686 Nat, just the man I wanted to see. Do you know CoIonel SerIing? 1126 01:38:19,727 --> 01:38:24,649 This is Tony Gartner of The Washington Post. He was with the 9th in Vietnam. 1127 01:38:24,691 --> 01:38:26,401 - Mr Gartner. - CoIonel. 1128 01:38:26,484 --> 01:38:27,860 Take a seat, Nat. 1129 01:38:27,944 --> 01:38:31,364 He's foIIowing up our investigation of Al Bathra, 1130 01:38:31,406 --> 01:38:36,452 and it seems that he has a few questions that he'd Iike to ask us. 1131 01:38:36,536 --> 01:38:39,622 - Let's give him every facility. - I appreciate that, GeneraI. 1132 01:38:39,706 --> 01:38:43,251 Some ground ruIes though. l insist that we be aIIowed to scheduIe 1133 01:38:43,334 --> 01:38:46,838 the release of aII information to the public regarding casualties. 1134 01:38:47,338 --> 01:38:52,010 l reaIIy wish l couId accommodate you, sir, but, unfortunately, 1135 01:38:52,051 --> 01:38:56,889 we'II be going with a story based on a tape that I've acquired 1136 01:38:56,973 --> 01:39:00,059 of aII radio communications that night. 1137 01:39:02,478 --> 01:39:08,359 So, I'd like you to Iisten and then comment for the record. 1138 01:39:08,401 --> 01:39:12,155 l can't comment for the record. This is an ongoing investigation. 1139 01:39:13,990 --> 01:39:15,950 Reverse right. 1140 01:39:16,034 --> 01:39:19,996 Sabre-6, this is Bobcat-5. Enemy tangos. Enemy tanks in our Iines. Over. 1141 01:39:20,079 --> 01:39:24,208 Sabre,-6, this is Cougar-6. Confirm that l have enemy tangos at phase line delta... 1142 01:39:24,250 --> 01:39:27,670 - I don't think any more of this... - This is what happened, GeneraI. 1143 01:39:27,754 --> 01:39:32,258 Liberty-6, this is Sabre-6. We got enemy tanks in our fIank. Out. 1144 01:39:32,300 --> 01:39:34,427 - PateIIa, find me a target. - I think I got one, sir. 1145 01:39:34,510 --> 01:39:37,764 - Do you or do you not have a target? - It must be. They're firing at us. 1146 01:39:37,847 --> 01:39:40,391 - Loader. - Up, sir. 1147 01:39:40,433 --> 01:39:43,227 - Fire. - On the way. 1148 01:39:43,269 --> 01:39:45,021 Target. We got that sucker. 1149 01:39:45,104 --> 01:39:48,149 Sabre-6, we just Iost Cougar-6. Repeat, we just lost BoyIar. 1150 01:39:48,232 --> 01:39:51,110 - Roger that. We got him. - Say again, you just Iit up a friendly. 1151 01:39:51,194 --> 01:39:56,449 - Roger that. We... what? - You just Iit up a friendIy, goddamn it. 1152 01:39:57,617 --> 01:40:03,289 Cougar-6 was one of your own Abrams, CoIoneI SerIing. ls that correct? 1153 01:40:03,373 --> 01:40:06,000 Yes, that's correct. 1154 01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:10,922 Sabre-6, Nat, what's happening out there? Sabre-6, report. 1155 01:40:10,963 --> 01:40:13,633 - PateIIa, was that one of our tanks? - They fired. 1156 01:40:13,716 --> 01:40:16,219 - At us or at the T-72s? - I don't know. 1157 01:40:16,302 --> 01:40:19,222 - At us or at the T-72s, PateIIa? - I don't know. 1158 01:40:19,305 --> 01:40:21,766 CoIoneI SerIing, report status now. 1159 01:40:22,308 --> 01:40:25,520 - They have range on us. - All Sabre eIements, this is Sabre-6. 1160 01:40:25,603 --> 01:40:29,816 Stop aII tanks, turn on your Iights. l say again, stop aII tanks and turn on your Iights. 1161 01:40:29,857 --> 01:40:32,276 Sabre-6, Nat, what's happening out there? 1162 01:40:34,362 --> 01:40:35,947 Load us up. 1163 01:40:35,988 --> 01:40:39,409 PateIIa, find me a target. Snap out of it. Find me a target. 1164 01:40:39,492 --> 01:40:40,660 PateIIa, come on. 1165 01:40:42,995 --> 01:40:44,664 - Target. - We're up. 1166 01:40:44,706 --> 01:40:47,166 - Lights on or off? - Off. 1167 01:40:48,876 --> 01:40:51,045 - Fire. - On the way. 1168 01:40:54,215 --> 01:40:56,175 - Sir? - Fire. 1169 01:41:01,514 --> 01:41:04,100 CoIoneI SerIing, report status now. 1170 01:41:04,183 --> 01:41:08,646 Sabre-6. Situation under controI, GeneraI. 1171 01:41:09,647 --> 01:41:14,819 GeneraI, CoIoneI Serling's order to activate Iights, 1172 01:41:14,861 --> 01:41:19,657 was that a standard response to enemy infiItration of the Iines? 1173 01:41:19,699 --> 01:41:24,328 At the criticaI moment, in spite of terribIe Iosses, 1174 01:41:24,370 --> 01:41:27,832 CoIoneI SerIing didn't hesitate to act. 1175 01:41:27,874 --> 01:41:30,501 Ordering those tanks to turn on their lights 1176 01:41:30,543 --> 01:41:33,379 saved the lives of God knows how many of our men. 1177 01:41:34,172 --> 01:41:37,925 Heroic acts arise out of desperate circumstances. 1178 01:41:39,051 --> 01:41:43,055 l have no troubIe at aII beIieving that CoIoneI SerIing is a hero. 1179 01:41:43,097 --> 01:41:45,224 Like Captain Karen WaIden. 1180 01:41:45,266 --> 01:41:48,895 Did you know that for the first time a woman is being considered 1181 01:41:48,936 --> 01:41:54,317 for the MedaI of Honour for her performance under fire? And... 1182 01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:58,780 CoIoneI SerIing is just finishing up the inquiry. 1183 01:41:58,863 --> 01:42:00,740 How's that going, Nat? 1184 01:42:08,331 --> 01:42:10,750 l think... 1185 01:42:13,419 --> 01:42:18,508 in order to honour a soldier like Karen WaIden, 1186 01:42:18,591 --> 01:42:24,263 we have to teII the truth, GeneraI, about what happened over there. 1187 01:42:26,682 --> 01:42:32,396 The whoIe, hard, coId truth. 1188 01:42:33,940 --> 01:42:39,195 And until we do that, we dishonour her... 1189 01:42:39,278 --> 01:42:45,660 and every soIdier who died, who gave their Iife for their country. 1190 01:43:07,390 --> 01:43:10,142 My fuII report, GeneraI. 1191 01:43:14,647 --> 01:43:21,028 Few of us are given the opportunity, even fewer the courage, 1192 01:43:21,112 --> 01:43:26,033 to sacrifice ourselves for the lives of our comrades. 1193 01:43:26,117 --> 01:43:29,120 In daiIy life, even as in battIe, 1194 01:43:29,161 --> 01:43:34,834 each one of us is mysteriousIy and irrevocabIy bound to our feIIow man. 1195 01:43:35,877 --> 01:43:40,840 And yet, it is onIy in death that the power of this bond 1196 01:43:40,882 --> 01:43:44,552 is finally tested and proven. 1197 01:43:45,636 --> 01:43:53,102 And who among us really knows how he might respond when that moment comes? 1198 01:44:24,342 --> 01:44:27,345 l guess we've been expecting you. 1199 01:44:28,262 --> 01:44:31,140 First of aII, Iet me... 1200 01:44:31,223 --> 01:44:36,145 Let me just say that there was nothing that... 1201 01:44:38,064 --> 01:44:42,234 Tom and l wouIdn't do for each other. Nothing. 1202 01:44:42,276 --> 01:44:45,404 He was a good soIdier. 1203 01:44:45,446 --> 01:44:48,366 He was Iike a brother to me. 1204 01:44:50,117 --> 01:44:53,871 That night, 25 February... 1205 01:44:55,247 --> 01:44:59,210 there were enemy tanks in our Iines. 1206 01:45:01,337 --> 01:45:04,090 We thought... 1207 01:45:06,425 --> 01:45:09,929 l thought that... 1208 01:45:10,012 --> 01:45:12,765 Tom's tank was an enemy tank. 1209 01:45:16,268 --> 01:45:18,771 And... 1210 01:45:25,236 --> 01:45:28,447 l gave the order to fire. 1211 01:45:32,451 --> 01:45:36,080 God heIp me. l... 1212 01:45:37,915 --> 01:45:40,126 Yeah, I kiIIed him. 1213 01:45:46,173 --> 01:45:49,176 As for the funeraI... 1214 01:45:50,261 --> 01:45:53,264 the Iies the Army toId... 1215 01:45:54,765 --> 01:45:57,768 and the lies that I toId... 1216 01:46:00,146 --> 01:46:03,149 to you, l can only... 1217 01:46:05,568 --> 01:46:08,904 beg for your forgiveness. 1218 01:46:13,492 --> 01:46:16,662 As far as the... 1219 01:46:18,122 --> 01:46:21,417 As far as that night... 1220 01:46:22,293 --> 01:46:28,716 l guess there's no way that l can even begin to ask you to forgive me. 1221 01:46:29,675 --> 01:46:34,805 l know that, but it's a burden you're going to have to put down sometime. 1222 01:46:36,891 --> 01:46:39,226 Thank you, sir. 1223 01:47:06,921 --> 01:47:09,507 Mr President. 1224 01:47:38,619 --> 01:47:40,579 Dear Mom and Dad, 1225 01:47:40,663 --> 01:47:44,416 weII, this is it - the big push. 1226 01:47:44,500 --> 01:47:47,253 Looks Iike it's gonna reaIIy happen. 1227 01:47:47,294 --> 01:47:49,421 And l'm afraid, 1228 01:47:49,463 --> 01:47:55,010 not of being hurt or kiIIed, weII, kind of, but not much. 1229 01:47:55,094 --> 01:47:58,264 My only regret wiII be to never see you two again, 1230 01:47:58,347 --> 01:48:00,933 or not see Anne Marie grow up. 1231 01:48:01,016 --> 01:48:05,104 But l know she's in good hands, the best. 1232 01:48:05,187 --> 01:48:09,358 What I'm reaIIy afraid of is that I might Iet my peopIe down, my crew. 1233 01:48:09,441 --> 01:48:14,155 These peopIe depend on me. They put their Iives in my hands. 1234 01:48:14,238 --> 01:48:16,490 l just can't faiI 'em. 1235 01:48:47,771 --> 01:48:50,566 Now, I know if you get this letter it means l'm dead. 1236 01:48:50,649 --> 01:48:55,029 l onIy hope that I've made you proud, that I did my job, 1237 01:48:55,112 --> 01:49:00,451 and l didn't Iet down my country, my crew, my feIIow soIdiers. 1238 01:49:00,492 --> 01:49:02,703 l Iove you guys. 1239 01:49:02,786 --> 01:49:06,040 Never stop teIIing Anne Marie how much I love her. 1240 01:49:06,123 --> 01:49:08,626 Your daughter, Karen. 1241 01:49:37,029 --> 01:49:39,031 - Got it? - Yeah.