Original subtitles

Subtitled by Ed Kill

Slide start 1 August 69.

Daspo documentary lessons learned team.

Officer in charge LT R. Drewry.

That is especially for

check this out

now it's for the men and H-HC which is headquarters

headquarters company 2° tie in

22° infantry.

Recon IV-II 25° infantry.

- You done with this? - Yes sir.

- You let me know when you want to start

I'm rolling now sir.

Drury Richard B. 2° lieutenant

headquarters and headquarters company 173° Airborne Brigade

Vietnam, lessons learned project DASPO.

- What? - Mission, sir?

Reconstitution Central Highlands

our goal is to record procedures peculiar to this combat situation.

- You got a cold nose.

Which one of you sergeant O'donnegan?

- Yes sir. - Glad to be working with you Sergeant.

I´m new officer in charge.

Major Nolan briefly on your mission and we're prepared to move out.

We'll see about that.

- TV News? - Nope, army.

What about a roll call?

Easy, Private E-II soon to be promoted to PFC

private fucking civilian

27 days in a wake up I'm short sir.

How short are you?

I'm so short I can parachute off a dime sir.

Spec-IV Baldwin, San Bernardino, California.

Don't look at me look at the camera.

Say something.

- Something. - Teste, teste

1,2,1,2.

Jingle bells mortar shells V.C. in the grass

you can take your merry Christmas stick it up your ass hey.

Thorpe William US-16848107

Specialist 4th Class Machine Gunner.

What a lifer.

I fuck in the ear so you can hear me coming.

- Disgusting. - I think they're in love.

We are engaged.

You with the hat?

How about selling on?

Spec V Fry Weapon Specialist

hair lift, hump back, half crazy

I am not responsible for my own action.

All right, let's get our shit together we got a mission.

How about your name?

Get that thing on my face.

Push push push

push push push

push push push

Spinning Lizard II is more confirmed than ever before

and prep 5 sectors 759

ah II-IV teammates at home

pick up the lead bird in 0-3 days

back up this village Song Be 2-5 Roger

hightower system 4 up 3 out

Lock and load!

High tower 3 this is spring inquisitor far over

hello II-IV High Tower we are approaching

l-C Crow insert swift 9-3-8

Roger II-IV

back in the air

Roger the spinning Lizard too far out

okay Chester this is the best, get them out

Move it out let's go move it out...

...out out out move it out let's go let's go let's go

Quick like a bunny fox.

Ok turning the barrel, go.

Stone n° 3 stone n° 3

This is Outrider II we are down and happy say again down and happy.

Sitrep, Alpha, Oscar, Kilo, Over.

Alright alright this is number III down and happy

Alpha, Oscar, Kilo, Over.

Alright, out.

You ever heard a noise discipline?

Pretty boy, Easy

- Get these weapons and shit together - Pretty boy duct tape

When he says your shit's flaky your shit's flaky

you can make more noise then two skeletons fucking on a thin roof

More noise than a Chinese gang bang

We'll just screw away some of this bearing equipment

I just report in, they told me I was going out in the field

I just finished getting my gear from quartermaster

didn't have time to pack it right.

-You never been on line sir? -No.

shit, I can't believe they gave us a cherry LT.

Shit, yes sir we need an FNG

no offense, sir.

FNG ? That's a fucking new guy, sir.

Find a branch to pull the pin never John Wayne

your grenade sir wouldn't want to blow yourself up

- Chess wound his nature way of saying hey. - You fucked up.

I heard that a guy signed for this unit, but his chooper crashed.

You've been in country, fresh meat

48 days down 308 to go.

26 days. You're so new you ain't been born yet.

- Me?, I am short - Short are you?

I'm so short you gotta dig a hole to kick my ass

What's your MLS? 84 Charlie mopic.

No kidding, 84 Charlie? That'd be better than 11 Bravo

- Mopic whats stand for? Like Motown

- Mopower - Mofucker

-No, stand for motion picture. -Must be a nice getting over job

used to handle gripping grins, award ceremonies...

...change of command stuff like that

what's going on?

- It's just a fucking lizard - Let's move out.

Don't get behind me I follow you, follow me.

I want this for the record

I'm not gonna let that happen again,

you point a gun at me again I'll have you up in front of a court martial.

Dig this Lieutenant You ain't in the rear no more

You know for a court martial you need more than one officer

the only brass I see is yours out here the bush is the boss.

I'm not walking in here off the street I've had infantry training

stateside Mickey mouse shit don't cut it here sir

this is Charlie's game, his rules

we learned how to play it that's why we're here

That's why I'm here

that's why he's here

to bring back some of that training

I'm willing to learn

but not what the gun pointed at my head.

All right we'll teach you.

But we don't grade on a curve this pass will fail

I have to point my gun at you again I'll pull the fucking trigger

Flower power.

What do you men know about your mission?

Same old shit, find Charlie

get us to their intel shoot some gooks (vietcongs)

-But the rest in the world of hurt -C4 plastic explosives

You people don't have much respect for rank or your mission?

Hey don't get froggy LT.

He's still pissed at OD?

Put a gun to my head and threatened to kill me

I don´t take that kind of shit

don't fuck with OD man he's a walking razor boy.

You only take a run at him if you're thinking about suicide

he's one tough dude

He thinks you're getting in our way

OD so tough he eats the boogers out of a dead man's nose

You are a gross fucker

He's a righteous dude he just told you to be quiet

OD put lot of slap for us man.

- We're all brothers here, - Fucking family.

You people act like a some kind of picnic

-Man's got to eat sir -Catch your pecks when you can

-Big thing sir -There it is

- Hey mopic - It's my weed

I'm just gonna hold it for you

just hold it for him and don't shit me Easy.

I wouldn't shit you Hammer you're my favorite turd.

if you are a T.O. why do you have a Carbine?

I thought for radio man was just a .45

Well LT, everybody needs a gook shooter

- It's all clear - Ok, hot chow OD.

We don't do do, we do business, right Easy?

- Please come on... - You trying to get me killed?

- Sargent? That was in my pack

I'm coming back here in six months to harvest

Sorry sir, but the smoking light is out for this operation

don't do that again soldier.

Don't get all bit out of shape about it sir it's a habit you forget

One match at night could get us all wasted

on a good day you can smell cigarette smoke a quarter mile away

especially menthols.

Pretty boy get them some salt tablets

no offense sir, lessons learned.

And mopic too.

Thanks

6th Battalion South Vietnamese

LT those are our dinks and American Advisors

they calling coordinates for Medevac.

- How far away are they? Can we help them?

Even if we get there in time

We don't have enough firepower to make a difference

-Primary mission is recon sir, move out

Ok go back.

-Sunset Nam -It's gorgeous

Fuck gorgeous

Days almost over and I'm one day shorter

I hate this fucking place

LT destroy the whole fucking country north and south.

Turn into big quartermasters in the sky and say:

Hey motherfucker this place is beyond repair

Well you should have seen it when I first came over

Elephants and tigers on Ho Chi Mim trail.

Fucking elephants

We stamp away from the trail at night

Chucks sticks the trail

Unlikely to trip over us.

To warm for that flak jacket LT

Chicken and rice

One of Chop chop.

All right first guard Cracker, Hammer

me, Pretty Boy and Easy.

I can take a shift

I don't know you

You're not used to humping your beat

you need certain time

How about I take a shift?

After dinner, Mopic got a can of peaches

one a fruit cocktail I saved in his pack.

You sorry ass motherfucker

you meant, let that poor dude carry those cans huh

Kiss my ass Pretty Boy he need a training

Some good news here

All choppers stuck

negative visibility to all altitudes

Roger that, tell me about it.

Still they haven't gotten their medvacs

What is really bad inland choppers can't get off the ground

They told him they might get choppered out late, tomorrow

But a definitly maybe.

You better wrap up your packs Mopic.

Hey what's that?

Tetracycline

Got the clap last time in Sin City

The Nam, where else in the world

can you get a contagious disease for only five bucks

that's not so bad

Crabs are no big deal

get your yourself a bayonet

Can with a lot of fluid

set fire to your pubic hair

and when a little fuckers run for the high ground

like your dick, you stab it to the death

Turn that shit off!

Sergeant we need to do some background interviews on each man

I thought it best to start with you

What kind of interviews?

You know, where you from?, what you did before the army? background stuff

it's my private life

I ain't got no business in my private life

Ok then we'll do you Sergeant Fry

Spec V

We'll make a little later on if that's the right solution

Do easy!

- How long you on the line? - Forever

I got four purple hearts I got two bronze stars with V.

Got enough green weenies to open a hotdog place.

antenna is like wearing a target on your back

Let's talk walk into a grocery store order some chapstick

guy says cash or charge he says just put on my bill

So what are you gonna do when you get home?

I don't know

get high, hang out

check out my wife

Why'd you join them?

Judge volunteered me

there's even better they'd lock me up.

What's the problem with war?

too violent.

- That judge blackmailed you - No no no, he did me a favor

army saved me from jail

unless I end up stuck here

so far they just gave fifteen minute to death, took my rank, took my pay

I can handle it

bush pay me from jail OD save me from the bush

The only thing I really hate the nights you know

starting to spook me.

I'm too short for this you know

when you get short you get paranoid beacoup

Paranoid think people are trying to kill you

- when people are trying to kill you - Why do you do it?

it's all I know.

be out here with my buddies

these guys would be out of luck without me on the horn

my buddies

Hey check this out.

Army Forces Radio

One giant blast the fuck out of here...

...my green monkeys are shooting the hell out of each other

don't operate tell him get another illumination round over

9-0-8-4-7 assists

Audio operate 3, standing by

same sentence in your caps

illumination shot out, over

I don't know I don't even know how many men...

Medic!!!

We got gooks inside the perimeter! we need to get out.

They're calling in artillery on their own position

Poor fuckers!

We should have helped them

We could have been there

and gotten wasted with them?

Yeah go ahead sleep, a 120 men just died

I got a lot of dead men in here Lieutenant

don't be so damn eager to get yourself killed

there's plenty of war here for all of us

I had a girl once, I even got engaged

I already had two tours now

You know OD...

...I can't handle much more of this

my shit's getting flaky

just one more time

just one more time?

it's our last mission

Easy is going home after this

lose a finger can't make a fist no more

you got it I can hack it one more time

So you just roll your shit up, tight little balls,

flick it into Charlie eyes

Ought to shake those out for you put them on

all sorts of nasty critters love to crawl on your boots

You want coffee? Choco? I boiled water for everybody

you are our Sargent now LT?

I figured I'd been riding free

Twenty six in a wake up

I'm so short I could tickle a piss in under the chin

LT?

always put 18 rounds in the magazine

not for 20, spring won't like it might jam

Yeah I know that

Then do your own fucking lessons learned

I dry them out during the day

some guys get away without socks

not me, during monsoon dry socks are better than sex

You spend a lot of time in the field?

Yeah three months of hell

all kind of shit you can imagine, a lot you can't

I've been medevac three times when they thought I was dead

once they even zipped me into a body bag

no I mean, I been in a hole with three other dudes

and mortar round come right in

blow everybody else to mincemeat

caution knocked me out I got blood coming out of my ears

and nose and blood all over me, not all mine

the medics figured I was

dead throw me on a chopper with the bodies

it's no fun waking up there

Now my luck is unfucking unbelievable

I mean we're running across a paddy

.50 caliber opened up catched the dude on my left and wasted him

me? I'm scared

Now I got a hundred stories

I took a round in my helmet, cuted a groove in my hair

that's weird shit, good luck

Good luck...

God, Karma...

...my Karma ran over my dogma

no I mean, it got to be a pain in the ass

dudes hanging close like would rub off, that's boonie voodoo

It'll get strange in the bush I believe in all sorts of strange things

lucky scarves

bibles over their hearts

some ain't even been to church

it's boiling luck

company that will brigade talk about it

I mean we get

hit and dudes hang around me

like I was a steel umbrella

I even start believing it, no I do

at least think God's got something special planned for you

something special good or something special bad?

You always try for running water still waters cold

all sorts out of this stuff

you drive on

Once when we were filling up our canteens

I found five dink bodies further upstream

all rotted to hell pieces of them floating around...

...by then we drunk half the water

- What'd you do?

Fuck it, we drove on, no big thing

Called it soup

That's a war story, isn't it ?

You feel like talking

Yeah what the fuck sir

- You enlist? - Nah, I'm a fucking US man

work for my old man

I couldn't cut that ninety five Mickey Mouse shit

so I rammed around

come from small towns and me and my buddies we own it

Never gives a shit

sure it gives a little static but

it's just a little shit

I think my...

...dad...

...he suggested to the draft board that it was my turn

make a man he said

but I wasn't doing much anything anyway

my buddy started copping out

Larry got married, Ed went to junior college

and I was just painting houses

annoying a little bit everything

You volunteer for this unit?

yeah!

the green line was getting to me and it's just

it's too much dope...

...I figure I might start doing the hard stuff

in a trip on LSD, hash...

This was so fucking boring man

they were starting inspections

spit shy boots in the fucking Nam

You see we got a dick in the rear

nobody fucks with this team

no KP detail no inspections

nobody fucks with us

not even officers

they think we're crazy

-Dinky dau mad killers -Are you?

yeah, we're the same as killers the army's got OD says

You're a hardcore dude

yeah damn right

Mercenaries kill for money, sadists kill for fun...

...paratroopers, they kill for both

fucking airborne pal

Hey Pretty Boy, what about that brass bracelet?

I noticed the all team is wearing them, why is that?

- Because we're brothers. - That's all?

that's not enough?

And the leather one?

does it mean anything?

This one?

Where'd you get it?

Malibu

Always wanted a dog

I think I'll name him Fido

go on go on

Sometimes these guys scare the shit, just we sitting in here

they've got these little bigger ones

we call them fuck you lizards they pop up and: Rooroo!!!

it sounds like somebody's telling you to fuck off

I think I might keep this guy

Fido!!Fido!!

I come from South Carolina

Up north they call us hillbilly, but we ain't

No, the dictionary says a hillbilly is a Michigan farmer

We would just white trash, dirt poor big family

I got four kids myself

two boys and two girls last time I checked

my oldest one made this for me

but the army ain't so bad they've got a good retirement

give me an education

I got my degree.

fucking A.

Black people...

...Puerto Ricans that don't even speak English

Army is the only real equal opportunity employer I ever saw

I could get to be a first sergeant or a warrant officer

and I mean it's pretty good money

Do you figure that, what you're doing here is right?

I don't figure right or wrong about it.

people like me just go day to day spend their time

trying to get food on the table

that's about it

You know my daddy...

...daddy was about the best cabinet maker you ever saw

he didn't get a lot of work because of his hands

he was all twisted up by that damned arthritis

but when he did make something a cabinet or a three legged stool

it was the best goddamn three legged stool he could make

and he taught the same to me

supposed to do your job the best you can

no matter you like it or not

Once I remember he was making this black oak China cabinet black oak

and when the lady it was for, said that

he should paint it white to match her floorboard trim

he painted it white

and I mean it was beautiful black oak too

grain like running water

and he painted it the smoothest cleanest white you ever saw

milk ain't that white

but you do your job

let the ride around to others hell earn you pay

OD feels the same way

that's why him and me are like this

of course that's me on top

being from south Carolina yeah

Do you have a problem being led by black man?

We don't ask questions like that out here that's a real world question

why don't you ask me that back in South Carolina?

You want to ask me something,

why don't you ask me if OD is the best fucking bunny rat I ever met

ask me if OD had the best human being that I've ever humped a rut with

ask me if I love him like a brother or if I'd kill for him

because I do and I have

if I'd lay my own life on the line for him by god I have

or if you done the same for me

I think we're finished here

turn that fucking thing off

There's something up there you should look at

go on

Booby trap

tripwire

see the camouflage has died

- That's a Chinese communist grenade - Could you get that out of the way?

Point man trips the wire, the grenade goes off

takes out hell maybe a slack

the rest of the patrol dives into the brush

they get perforated.

Chuck's got his shit together

trail stick with these

he's around

better walk off the trail

If OD go to heaven he will check the booby traps

Don't look, don't

oh man let's get our butts out of here

Mopic, I am not gonna tell you to get down again

- You got that? - I got it, I got it

looks like your purple hearted LT.

I mean fuck me Alice

last night the ARVN´s shit that's flaky in the booby traps

and now we just about get a Ho Chi Min in sandal on our backs

- What about infection? - I can't hack it easy

some tetracycline, take two each four hours.

it's just that there seems to be gooks everywhere man

I'm too short for this bullshit.

I´m nonsense and better you...

Gave me a pucker factor

pucker factor?

pucker factor man

- It's when your ass - When you're so sweat that shit hits

you kind of feel your asshole pucker up like it starts sucking wind

Like an ambush, that's a pucker factor of 10

waiting for the rounds hit us, it's maybe a 6

- Snipers 10. - Back on that trail was an 8.

- Seven - Nine

three.

I fell asleep

shit the fucking John Wayne

hey LT?

You know you're the first man ever blooded on one of our missions

me first ever?

yeah, that's a bad omen

This war ain't fun no more and now I'm just giving war a bad name

Swamp, feaver

Gooks all over the neighborhood

This freaking radio

Ah damn stuck

oh shit

As usual LT intelligence ain't worth shit

I'll tell you I'm getting the Mach-One

351, 4 barrel hearst, 4 speed

red on red, I orderer trought the PX

- He'll be waiting for me when I get home - S-2 had movement here

we found additional movement here

I thought you already had a Jack 1954 Ford between nine and heavy

I do, I let my brother drive it

You can always tell Easy is lying

his lips move

I want a Jag XKE with pussy radar

so LT, where would you camp for the night?

I want any shit from you hammer I'll squeeze your head all right

hey you feel froggy?

Do wanna throw some hands?

they can beat you on the head and shoulder

tear off your head shit down the whole pal

hey LT what kind of car you got?

-Volkswagen beetle 1965 -Automatic?

nice tick. but I want to get a Camaro or a Firebird

okay look

this has a good back door, cover, water

Okay let's see if LT got his shit together

- Mopic, you leaving this for Charlie? - Sorry man, fuck!

Volks Beetle

- LT you got hair in your ass man - One hardcore dude

Folks gave it to me for graduation

Damn

looks like the LT does have shit together

there they are, quiet

You read that 69?

We'll do it here while the morning sun behind us

first intel they look new

NVA regulars 20 or so, new uniforms

Weapons,SKS is mostly, a few AK, one RPG that I saw

Mortar, old 60 knee mortar, 3 VC probably scouts

We brief everyone, in case we get separated or something

The intelligence has a better chance of getting back

How do we know they're still gonna be there tomorrow?

They were digging a slit trench

nobody goes to the trouble of digging a crapper

unless they're sticking for a while

no shit!

that was a pun

The range for the long rifles looks to be about 450 meters

Why fire on them if we're gonna call them an artillery?

distract them from the artillery

if the fire direction center fucks up

at least we get a few of the rice propelled bastards

mainly we hit those who might hurt our getaway

by the numbers

Easy cause fire mission, hold fire...

Two, Cracker and I shoot primary targets, targets for opportunity

three, Easy let's go, adjust...

...we sky out

- Like a strap it as zebra - Head back to camp

bust a lot of brush so they can track

have some presents waiting for

make a 90°, hit ladybird

compass reading for lady bird is 132 degrees

- You got that Hammer? - 132, got it man.

- All right questions. - Yeah, what do I do?

stay out of our way

Ok Mopic, don't piss on me...

...piss on the camera

Come on man!

They give the folks a home a thrill haul it out,

let me see a real soldiers weapon

This is my weapon

this is my gun

with this I kill people... ...with this I have fun

You wind up in this circle jerk

I was working in a lab back in the rear, post production

sometimes we get these cans of film, no camera man

just the reels of film

and...

we'd hear he got shot or was dead or something

but the spookiest thing

it's waiting for that film to develop man

because you didn't know what you're gonna see

sometimes you saw nothing

other times...

- It's really spooky

- What happened?

-You ran out of film - Story of his life

Returning the barrel LT

oh I see, I've thrown some punches at you guys and now it's your turn

How long you been in line?

oh I'm sorry wait wait wait

LT how long you been in country ?

oh sorry sorry

LT how long you been in the army?

Active?

close to two years I was national guard and college

I want to go to west point couldn't get in, ...politics...

Oh regular army

LT I didn't take you for a lifer

you tell me LT...

how come you're being such a hard ass on us?

I mean, we're just some regular assholes out here

trying to do a dirty job

that's enough, Easy

no

it's a fair question

I think you guys treat this war like it's some kind of game

dress up like G.I. Joe,

sergeant rock, play hardcore

oh fucking shit

Sergeant rock my ass

and how do you see the war LT?

business

big business army is one big corporation

like gulf and western and golf and devour

and we're just cogs in a big machine

if you want

but like Cracker was saying

there's room for opportunity

you can be a peon

or if you see yourself as executive material

advancement potential is enormous

What are you some kind of junior executive?

exactly!

12 months I can move from 2° Louis to 1°

if I play it right I can leave Nam as a captain

with major just around the corner

if you play it right

that's why I volunteered for this unit

you volunteered?

volunteered in finegel.

look with a line unit

I'm just another shave tail lieutenant

my only chance is if you got hit hard

and I pulled it through somehow

but even then there's always something above you

making decisions

taking all the credit from you

for this unit I get to show my stuff

and spend a lot of time in the rear mingling with my superiors

- Like they say it's who you know - Or who you blow

I can take you guys with me

you watch promotions medals

I'll get them for you

slipping a recommendation, hooch maids, more R&R

you're using the NAM to punch a ticket

look...

...wars don't come along very often

it's the chance of a lifetime for a career officer

combat duties is the foundation of a successful career

Well that's what's wrong with this war all that ticket punching

that is

Every night

in your position

you check out your fire lanes

and most of all

you memorize the terrain out in front of you

sometimes we draw a little picture

of the dirt in front of you

so we can go that way

that the shadows

you know they're not the bad guys you know

but then sometimes

you think

that little dink fucker

replaced the bush with himself

you know it moved, you know it did

I hate it just before a mission

you see that little mud over there

that looks like a crawling gook, don't it?

if I stare at that long enough

it'll move

I wouldn't shoot

Frankie

the lambs of motherfucker if you got any imagination

Freeze

What does the jolly green giant fear the most?

I don't know, what?

avocado pickers

Easy give me some bubble gum wrappers

what we're doing...

...making it look like about 15 men with you

makes the gooks chase us with a larger unit

larger the unit the slower and noisier it is

we need every edge we can get

Regular grenades got a 3 second fuse

gives you more time to throw it

smoke grenades instantaneous is better for booby trap

so what I did is I switched them

So you've been wearing this too long I need it

hey I sorry for that soldier

well you can have it, you get it the same way...

...Mr. Charlie will and I guarantee it'll ruin your whole day

All right here help me

25 in a wake up, man

I'm too short to fuck with

you know what

when I get home I'm gonna get me a parking lot

dig it, no building, no maintenance

you paint a couple of lines once a year

I'm gonna get me a parking lot

no shit and lay back

let's do it

let's go

all right this is what you call a little surprise

for Charlie

see we won't be using this trail on the way back

not if we got any smarts

I'm camouflaging the trip wire

now I'm gonna remove the pin

and I mean you gotta be real careful

okay I'll tell you what

you stay here long enough you can have Chuck Chuck

They must have gotten reinforcements overnight

there's a lot of men down OD

your shit getting flaky Mopic

I bet you wish I had that grass right about now

Thunderbird control this is outrider 2

how do you read me? over.

Read you loud and clear, over

I read you Lima Charlie I have a fire mission

request artillery standby for coordinates

enemy size regiment in the open light brush

in my funny book I read Delta, Oscar, Lima,

Echo, November, Golf, Foxtrot, India

-Say back -Roger

ag mission shackle

Delta, Oscar, Lima, Echo, November, Golf, Foxtrot, India

-Wait what -Affirm

fire one h on my command over

- VC point is missing - Roger standing by

yeah, they must be out there humping

yeah looking for us

I said we just call in artie Didi Mau

Fire 1

shot out

Drop 100, left 50, they're running

drop 100, left 50.

fire for effect HD and wicked

Hope you ladybirds getting hit again

Texas hats on the horn going apeshit

We make it the ville

got it OD, the village

Jets are putting the dam dam on the dinks

I need to call in my situation report

Stone n° 3, outrider 2-5

how do you hear me?

same here Outrider, SITREP

mission completed

enemy sided now under fire artillery and airstrike

Roger, enemy under siege Stone n° 3 out

or 2-5 out

I just hate it when we don't shoot

not me, I like a personal risk avoidance policy

yeah it's like a fucking dry hump man

gives me blue balls

it's not bad

it's just that every one of those fucking gooks

cut slack on night just dust some G.I.

- You alright Mopic? - I'm alright I'm okay okay

Stone n°3 this is Outrider 2

pick up, has been changed to Song Bo

same time over.

chew on your lip rations

you eat them dry you suck up some water

not too much to swell your belly

Outrider 2 out.

we won´t able to stop long enough to chow down

until we reach the ville.

Gooks

Ahead about 50 meters across our trail

- 6 of them - Ambush?

no!

breakfast

- We go around them or Through them? - Through!

time to waste some of the slant eye fuckers

wait, can we go around them?

it'll be slow and it won't be easy

let's hit him

come on man, it's our last gig

let's take back some heads

what the fuck we can't dance

- Well, you want to live forever LT? - You know me brief

anything for a joke

no, I can handle it

okay

by the stream

gonna set up on the line

me, Easy, LT, Pretty Boy, Cracker cover our rear

yeah, Hammer, what about Mopic?

waits back by the paths

all right I start, with a grenade

and we hit him... ...Hammer

one of them carries an RPG

you waste that motherfucker

All right, careful crossfire

yeah let's do it to it

Too far

okay

oh my god 12 o'clock

yo man look for souvenirs

hey yo man this one's still alive

motherfucker

- Soldier! - He's a prisoner

we'll take him back with us oh shit no fucking way

don't murder!!

-We kill we just did a mess -Not the same and you know it

take them back to S-2 for interrogation

intelligence is what we're here for

Who's gonna carry the fucker?

he's gonna slow down us like fuck man

if he resists a bitch and a half

you cold cock sucker, he's fucking dead weight

he can't walk we've done this before

I'll carry him, I'll help, come on OD

he goes with us

hey LT congratulations

you're gonna get yourself a medal

most gooks spend a whole year getting shot and shit...

...I'll never even get to see each other

you got you one to take home

you better get your shit together

let's go let's go

We got some kind of a death wish come on

Don't you know Charlie heard us? Easy??

Sniper!!

my radio is hit

we ain´t have a target

Baldwin??

sniper!

I gotta help him I got

- Sorry man - I go!!

I'm alright

come on Pretty Boy come on, come on

damn it, don´t leave him alone

fuck, let's get some fire support

I can´t get the radio work OD

Pretty Boy don't

He´s got a grenade, he's gonna fucking kill himself

- Hold on Baldwin, hold on - Pretty Boy, wait wait

hold it man

grab it Pretty Boy, take it

god damn it

OD please please

please, hug me

Where is he?

just to the right!

you got it buddy you got it

Okay

We got a choice...

We take the gook or Pretty Boy, can't do both

but he's dead

Americans never leave their dead behind

- You're not gonna kill him? - No

- You are LT

We leave him

if his people get to him before he dies he can tell them all about us

we're low on ammo

one of us is hurt, everything

our radio's wasted

No

no gun LT

Noise discipline

The knife makes it personal

It's time you were blooded lt

your own private K.I.A.

- It's gonna die anyway - Maybe

come on LT!

No wait wait wait wait a minute wait a second

You might want to know who you're killing

His name's Trvong

about nineteen

got a family

looks like

a wife

cute wife

- Come on LT, - Come on LT, kill the fucker

Damn

can't even kill a man right

OD

we better move out

I'll destroy the long rifles

Pretty Boy, gear

Hammer give me a

give me a white phosphorus

od

better melt down your radio too

Gregor

- How much further is the ville? - 3 or 4 clicks

79 degrees

remember that I'm a 79r

yeah I got it OD, no sweat man

besides I just follow you

damn I sure could use a cold brew

- I could use some dope - No, no, hash

quick toke a hash dreamland

grass makes me paranoid

one thing he died did he?

I'm short too

twenty five in a wake up

I'm so short I could parachute off a dime

and I wish I had a cold brew

what you wish in one hand and shit in the other

to see which one gets full first

OD what kind of job you're gonna get us in the rear?

I don't know some ghost job

one thing I know it'll be air condition

with my own little refrigerator

full of cold brew

there's slot open for you in the wreck room

We send Easy, Thailand on some R&R so he'll get no trouble

so I take that big bird back to the real world

you do that for me OD?

oh man I would really dig that

I love that Thai pussy

it's cheap too

Me and Pretty Boy could...

- What about a hammer? - Hammer's too tough for the rear

- Got muscles in my shit - Bites heads off animal Cracker

last time I was in the rear

I called home on army line

I got my wife on the horn

she couldn't believe it was me calling from the Nam.

after we talked about that we didn't have shit to say to each other

it's just dead silence not word one

Move, let's go

It's wait a minute

wait a minute

yeah slide that up

You got it?

Hide and seek

Xin loy motherfucker

OD your head man Jesus you're bleeding

fuck you doing? They teach you fucking shit...

...you attack fucker

I was guarding the rear that's what I was taught

in an ambush

OD Crackers is hit!

it hurts

god almighty

Pretty boy morfine!

Cracker,if you die on me hillbilly man

are you my friend?

three slugs ain't nothing

I've seen guys a lot worse

I've seen them live

I counted them when they hit me

it's just one, two, three...

three, shit I been hit three fucking times

oh Jesus, just a second, chest wound

I got a morfine

OD we got to move it

you'll be okay

we've been through some shit together

I´ve seen guys lot a worse

Save it

save it OD

it don't hurt no more

I can't feel a fucking thing

We'll send the chopper back for them

OD we had to stop those bleeding

Easy got some duct tape

oh thanks

It's gonna be a beauty of a scar

You know I've been thinking

and I think I got Pretty Boy luck

You figure that happens

yeah like just visit someone

jumps and visit somebody else

In case I don't make it

my luck jumps

I just want to tell my folks

especially my old man

I want to tell my dad

I did a good job

maybe I wasn't a hero or anything but I did the best job I could do

I'm not worried or anything you know because...

because I got Pretty Boy luck, you know

I thought to come on me, when Pretty Boy died

LT I'm scared man

we're in really deep shit

little Stevie wonder can see this

oh shit so flaky man

you gotta cut me some slack man

I can't cut it no more I can't hack it

I don't want to die

I didn't give a rat fuck before but I do now

OD man you gotta cover my ass

you out of pills?

I can't get wrong, OD

don't you look at me like that you motherfucker

I'll kill you

oh Easy man it's okay

it's alright man

Easy, Easy, Easy

I'll take care of you alright

oh well, I have lie to you?

I'm sorry

I´m just a little fucked because of Cracker and Pretty boy

what's the difference between fish and meat?

if you beat your fish it'll die

dinky dau motherfucker

easy my flak jacket here

- Do you know how to use this? - Yeah I know how to use it

I think I should take over now

you're incapacitated

I don't want to argue

you can barely walk with that wound

see you can hardly stand up

- I'll take point - Get us all greased

Hammer, Hammer take point

we move now we move fast

We got a pick up to make

one hardcore dude

and you're one silly gun hole fucker hammer

yeah no shit

but like Cracker always says man

said, if you're gonna be a bear, be a fucking grizzly

I take the rear

okay keep your elbows don't butch up

watch for booby traps

stay off the trail and stop every few steps

just a few meters just listen

OD man cut me some slack I can handle it

I ain't no fucking Cherry man

Oh damn

I'm sorry man I'm sorry

he's dead come on come on

let's get out of here

Better check it out

Chopper will get us soon

Be careful lieutenant, booby traps

I wonder who did this us or them

does it make a difference?

put that thing down and give us a hand

I'm not saying all gooks look the same

it's just

go to sin city

all the gook faces look like somebody I shot

you know

spooky like ghosts

that's not counting the other dead men

soldados...

friends...

strangers to

hey LT how about that morphine?

no, you got to keep him conscious for the chopper

how about for me?

Don't worry about me LT

I'll be okay, just keeping the eye on the chopper

OD?

am I gonna die?

who want to kill a doofus diddy bopper like you?

two minutes to pick up NVA gonna try something

alright about to prepare

some fire lanes

LT you got a red smoke?

- No yellow - Yellows for clear land

you got a pop of red smoke for hot LZ

you gotta let the choppers know Chuck's waiting to

he knows that shit OD

he ain't Cherry no more

red smoke for hot LZ...

...I got it OD

hey don't sweat it LT

hell what do you want to do live forever?

- You got in the rear? - Yeah yeah I'm on it

- How you doing OD? - Can't feel my legs

don't hurt too much if I don't move too quick

chopper should be here soon

yeah one good thing about the Nam

if you hear a chopper you know it's ours

Ten o'clock jump

Smoke LT!

Stop testing out

Come on move it move it Easy get the fuck out of here

come on man come on come on come on

take this I'm going back over me

Mopic!

Mopic!!

Okay dragon Lizard on the sky

one man still on the zone