Original subtitles

You aren't going to believe how lucky we are.

What a detail.

Listen, we've got a half-hour briefing at brigade,

then we've got the rest of the afternoon off.

You know what that means?

That means an afternoon at Mama-san Linda's.

Who's Mama-san Linda?

For starter's, she's not your mama.

But she's definitely what your mama ordered.

Look at that--

a bony growth.

Horns?

We'd better get them trimmed.

I get it, I get it.

To the rear echelon, my man. You got it.

[PLAYING HARMONICA]

Bluebird 12, roger.

223 by 444566, south bank.

Copy that.

What's going on?

Got a medevac-- ARVN unit on the Phu Chu.

U.S. Advisor got hit.

Great.

Damn.

[MACHINE GUN FIRE]

We're taking fire!

Aah!

He's dead!

We're hit!

Hang on!

We're losing it! We're losing it!

Oh, God!

Look out!

Look out for the trees!

We're going down!

Hang on! Hang on!

[♪♪♪]

Let's get out of here!

Oh, man.

There's nothing we can do now.

He's not going to make it.

Look at that chest wound.

Baker, your back.

I'll live.

He's not so lucky, though.

[MACHINE GUN FIRE]

Sounds like a couple over by those trees there.

Watch your ammo.

I'm gonna try to flank them.

Johnson, you see the smoke straight ahead?

Gotcha. Right there.

How did you do?

I got one of 'em,

but we've got to didi out of here.

One got away, and he'll be back with all of his cousins.

How are you doing on ammo?

I've got about 8 to 10 clips.

I've got three clips.

Oh, boy.

We ought to bury him or something.

No time.

Hey, you know what they do with the dead bodies.

Baker, the man is already hurt all he's going to hurt.

He ain't going to get any deader.

Now let's get out of here.

They went down somewhere in here.

That's a huge area.

Yeah, they were out about 15 to 30 minutes,

they were headed southeast,

they got this call to change course due west.

Some time after that, could have been 20 minutes,

they lost radio contact.

So you're telling me

they could be damn near anywhere.

You've got it.

Look, can't you get a hold of the air force,

get them to loan us a few ships?

These are my people out here. They're good men.

My pilot's good. We're doing all we can.

Okay, get going.

Wait for Baker, okay?

You okay, Baker?

Sure.

It burns. It burns.

They hurt like hell.

All right, we'll slow up here for a little bit.

They won't be expecting us to go north.

We'll keep going in this direction

for a little bit, then we'll cut east.

How far do you think we are from base? Forty, 50 miles.

No problem, we can hump that in a day and a half.

Not cutting brush, we can't.

Stay off the trails? You betcha.

We're only about five miles from the Cambodian border.

We don't want to take any chances.

[HELICOPTER]

Hey, listen.

Hey! Wait!

Quiet, Baker.

You know, all we have to do is light a signal fire.

Just get a big, clear area and light a fire.

They'd be sure to see it. Yeah, they sure would.

That would be the worst thing we could do.

Then the whole countryside would know exactly where we are.

Let's get moving.

[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]

What you got there? Playboy? No.

What the hell is this? It's all surfboards.

Yeah, it's a surfer magazine.

There's a big story on Corky Carroll in there.

"Corky goes to the North Shore,"

"Corky toes to the nose at Trestles and Rincon."

What? Is Corky a girl?

Man, he is only the best small wave rider in California.

And you really read this crap?

Mostly, I just look at the pictures.

Give me a Playboy.

Now, there's pictures for you, right, Zeke?

Personally, I prefer Popular Mechanics.

But they're all white chicks in Playboy.

Yeah, but they're chicks.

Yeah, I see your point.

See, I'm writing a letter to the editor

so we can try and put more sisters in there.

I've never seen a naked black chick before.

Well, they got extra-thick skulls

and they can't swim.

Really? Your mama, Baker.

[SQUEAKS]

Get down.

Get out of there.

Get out of there! Get out of there!

Get out of there! Get out of there!

Oh, God.

Don't look at it, man.

Don't pay it no mind.

Oh, my God.

I don't believe this.

They're all dead.

They're Montagnards.

Who?

Montagnards. They're mountain people,

like, uh, Indians or gypsies.

Who could've done this?

They're just civilians, right?

I don't know.

There's no love lost between the VC and the Montagnards,

but it's my guess these people just got caught in the middle.

Looks like they got mortared or artillery.

Poke around in this stuff.

See if there's anything we can use.

[MOANING]

Over here, quick. This one's alive.

It's all right.

It's going to be all right, okay?

I'm going to help you. We're here to help you.

You speak any English, lady?

What's she saying?

Something's wrong,

but she doesn't seem to be hurt too bad.

That's it. What's it?

She's going to have a baby.

Oh, man.

All right, now, we've got to do something.

Either of you guys know anything--

Having a baby? Uh-uh.

My mother had one.

I hope so, Baker.

She had one of my brothers when I was 5.

Well, did you learn anything

you'd like to share with us here?

Hey, in the movies, they always get hot water, though, right?

What do they do with the hot water?

Give her a bath?

No, no, no, no.

I mean, for the baby.

It does come out all gooey and stuff, you know.

I can't stand listening to this.

I think we should be telling her

to breathe deeply.

She doesn't know how to breathe already?

Well, we've got to do something.

That's for sure.

But what?

[BABY CRIES]

Cowabunga.

Shouldn't we give him a spanking or something?

No, that's to get it breathing,

but it's crying, so it's already breathing.

So, uh, Johnson, pick it up.

No, you do it.

[BABY CRIES]

Excuse me.

Okay. Here you go.

All right. Here you go.

Yeah. Here you go.

All right.

There you go.

She don't look so good.

Yeah.

Listen. I say we didi out of here.

We've done everything we could.

We didn't do nothing.

That's everything we could.

Man, she's looking scraggly.

Uh, listen, lady.

I'd like to help you, honest to God,

but I don't know exactly what to do.

If we had a radio, we could medevac you.

We've got hospitals

with all kinds of equipment and stuff.

Hey, those doctors--

man, those doctors would jump at the chance

to deal with something normal like having a baby,

but, uh...

Well, look...

you want some water?

It's not very cold,

but open your mouth, otherwise it will...

Lady?

Oh, no.

Is she dead?

Yeah.

All right, we're in enemy territory,

we're out of ammo, we're being followed.

What are you driving at?

Hard decisions, Johnson. Like what?

This baby is going to slow us down.

You don't want to leave it here, do you?

Baker, we don't have any choice.

Charlie's about an hour behind us.

If we leave the baby here,

then they have to take care of it.

You really expect them to take care of it?

Yes, I do, as a matter of fact,

and the baby's better off with his own people anyway.

It's a Montagnard baby, though. So what?

So VC hate Montagnards.

Baker, it's a baby. A baby's a baby.

These people love babies.

Yeah, that's right,

bad guys love babies more than we do?

Baker, I don't like this any more than you do,

but we don't got a chance

if we have to slow down if we babysit some orphan

that doesn't have a hope in hell anyway.

My job's keeping you guys alive.

I've got to do that job, whether you like it or not.

Okay, maybe he's right.

The baby should be okay for a couple of hours.

Come on, let's get out of here.

[BABY CRYING]

Let me keep it, please.

Come on, I'll keep care of it, all right?

Now, tell me something, Baker,

how do you intend to fire your weapon

if you're carrying a baby in your arms?

Look, I really don't care what you say.

I'm keeping it.

Johnson, you with me on this?

Looks like you're outnumbered, Zeke.

Now, get this straight, soldiers.

This isn't a democracy here.

I'm the sergeant.

You're the private.

Why don't you go ahead and court-martial us.

I don't care.

Yeah, what are you going to do?

Send us to Vietnam?

[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]

Look, sarge, once we make contact,

we can medevac him to Da Nang.

I mean, they've got people there that can take care of him.

Yeah. They've got orphanages and stuff.

Orphans don't got a hope in hell

in this world.

I don't know about that. Shut up.

I mean, this kid could grow up

to be Albert Einstein or something.