WEBVTT 00:00:00.326 --> 00:00:20.326 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:00:36.350 --> 00:00:40.320 These are the true events of November, 1965 00:00:40.400 --> 00:00:42.940 The la Drang Valley of Vietnam 00:00:43.030 --> 00:00:45.610 a place our country does not remember... 00:00:45.650 --> 00:00:48.120 in a war it does not understand. 00:00:49.490 --> 00:00:51.660 This story's a testament to the young Americans... 00:00:51.740 --> 00:00:53.660 who died in the Valley of Death... 00:00:53.750 --> 00:00:56.170 and a tribute to the young men of the Peoples Army of Vietnam... 00:00:56.250 --> 00:00:59.170 who died by our hand in that place. 00:01:01.500 --> 00:01:04.420 To tell this story, I must start at the beginning. 00:01:06.220 --> 00:01:08.140 But where does it begin? 00:01:10.550 --> 00:01:14.100 Maybe in June of 1954, when French Group Mobile 100... 00:01:14.180 --> 00:01:17.020 moved into the same Central Highlands of Vietnam... 00:01:17.100 --> 00:01:19.520 where we would go 11 years later. 00:04:17.450 --> 00:04:20.200 Maybe the story begins in America... 00:04:20.290 --> 00:04:24.160 when the army first realized a new kind of war was coming its way. 00:04:24.210 --> 00:04:26.790 The White House anticipates a buildup and wants a victory... 00:04:26.830 --> 00:04:28.790 over cavemen in black pajamas. 00:04:28.840 --> 00:04:31.420 We wouldn't be there if they hadn't already beaten the French Army. 00:04:31.510 --> 00:04:34.430 The French Army? What's that? 00:04:34.510 --> 00:04:37.720 The problem in Vietnam is terrain jungles, mountains, rivers. 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:39.220 Maneuver's a nightmare. 00:04:39.300 --> 00:04:42.640 We have a plan to use helicopters leap in and out of battle. 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:44.690 They want you to run the test on the idea. 00:04:44.770 --> 00:04:47.520 It'll take a hell of a combat leader. 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:50.070 I know a young light colonel named Hal Moore. 00:04:50.150 --> 00:04:52.070 He led a combat company in Korea. 00:04:52.150 --> 00:04:54.820 After that, he volunteered to test experimental parachutes. 00:04:54.900 --> 00:04:58.530 Experimental parachutes? Sounds like just the guy. 00:04:58.570 --> 00:05:03.040 The other side of the mountain was all that he could see 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.080 Was all that he could see Was all that he could see 00:05:07.170 --> 00:05:12.250 The other side of the mountain was all that he could see 00:05:12.340 --> 00:05:16.050 The bear went over the mountain The bear went over the mountain 00:05:16.090 --> 00:05:17.550 The bear went over the mountain 00:05:17.590 --> 00:05:21.220 How about we go back to "Bingo"? What do you say? "Bingo". 00:05:22.430 --> 00:05:24.480 B-I-N-G-O 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.190 B-I-N-G-O 00:05:26.270 --> 00:05:28.270 B-I-N-G-O 00:05:28.350 --> 00:05:30.730 And Bingo was his name-o 00:05:48.620 --> 00:05:51.710 Tom, how much you know about our new colonel? 00:05:51.790 --> 00:05:53.380 He was in Korea... 00:05:53.460 --> 00:05:55.800 has a master's in international relations from Harvard. 00:05:55.880 --> 00:05:59.340 Harvard? He's not one of those academic pussies, is he? 00:05:59.430 --> 00:06:00.840 Hal Moore? 00:06:00.930 --> 00:06:03.060 Want me to get one of those? 00:06:53.770 --> 00:06:57.150 Come on, Too Tall. Gimme your best shot! 00:06:58.820 --> 00:07:01.700 Did you see that, sports fans? Did you see that? 00:07:01.780 --> 00:07:04.280 Snakeshit drives that one to the moon, baby! 00:07:04.370 --> 00:07:06.870 Hit the cutoff man! Hit the cutoff man! 00:07:06.950 --> 00:07:09.120 And he's coming around! 00:07:09.200 --> 00:07:12.330 - Here he comes! - No, he's not. 00:07:16.630 --> 00:07:18.800 You're out! You're out! 00:07:18.880 --> 00:07:22.130 Horseshit! No wonder you can't fly. You can't see. 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:26.510 I believe you're out. 00:07:33.810 --> 00:07:36.480 - You're a pilot? - Too Tall, sir. 00:07:36.520 --> 00:07:39.440 - Yeah, I can see that. - You call, we haul. 00:07:42.200 --> 00:07:44.160 - Can I speak to you, Crandall? - Yes, sir. 00:07:45.200 --> 00:07:46.330 - Out. - Safe. 00:07:46.410 --> 00:07:48.450 - Out. - Safe. 00:07:50.330 --> 00:07:52.290 - Can I buy you a drink? - Sure. 00:07:52.330 --> 00:07:53.790 Thanks. 00:07:53.870 --> 00:07:57.090 So, your men call you "Snakeshit". 00:07:57.170 --> 00:08:00.840 That's an affectionate appellation of my comrades-in-arms, sir... 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:02.970 'cause I fly lower than snake shit. 00:08:03.010 --> 00:08:07.010 Well, I got a problem, Snakeshit, and I think you're the solution. 00:08:07.100 --> 00:08:09.640 I've been called a lot of things, Colonel, never a solution. 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:12.270 You know what air cavalry really means? 00:08:12.350 --> 00:08:16.650 You fly into hostile territory, outnumbered 10,000 miles from home. 00:08:16.690 --> 00:08:18.900 Sometimes the battleground's no bigger than a football field. 00:08:18.980 --> 00:08:23.320 And if the choppers stop comin', we all get slaughtered. 00:08:23.400 --> 00:08:26.320 Now, I figure chopper pilots won't fly into hell for strangers... 00:08:26.370 --> 00:08:28.910 so... I'm Hal Moore. 00:08:28.990 --> 00:08:31.080 I know, sir. Why us? 00:08:32.330 --> 00:08:36.380 Well, you guys look like shit, but your equipment is immaculate. 00:08:37.330 --> 00:08:40.420 Yesterday was Sunday. You didn't have to be training, but you were. 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:42.340 You got pilots like that Too Tall character. 00:08:42.420 --> 00:08:45.430 He's way outside the limits of army regs. 00:08:45.510 --> 00:08:47.930 They wanna fly with you for some reason. 00:08:48.010 --> 00:08:49.930 I guess it's 'cause they think you're the best. 00:08:50.010 --> 00:08:52.560 It's 'cause I only recruit the dumb ones, sir. 00:08:56.730 --> 00:08:58.690 I don't suppose I have a choice in all this. 00:08:58.730 --> 00:09:01.440 You sure don't. 00:09:02.530 --> 00:09:04.190 Wouldn't miss it for the world. 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.740 To the Air Cav. 00:09:14.710 --> 00:09:16.120 Good mornin', Sergeant Major. 00:09:16.210 --> 00:09:19.170 How do you know what kind of goddamn day it is? 00:09:26.930 --> 00:09:30.350 Group! Atten-hut! 00:09:54.700 --> 00:09:56.790 At ease, gentlemen. 00:09:58.540 --> 00:10:00.630 Welcome to the new cavalry. 00:10:02.130 --> 00:10:04.090 We will ride into battle. 00:10:05.380 --> 00:10:08.380 And this... will be our horse. 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:36.700 You don't have to catch it. You don't have to feed it. 00:10:38.330 --> 00:10:39.830 But I can assure you... 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:45.210 that neither the new technology nor your status as officers... 00:10:45.300 --> 00:10:47.630 will keep you above the danger. 00:10:49.800 --> 00:10:52.850 Sergeant-Major Plumley and I come from the paratroopers... 00:10:52.930 --> 00:10:56.520 where the officer is always the first one out of the plane. 00:10:57.600 --> 00:10:59.520 Because to follow your instincts... 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:02.600 and to inspire your men by your example... 00:11:04.190 --> 00:11:08.530 you have to be with them where the metal meets the meat. 00:11:09.400 --> 00:11:12.160 Sergeant-Major Plumley made all four combat jumps... 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:14.780 in the 82nd Airborne during World War II. 00:11:14.870 --> 00:11:16.950 Sicily, Salerno, Normandy... 00:11:17.040 --> 00:11:20.080 and Holland, plus one more in Korea. 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.090 He answers to me and to me alone. 00:11:25.170 --> 00:11:28.090 Now, I hope you gentlemen like training... 00:11:28.170 --> 00:11:30.510 'cause me and the sergeant-major 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:33.680 we love it. 00:11:35.640 --> 00:11:39.310 Three strikes and you're not out! 00:11:39.390 --> 00:11:42.310 There is always one more thing you can do. 00:11:53.490 --> 00:11:54.910 Here we go, boys. 00:11:54.990 --> 00:11:57.240 Move! Move! Go! Now! 00:11:57.330 --> 00:11:59.450 - Two. - Let's go! 00:11:59.540 --> 00:12:01.460 Three. 00:12:01.540 --> 00:12:02.920 We're outta here! 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:06.040 - Pretty good, huh? - Pretty good. 00:12:08.170 --> 00:12:10.260 There's only one thing wrong. 00:12:11.340 --> 00:12:14.640 Be sharp! We will be the best platoon in this battalion! 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:17.140 Be ready in there! Let's go! Let's go! 00:12:17.220 --> 00:12:19.850 All right! Your officer's dead! 00:12:19.930 --> 00:12:21.890 - What do you do? What do you do? - First 00:12:21.930 --> 00:12:24.900 All right, he hesitated. He's dead. What do you do? 00:12:24.940 --> 00:12:27.110 - Get off the chopper! - Get off the chopper. 00:12:36.070 --> 00:12:37.620 Hold off the third one. 00:12:38.700 --> 00:12:40.240 Come on in. 00:12:40.290 --> 00:12:43.830 Savage, you learn the job of the man above you... 00:12:43.910 --> 00:12:46.250 and you teach your job to the man below you in rank. 00:12:46.330 --> 00:12:48.250 That goes for every man in this outfit. 00:12:48.290 --> 00:12:49.920 - Understood? - Yes, sir! 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:52.630 We'll be landing under fire, gentlemen. 00:12:55.880 --> 00:12:57.340 Men will die. 00:13:04.640 --> 00:13:06.350 Have you said your prayers? 00:13:08.650 --> 00:13:10.270 Come on. I'll say them with you. 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:13.440 - Fall in. - Gimme that bear. 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:19.070 All right. Ready. Set. 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:22.540 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. 00:13:22.620 --> 00:13:25.790 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. 00:13:25.870 --> 00:13:27.750 Blessed art thou amongst women... 00:13:27.830 --> 00:13:29.460 and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. 00:13:29.540 --> 00:13:32.250 Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners 00:13:32.340 --> 00:13:34.300 Cecile, I don't hear you praying, honey. 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.470 I don't wanna be Catholic. I wanna be a "Nethodist" like Mommy. 00:13:39.550 --> 00:13:41.430 You do? 00:13:41.510 --> 00:13:43.640 And why is that, honey? 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:45.770 So I can pray whatever I want. 00:13:46.730 --> 00:13:47.980 That's a sin. 00:13:48.060 --> 00:13:49.980 No, that's not a sin. 00:13:50.060 --> 00:13:53.230 God just made you hardheaded. It's not a sin. 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:56.860 I'll tell you what. You wanna 00:13:56.900 --> 00:13:59.410 You wanna pray and thank God for our family? 00:14:00.490 --> 00:14:03.790 - Yes, sir. - That's good. Let's do it. 00:14:03.870 --> 00:14:07.410 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. 00:14:07.460 --> 00:14:09.580 Blessed art thou among women... 00:14:09.630 --> 00:14:11.840 and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. 00:14:17.420 --> 00:14:19.890 I can hear you laughing, you know, even in here. 00:14:19.970 --> 00:14:22.760 I'm not laughing, I'm marveling. 00:14:22.850 --> 00:14:25.100 Marveling? At what? 00:14:25.180 --> 00:14:27.520 That you can find stubbornness in your children... 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:30.150 and think it comes from anybody but you. 00:14:30.230 --> 00:14:31.650 - Yeah? - Mm-hmm. 00:14:35.070 --> 00:14:37.490 I'll give you something to marvel at. 00:14:40.910 --> 00:14:42.320 He's a wild man. 00:15:00.550 --> 00:15:03.260 - When I pray - Mm-hmm. 00:15:03.300 --> 00:15:04.760 whatever I want 00:15:06.060 --> 00:15:07.980 I thank God for you. 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.160 Beautiful morning, Sergeant Major. 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:26.700 What are you, a fuckin' weatherman now? 00:15:29.750 --> 00:15:33.080 Look what I found for the new baseball player. 00:15:33.170 --> 00:15:35.540 - Sent us another bunch of officers. - Uh-huh. 00:15:35.630 --> 00:15:38.090 Real green. Gotta train 'em up. 00:15:38.170 --> 00:15:40.470 Makes me think I'm starting a new unit. 00:15:40.550 --> 00:15:42.630 They sent new rifles too. The M-16. 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:44.680 That's supposed to be a pretty good weapon. 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.680 Lots of plastic. 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:51.230 Feels like a BB gun to me. Believe I'll stick with my pistol. 00:15:51.310 --> 00:15:54.310 You think we're gonna get close enough to the enemy to use that? 00:15:54.400 --> 00:15:55.940 What do you think, sir? 00:15:56.820 --> 00:15:59.110 A leader must remain cool and calm. 00:15:59.190 --> 00:16:03.070 And second, he must learn to ignore explosions... 00:16:03.160 --> 00:16:05.950 the heat and dust, the screams of the wounded. 00:16:07.030 --> 00:16:10.620 This is normal on a battlefield. Normal! 00:16:24.390 --> 00:16:27.470 Fortran, you need to get a company over to reinforce the left flank. 00:16:27.550 --> 00:16:31.140 - Where is that coming from? - That's our advisors in Vietnam. 00:16:31.230 --> 00:16:34.140 The new radio's picking up atmospheric bounce. 00:16:52.660 --> 00:16:54.710 When Crazy Horse was a baby... 00:16:58.790 --> 00:17:02.340 he nursed from the breast of every woman in the tribe. 00:17:04.760 --> 00:17:06.890 The Sioux raised their children that way. 00:17:07.970 --> 00:17:09.390 Every warrior... 00:17:10.470 --> 00:17:12.430 called every woman in the tribe "mother". 00:17:13.520 --> 00:17:15.940 Every older warrior, they called him "grandfather". 00:17:15.980 --> 00:17:19.230 Now, the point here is that they fought as a family. 00:17:20.900 --> 00:17:22.820 Take care of your men. 00:17:23.900 --> 00:17:26.860 Teach them to take care of each other. 00:17:26.950 --> 00:17:28.870 'Cause when this starts... 00:17:30.870 --> 00:17:32.830 each other is all we're gonna have. 00:17:38.790 --> 00:17:41.920 - Did you tune that in? - Yes, sir. 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.260 Well, that's fine. You're my radio operator. 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.340 You'll be fine. You'll work it out. 00:17:55.180 --> 00:17:58.150 Any of you sons of bitches calls me Grandpa... 00:18:00.810 --> 00:18:02.650 I'll kill ya. 00:18:25.420 --> 00:18:28.510 Godboldt, take your boots off. 00:18:28.590 --> 00:18:30.340 Go on. 00:18:32.010 --> 00:18:36.100 Everybody, take your boots off. Everybody. 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:38.350 Socks too. 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:53.660 I want you to draw fresh socks from supply. 00:18:53.740 --> 00:18:56.370 Keep your feet dusted with powder. 00:19:00.080 --> 00:19:03.540 Everybody check each other's feet like Godboldt and me. 00:19:05.380 --> 00:19:07.300 Now, that young man's a leader. 00:19:07.380 --> 00:19:08.970 Yes, sir. 00:19:09.050 --> 00:19:12.260 That other fella that big, strong one there 00:19:12.340 --> 00:19:14.260 he wants to win medals. 00:19:17.770 --> 00:19:19.440 Why were you in the back? 00:19:19.520 --> 00:19:21.650 Goddamn it, why were you in the back? 00:19:22.730 --> 00:19:24.650 He's eager. 00:19:27.190 --> 00:19:30.570 Ladies, I'm really, really glad you're here today. 00:19:31.570 --> 00:19:35.870 Some of you are new to the army and all of us are new to this post. 00:19:35.950 --> 00:19:39.410 I thought we'd pool our resources and cover questions we have. 00:19:39.500 --> 00:19:42.710 So, why don't we start with item number one food. 00:19:44.590 --> 00:19:46.210 Where's the best place to shop? 00:19:48.590 --> 00:19:50.510 Well, I tried Big Star, and it's okay. 00:19:50.590 --> 00:19:53.720 But I keep thinking my water's gonna break right in the checkout aisle. 00:19:56.970 --> 00:20:00.770 That takes care of food shopping. So, item number two laundry. 00:20:00.850 --> 00:20:02.310 The base washing machines don't work. 00:20:02.390 --> 00:20:04.650 They're full of sand from the swamp missions. 00:20:04.730 --> 00:20:06.400 I'll take care of that. 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:09.490 - I've already complained. - We'll just go to the general. 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:13.910 In the meantime, the Laundromat in town's okay... 00:20:13.950 --> 00:20:16.450 but they won't let you wash your colored things in their machines. 00:20:16.530 --> 00:20:19.410 - At a public Laundromat? - Didn't make sense to me either. 00:20:19.450 --> 00:20:21.410 I'm telling you, they have a sign right in the window... 00:20:21.460 --> 00:20:22.790 says "Whites Only". 00:20:26.170 --> 00:20:29.710 - What? - They mean white people only. 00:20:31.590 --> 00:20:33.010 That's awful. 00:20:33.930 --> 00:20:37.010 Your husband is wearing the uniform of a country that allows a place... 00:20:38.310 --> 00:20:42.640 to say his laundry's not good enough, when he could die for 00:20:47.820 --> 00:20:49.940 - I'm sorry. I just - That's all right, honey. 00:20:49.980 --> 00:20:53.860 I know what my husband's fighting for, and that's why I can smile. 00:20:53.950 --> 00:20:56.450 My husband will never ask for respect... 00:20:57.280 --> 00:20:59.660 and he'll give respect to no man who hasn't earned it. 00:20:59.700 --> 00:21:01.910 The rest of his family is the same way. 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:05.120 Anybody who doesn't respect that can keep his washing machine... 00:21:05.170 --> 00:21:07.290 'cause my baby's clothes are gonna be clean anyway. 00:21:10.380 --> 00:21:13.170 Well, I guess that takes care of item number two. 00:21:16.300 --> 00:21:18.050 Are you all right? 00:21:18.140 --> 00:21:22.180 I think I think my water just broke. 00:21:22.270 --> 00:21:24.730 We're all calm. We're all calm. 00:21:25.810 --> 00:21:28.150 A car! A car! 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:03.640 - Colonel. - At ease. At ease. 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:05.930 I heard one of my new lieutenants just became a father. 00:22:06.020 --> 00:22:07.940 - I came to say congratulations. - Thank you, sir. 00:22:08.770 --> 00:22:10.730 So, I didn't wanna disturb you. 00:22:10.770 --> 00:22:13.900 No, it's fine. It's all right. Please. 00:22:13.980 --> 00:22:15.940 Well, how's your wife? 00:22:15.990 --> 00:22:18.570 She's okay. She's okay. She's sleeping. 00:22:19.660 --> 00:22:22.080 So is my daughter. I just... 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:24.700 wanted to be here for a while before I held her. 00:22:24.790 --> 00:22:26.960 Well, tag her already? 00:22:27.040 --> 00:22:29.580 - What's that say? - Camille. Sorry about this, sir. 00:22:29.630 --> 00:22:32.290 Don't take that off. Leave that where it is. That's an order. 00:22:34.840 --> 00:22:37.630 - Colonel, may I ask you a question? - Sure. 00:22:39.970 --> 00:22:43.760 What do you think about being a soldier and a father? 00:22:45.140 --> 00:22:47.230 I hope that being good at the one... 00:22:47.270 --> 00:22:49.270 makes me better at the other. 00:22:51.940 --> 00:22:54.270 Why? What about you? 00:22:54.320 --> 00:22:57.110 I don't know, sir. 00:22:57.150 --> 00:22:59.110 Between college and here... 00:23:00.450 --> 00:23:02.570 Barbara and I spent a year in Africa. 00:23:04.370 --> 00:23:07.710 We helped build a school for orphans. 00:23:09.370 --> 00:23:12.040 They were orphans because the warlord across the border... 00:23:12.130 --> 00:23:14.040 didn't like their tribe. 00:23:17.300 --> 00:23:20.930 I know God has a plan for me. 00:23:22.090 --> 00:23:24.720 I just hope it's to help protect orphans... 00:23:26.020 --> 00:23:28.140 not make any. 00:23:30.850 --> 00:23:33.860 Well, why don't we ask him? 00:23:33.940 --> 00:23:36.030 Come on. Let's go ask him. 00:23:41.320 --> 00:23:44.240 Our Father in Heaven, before we go into battle... 00:23:45.280 --> 00:23:48.540 every soldier among us will approach you each in his own way. 00:23:49.750 --> 00:23:51.670 Our enemies too... 00:23:51.750 --> 00:23:53.330 according to their own understanding... 00:23:53.420 --> 00:23:56.170 will ask for protection and for victory. 00:23:56.250 --> 00:23:59.420 And so, we bow before your infinite wisdom. 00:23:59.510 --> 00:24:01.880 We offer our prayers as best we can. 00:24:02.760 --> 00:24:06.310 I pray you watch over the young men, like Jack Geoghegan... 00:24:06.390 --> 00:24:09.730 that I lead into battle. 00:24:09.810 --> 00:24:12.310 You use me as your instrument in this awful hell of war... 00:24:12.390 --> 00:24:14.150 to watch over them. 00:24:15.730 --> 00:24:18.030 Especially if they're men like this one beside me... 00:24:18.110 --> 00:24:20.860 deserving of a future in your blessing and good will. 00:24:23.160 --> 00:24:25.280 - Amen. - Amen. 00:24:27.530 --> 00:24:30.500 Yes, and one more thing, dear Lord... 00:24:30.540 --> 00:24:32.000 about our enemies 00:24:34.250 --> 00:24:35.710 ignore their heathen prayers... 00:24:35.750 --> 00:24:37.840 and help us blow those little bastards straight to hell. 00:24:38.630 --> 00:24:40.090 Amen again. 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:43.340 Amen. 00:24:43.380 --> 00:24:44.840 Thank you. 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:51.430 There's one about the kid with the apple tree, or the flying horse... 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:55.400 or the fairy tales with the deer and stuff in 'em. 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:58.150 Daddy, what is a war? 00:25:03.320 --> 00:25:05.240 A war is a 00:25:05.320 --> 00:25:07.240 Well, it's 00:25:10.490 --> 00:25:14.750 It's something that shouldn't happen, but it does. 00:25:17.170 --> 00:25:19.040 It's when... 00:25:19.130 --> 00:25:23.340 some people in another country or any country 00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:27.930 try to take the lives of other people. 00:25:28.010 --> 00:25:30.680 And then soldiers like your daddy have to 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.310 It's my job to go over there and stop them. 00:25:34.690 --> 00:25:38.810 Are they gonna try to take your life away, Daddy? 00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:45.820 Well, yes, they're gonna try. 00:25:45.900 --> 00:25:47.820 But I'm not gonna let 'em. 00:25:49.370 --> 00:25:50.330 Okay? 00:26:55.100 --> 00:26:56.520 Can't sleep? 00:27:02.110 --> 00:27:04.530 The men are so young and 00:27:04.610 --> 00:27:07.240 Now they sent me a new crop even greener. 00:27:08.450 --> 00:27:11.280 When I look at them, I... 00:27:11.370 --> 00:27:12.870 see our boys. 00:27:13.950 --> 00:27:16.870 Well, then you're just the man to lead them. 00:27:20.460 --> 00:27:22.380 I guess. 00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:37.770 We intend to convince the Communists... 00:27:38.980 --> 00:27:43.900 that we cannot be defeated by force of arms. 00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:49.610 I have asked the commanding general, General Westmoreland... 00:27:49.650 --> 00:27:54.530 what more he needs to meet this mounting aggression. 00:27:55.620 --> 00:27:57.660 He has told me... 00:27:59.080 --> 00:28:01.830 and we will meet his needs. 00:28:03.750 --> 00:28:07.130 I have today ordered to Vietnam the airmobile division... 00:28:07.210 --> 00:28:10.380 and certain other forces which will raise our fighting strength... 00:28:10.470 --> 00:28:13.180 from 75,000 to... 00:28:13.260 --> 00:28:16.970 125,000 men almost immediately. 00:28:18.100 --> 00:28:20.520 Additional forces will be needed later. 00:28:22.270 --> 00:28:24.310 Get out your best dresses, ladies. 00:28:26.360 --> 00:28:28.320 They're gonna want to celebrate. 00:28:39.540 --> 00:28:44.460 Don't you ever be sad 00:28:44.540 --> 00:28:48.630 Lean on me when the times are bad 00:28:51.550 --> 00:28:53.840 I didn't hear the president mention a state of emergency. 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:55.390 No, he didn't. 00:28:55.430 --> 00:28:59.470 Well, without that declaration our enlistments won't be extended. 00:28:59.560 --> 00:29:02.180 I'm sorry, Hal. 00:29:02.270 --> 00:29:05.270 Forgive me, sir, but let me get this straight. 00:29:05.350 --> 00:29:08.860 We form a division using techniques never attempted in battle... 00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:13.200 against an enemy with 20 years of combat experience on his ground... 00:29:13.280 --> 00:29:15.950 12,000 miles away from our ground. 00:29:16.030 --> 00:29:18.830 And right before the army sends us into the fight... 00:29:18.910 --> 00:29:22.200 they take away a third of my most experienced men, including officers. 00:29:22.290 --> 00:29:25.370 I don't like it any better than you do, Hal. 00:29:27.710 --> 00:29:30.090 You saw this coming, didn't you? 00:29:30.170 --> 00:29:34.130 Yes. That's why you gave me that new crop of platoon leaders. 00:29:36.180 --> 00:29:38.140 Korea didn't teach 'em anything. 00:29:38.220 --> 00:29:40.680 - Politicians? - Politicians. 00:29:46.270 --> 00:29:49.610 Hold me, hold me 00:29:49.690 --> 00:29:51.820 Never let me go 00:29:51.900 --> 00:29:56.450 Until you've told me told me 00:29:56.530 --> 00:30:01.410 What I want to know and then just hold me 00:30:01.450 --> 00:30:04.160 Hold me Make me tell you 00:30:04.250 --> 00:30:08.380 I'm in love with you 00:30:13.170 --> 00:30:16.180 Thrill me, thrill me 00:30:17.550 --> 00:30:19.140 Thank you, sir. 00:30:19.220 --> 00:30:21.350 By the way, Hal, since we're being deployed... 00:30:21.430 --> 00:30:22.930 they're renumbering the units. 00:30:22.970 --> 00:30:24.430 You're now the commanding officer... 00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:27.440 of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry. 00:30:30.190 --> 00:30:31.650 The 7th. 00:30:33.110 --> 00:30:35.030 The same regiment as Custer. 00:30:39.530 --> 00:30:40.820 Thank you, sir. 00:30:40.870 --> 00:30:44.040 Be sensible with your new love 00:30:45.620 --> 00:30:47.920 Don't be fooled thinking 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:52.340 This is the last you'll find 00:30:52.380 --> 00:30:55.260 But they never stood in the dark 00:30:55.340 --> 00:30:58.470 With you, love 00:30:58.550 --> 00:31:01.550 When you take me in your arms 00:31:01.600 --> 00:31:05.930 And drive me slowly out of my mind 00:31:06.020 --> 00:31:08.810 Kiss me, kiss me 00:31:08.890 --> 00:31:11.230 And when you do I'll know 00:32:48.740 --> 00:32:50.870 Look around you. 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:55.710 In the 7th Cavalry... 00:32:55.750 --> 00:32:58.750 we got a captain from the Ukraine. 00:32:59.840 --> 00:33:02.880 Another from Puerto Rico. 00:33:02.930 --> 00:33:05.260 We've got Japanese, Chinese... 00:33:05.340 --> 00:33:08.260 Blacks, Hispanics, Cherokee Indians. 00:33:09.470 --> 00:33:12.560 Jews and gentiles. 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:15.100 All Americans. 00:33:15.190 --> 00:33:18.230 Now, here in the States... 00:33:18.270 --> 00:33:21.440 some men in this unit... 00:33:21.530 --> 00:33:25.950 may experience discrimination because of race or creed. 00:33:25.990 --> 00:33:27.950 But for you and me now... 00:33:29.580 --> 00:33:31.000 all that is gone. 00:33:32.080 --> 00:33:35.580 We're moving into the Valley of the Shadow of Death... 00:33:37.420 --> 00:33:41.260 where you will watch the back of the man next to you... 00:33:41.340 --> 00:33:43.510 as he will watch yours. 00:33:43.590 --> 00:33:45.970 And you won't care what color he is... 00:33:46.050 --> 00:33:49.510 or by what name he calls God. 00:33:50.600 --> 00:33:52.520 They say we're leaving home. 00:33:55.230 --> 00:33:58.770 We're going to what home was always supposed to be. 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:04.400 So let us understand the situation. 00:34:04.490 --> 00:34:07.450 We are going into battle... 00:34:07.490 --> 00:34:10.490 against a tough and determined enemy. 00:34:15.460 --> 00:34:18.000 I can't promise you... 00:34:18.080 --> 00:34:21.300 that I will bring you all home alive. 00:34:22.710 --> 00:34:24.340 But this I swear 00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:29.140 before you and before Almighty God 00:34:29.220 --> 00:34:31.180 that when we go into battle... 00:34:32.680 --> 00:34:35.810 I will be the first to set foot on the field... 00:34:37.310 --> 00:34:39.810 and I will be the last to step off. 00:34:42.190 --> 00:34:45.650 And I will leave no one behind. 00:34:50.200 --> 00:34:52.120 Dead or alive... 00:34:53.990 --> 00:34:56.460 we will all come home together. 00:34:58.790 --> 00:35:01.290 So help me God. 00:38:27.670 --> 00:38:29.590 I love you. 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:31.520 Hal, last night the enemy hit our camp at Plaei Me. 00:41:31.600 --> 00:41:33.100 - How many casualties? - None. 00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:36.310 The enemy forces withdrew toward this mountain... 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:38.020 near the Cambodian border. 00:41:38.110 --> 00:41:40.320 How many men do you have battle-ready? 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:43.200 - Sergeant Major? - Three hundred ninety-five, sir. 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.450 Exactly. 00:41:45.530 --> 00:41:46.990 What do you estimate the enemy strength? 00:41:47.030 --> 00:41:49.370 We appraise their numbers as manageable, Colonel. 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:52.450 You have no idea. 00:41:53.410 --> 00:41:56.040 We have no idea. Simple orders, Hal. 00:41:56.130 --> 00:41:58.500 Find the enemy and kill him. 00:42:01.420 --> 00:42:05.630 They attack us, no casualties. They run and hide in the mountains. 00:42:06.300 --> 00:42:08.220 Naturally we chase them, of course. 00:42:09.720 --> 00:42:12.140 Smell like an ambush to you? 00:42:12.220 --> 00:42:16.150 They get close enough to kill us, we'll be close enough to kill them. 00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:22.570 Round trip by chopper, 30 minutes. 00:42:22.650 --> 00:42:27.320 So the first 60 men on the ground will be there half an hour alone. 00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:28.820 Son of a bitch. 00:42:30.030 --> 00:42:33.620 I think maybe you ought to get yourself that M-16. 00:42:33.700 --> 00:42:37.620 Time comes I need one, there'll be plenty of 'em lying on the ground. 00:42:42.710 --> 00:42:45.970 Well, let's go do what we came here to do. 00:42:47.050 --> 00:42:48.470 Yes, sir. 00:43:01.730 --> 00:43:03.150 Garry Owen! 00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.260 It was a Sunday. 00:44:15.310 --> 00:44:18.140 November 14, 1965. 00:44:19.350 --> 00:44:22.440 Before that day, the soldiers of North Vietnam... 00:44:22.520 --> 00:44:23.980 and those of America... 00:44:24.020 --> 00:44:26.900 never met each other in a major battle. 00:44:55.510 --> 00:44:58.220 Two miles out. Dropping to nap of the earth. 00:48:00.660 --> 00:48:03.830 First Platoon, let's move! 00:48:14.170 --> 00:48:18.090 This is Trojan Two. All units maintain perimeter contact. Over. 00:48:22.220 --> 00:48:24.220 It's a scout! Let's take him prisoner! 00:48:25.260 --> 00:48:26.680 Hey! Lieutenant! 00:48:31.900 --> 00:48:34.150 There he goes! Come on! 00:48:38.860 --> 00:48:40.360 Come on! 00:48:40.450 --> 00:48:43.280 Captain, I want you to keep in contact with all patrols. 00:48:45.740 --> 00:48:48.370 Hey, I got something here. I got a boy! Here. 00:48:48.410 --> 00:48:49.710 Boy, hell. 00:48:49.790 --> 00:48:51.210 That ain't no boy. 00:48:56.250 --> 00:48:59.010 - He say he a deserter. - Bullshit, he's a lookout. 00:48:59.090 --> 00:49:01.010 Ask him where his friends are. 00:49:07.640 --> 00:49:09.600 He say this is base camp of whole division. 00:49:10.430 --> 00:49:12.310 - Four thousand men. - Where? 00:49:18.110 --> 00:49:19.900 That mountain. 00:49:28.080 --> 00:49:29.580 Same army destroyed French. 00:49:29.660 --> 00:49:33.580 And he say they want kill American very badly. 00:49:33.620 --> 00:49:35.710 Just not been able to find any yet. 00:49:35.790 --> 00:49:39.170 Captain Metsker, tell all patrols to hold their positions. 00:49:47.930 --> 00:49:49.890 You, take the radio! 00:49:51.810 --> 00:49:54.900 - Where are they? - Sir, we gotta get that guy! 00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:03.030 Call in all the patrols! 00:50:03.110 --> 00:50:06.370 We have to engage the enemy as far away from the LZ as possible! 00:50:10.200 --> 00:50:12.160 Net Call, Net Call, this is Trojan-Two. 00:50:12.200 --> 00:50:14.290 Grab the wounded! Break contact! 00:50:15.330 --> 00:50:17.960 Fall back! Get to high ground! 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:20.800 Cover fire! Get to high ground! 00:50:20.840 --> 00:50:22.260 Come on! 00:50:32.470 --> 00:50:35.480 Come on! Get up here! Bring the wounded up to the middle! 00:50:35.560 --> 00:50:37.310 Move it, move it! 00:50:37.350 --> 00:50:39.690 Cover fire! Cover fire! 00:50:42.900 --> 00:50:45.490 Everybody down! Down! 00:50:48.530 --> 00:50:51.580 Check your ammo! Everybody check ammo! 00:50:58.960 --> 00:51:00.880 Come on! I'll get us out of here! 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:04.470 Grab the wounded! We'll make a run 00:51:04.550 --> 00:51:06.630 - Sarge! - We gotta get out of here! 00:51:08.220 --> 00:51:11.510 Stay down! Don't anybody move! 00:51:11.600 --> 00:51:13.310 Bungum, stay down! 00:51:25.530 --> 00:51:27.030 You're gonna be okay. 00:51:30.240 --> 00:51:31.700 Stay down. 00:51:32.740 --> 00:51:34.290 Form a perimeter! 00:51:34.370 --> 00:51:37.670 Conserve your ammo and stay down! 00:51:39.790 --> 00:51:42.250 What's happening with those patrols? 00:51:42.290 --> 00:51:46.220 I'm trying to reach them, sir! This is Trojan-Two! Come in! Over! 00:51:46.260 --> 00:51:49.890 Hey! Hey! Calm down! 00:51:49.970 --> 00:51:53.310 Understand the situation and communicate clearly! 00:51:57.600 --> 00:52:01.190 Pull the chain on all the firepower you can get on that mountain! 00:52:01.270 --> 00:52:03.900 Alert Crandall! We have a hot LZ!! 00:52:03.980 --> 00:52:06.530 Agent Serpent-Six, this is Trojan-Two. 00:52:06.610 --> 00:52:09.450 You're coming into a hot LZ. We are taking fire. 00:52:09.530 --> 00:52:11.450 Repeat. We are taking fire. 00:52:12.570 --> 00:52:13.990 No shit. 00:52:15.240 --> 00:52:17.710 This is Too Tall goin' down and dirty. 00:52:22.630 --> 00:52:25.250 Roger that! Trojan-Two, out! 00:52:25.300 --> 00:52:27.920 Herrick's platoon is cut off and under attack. 00:52:28.010 --> 00:52:29.430 Bravo Company's holding. 00:52:30.510 --> 00:52:32.430 They're gonna try and flank us. 00:52:40.850 --> 00:52:42.940 On the ground now! Move! 00:52:44.520 --> 00:52:46.940 - Watch him! - We gotta go. 00:52:46.980 --> 00:52:48.400 We're outta here. 00:52:48.440 --> 00:52:51.200 They're coming at us from the back now! Move! 00:52:57.240 --> 00:52:58.660 Savage. 00:53:01.620 --> 00:53:04.040 All right, all right, I got you. 00:53:05.340 --> 00:53:06.460 Sir? 00:53:07.550 --> 00:53:10.470 Don't let them get the signal codes. 00:53:11.630 --> 00:53:13.340 Roger that, sir. 00:53:18.560 --> 00:53:21.810 I'm glad I could die for my country. 00:53:33.160 --> 00:53:34.490 Doc. 00:53:51.510 --> 00:53:53.430 Bungum. 00:53:54.510 --> 00:53:55.930 Sarge? 00:54:01.680 --> 00:54:03.100 Tell my wife... 00:54:04.480 --> 00:54:05.900 I love her. 00:54:08.520 --> 00:54:09.940 This is Savage. 00:54:10.030 --> 00:54:14.660 I need artillery to these coordinates: niner-3-3-0-1 00:54:17.570 --> 00:54:20.490 Ernie! Ernie, help! We got more coming! 00:54:20.540 --> 00:54:23.160 We are cut off. Copy? We are cut off. 00:54:25.710 --> 00:54:27.920 - Fire! - Fire! 00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:30.590 - Fire! - Fire! 00:54:31.590 --> 00:54:33.130 They're getting closer! 00:54:35.380 --> 00:54:37.590 They're getting closer! A hundred more, sir! 00:54:45.640 --> 00:54:48.650 They're right on top of us, sir! Bring it in close! 00:55:52.290 --> 00:55:56.260 It's a hot LZ! We'll be jumping! We will not touch down. 00:56:09.650 --> 00:56:11.610 They're trying to break right through us! 00:56:11.650 --> 00:56:15.780 I want you to reinforce Alpha Company there! Now! Move! 00:56:15.860 --> 00:56:17.990 Follow me! Charlie Company, up on the ridge! 00:56:18.070 --> 00:56:22.030 Doc, the wounded are over by that termite mound! Go! 00:56:22.120 --> 00:56:24.830 Sir, if you don't find some cover, you're gonna go down! 00:56:24.910 --> 00:56:27.450 If you go down, we all go down! Come on! 00:56:43.220 --> 00:56:44.390 Cobain! 00:56:44.470 --> 00:56:47.560 I want the M-60 right here! 00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:55.820 Radio! 00:56:58.650 --> 00:57:01.070 Sir, it's Captain Edwards on the ridge, sir! 00:57:02.160 --> 00:57:04.780 - Bob! - Colonel, these guys are regulars! 00:57:04.870 --> 00:57:08.830 Heavily armed! AK-47s and pouches of grenades! 00:57:08.870 --> 00:57:11.370 Heavy machine guns and shoulder-fired rockets! 00:57:29.730 --> 00:57:31.440 Captain Nadal! 00:57:31.520 --> 00:57:34.400 That creek bed is vital. Vital! 00:57:34.480 --> 00:57:37.400 They'll be coming right at you! Do not let them flank! 00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:39.690 I repeat, do not let them flank! 00:57:40.240 --> 00:57:42.200 Secure the creek bed! 00:57:59.170 --> 00:58:02.090 Tom, I want you to keep trying to raise those Medevac boys. 00:58:15.020 --> 00:58:17.060 I'm all right. 00:58:17.110 --> 00:58:19.070 Charlie, come here. 00:58:19.110 --> 00:58:22.700 Get me all the air support you can get me on that mountain! Now! 00:58:22.780 --> 00:58:24.860 Requesting immediate close air support! 00:58:24.950 --> 00:58:26.820 I need you to burn 'em out... 00:58:26.910 --> 00:58:31.290 on hilltop Alpha, shift to Alpha Bravo! 00:58:31.370 --> 00:58:35.580 Coordinates: Golf-4-5-0-9! 00:58:50.600 --> 00:58:53.930 - Get me something higher up! - Shifting to hilltop Bravo! 00:58:54.020 --> 00:58:57.400 Golf-4-5-7-2! 00:58:58.730 --> 00:59:02.440 I say again, 4-5-7-2! 00:59:14.410 --> 00:59:17.290 Medevac Command of the 7th Cavalry, are you inbound? 00:59:17.330 --> 00:59:19.290 Looks pretty hot down there. 00:59:19.340 --> 00:59:22.840 Yeah. You can make it, though. Watch our approach, follow us in. 00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:26.340 Copy that, 7th Cav. We will follow your approach. 00:59:44.070 --> 00:59:47.570 I want you to get over there and reinforce Charlie Company there! 00:59:49.740 --> 00:59:52.660 Medevac, abort! Abort! This is a hot LZ! 00:59:52.700 --> 00:59:56.830 You see that? My Medevac guys are buggin' out and leaving the wounded! 01:00:00.290 --> 01:00:01.500 We're going down! 01:00:11.470 --> 01:00:14.560 - Snake, get out of here! - Bring me the wounded! 01:00:14.640 --> 01:00:16.180 Wounded! Get the wounded! 01:00:16.270 --> 01:00:18.060 Come on! Come on! 01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:25.030 Okay, here! 01:00:25.110 --> 01:00:28.070 They're still trying to flank us! Stretch out along the line! 01:00:32.570 --> 01:00:34.030 Radio! 01:00:37.410 --> 01:00:41.210 Trojan-Six! We are in heavy contact! In danger of being overrun! 01:00:41.290 --> 01:00:44.630 If they get into that LZ, we've all had it. Can you hold? 01:00:44.710 --> 01:00:47.210 We're spread thin, sir, but we'll give 'em hell! 01:00:54.890 --> 01:00:57.810 Crandall, this is Trojan-Six. It's too hot down here. 01:00:57.890 --> 01:01:00.810 - I'm closing the LZ. - You copy that, Too Tall? 01:01:00.890 --> 01:01:02.900 Copy that, Snake. 01:01:02.980 --> 01:01:05.940 All 7th Cav air units: LZ X-Ray is closed. 01:01:06.030 --> 01:01:09.190 I don't like it. First time out, a whole battalion massacred? 01:01:09.240 --> 01:01:11.410 You think this is a massacre? 01:01:11.490 --> 01:01:14.780 Losing draftees is a bad week. Losing a colonel is a massacre. 01:01:14.870 --> 01:01:16.290 Moore is still fighting. 01:01:16.370 --> 01:01:18.410 He's under strength against more men than he can count. 01:01:18.500 --> 01:01:21.170 - He's got a whole platoon lost. - They're not lost. 01:01:21.250 --> 01:01:23.380 They're only cut off and surrounded. 01:01:26.670 --> 01:01:28.260 Then they're lost. 01:01:28.340 --> 01:01:30.760 - Sergeant Major! - Sir! 01:01:32.720 --> 01:01:36.220 We need to carve out an emergency LZ right over there. 01:01:36.260 --> 01:01:38.270 - Sir! - Blow the trees down! 01:01:47.780 --> 01:01:49.780 Fire in the hole! 01:01:55.660 --> 01:01:57.740 Colonel, this is Snakeshit and Too Tall. 01:01:57.830 --> 01:01:59.700 We're comin' in with two loads of ammo. 01:01:59.790 --> 01:02:01.750 Crandall, we've blown a new LZ. 01:02:01.870 --> 01:02:04.330 When you come in, come in from the east. Out. 01:02:08.670 --> 01:02:10.760 Colonel, it's Brigade Headquarters. They want you out. 01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:14.340 - Well, we can't get out, damn it! - Not all of us. Just you. 01:02:14.430 --> 01:02:17.350 Saigon wants to debrief you. 01:02:17.390 --> 01:02:19.850 - That doesn't make any sense. - Say again. 01:02:19.890 --> 01:02:22.310 Will you repeat that order? 01:02:28.230 --> 01:02:30.440 Too Tall, follow the colonel to the new LZ. 01:02:30.530 --> 01:02:32.440 I see him, Snake. 01:02:36.530 --> 01:02:39.030 He's right here! Let's go! Move! 01:02:41.540 --> 01:02:43.160 Let's move! Move! 01:02:44.160 --> 01:02:45.960 Oh, shit. 01:02:46.040 --> 01:02:49.380 - Come on! We'll give you a hand! - We're moving on board! 01:02:49.420 --> 01:02:52.510 All right, get that ammo off and get the wounded on! 01:02:52.590 --> 01:02:55.130 Bring 'em on! Get 'em on, boys! 01:03:01.770 --> 01:03:03.430 No, we're overloaded! 01:03:03.520 --> 01:03:05.270 - Leave him! - I'll get out! It's Ray! 01:03:05.350 --> 01:03:07.860 He's hurt worse than me! 01:03:08.900 --> 01:03:11.730 You hang on! I'll see you back there, Ray! 01:03:36.970 --> 01:03:39.300 You, me and Ouellette are all we have in reserve. 01:03:39.390 --> 01:03:41.930 Yeah, but it's slacking up a little. 01:03:42.010 --> 01:03:45.600 No, they're just regrouping for another assault. 01:03:45.680 --> 01:03:47.770 Distribute that ammo. 01:03:47.850 --> 01:03:51.940 Ouellette, tell Crandall he's got time to get one more flight in here. 01:03:51.980 --> 01:03:52.980 Yes, sir. 01:03:56.650 --> 01:03:59.570 Doc, you give this water to the wounded. 01:04:01.740 --> 01:04:04.660 Running out of water. Must be terrible for 'em. 01:04:05.410 --> 01:04:07.830 Those guys are cut off out there. 01:04:13.500 --> 01:04:15.630 Running low on ammo, Sarge! 01:04:15.710 --> 01:04:18.550 Pick your target. One shot, one kill. 01:04:18.630 --> 01:04:21.300 - Roger that, Sarge. - How we doin', Doc? 01:04:21.390 --> 01:04:23.430 Ernie, we're out of water. 01:04:24.890 --> 01:04:26.770 That's the last of it. 01:04:41.450 --> 01:04:43.370 My face is on fire! Help! 01:04:43.450 --> 01:04:45.910 Foster, hold still! Hold still! 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:47.790 I'll cut your face! Hold still! 01:05:02.140 --> 01:05:04.270 Doc, Doc, it's Foster! 01:05:04.350 --> 01:05:05.600 Okay. 01:05:07.560 --> 01:05:10.020 Does anybody have any more bandages? 01:05:26.660 --> 01:05:28.670 Ernie, you hit too? You hit? 01:05:28.750 --> 01:05:30.130 No, no, I'm okay. 01:05:30.210 --> 01:05:32.460 Our guys are gonna come for us, aren't they? 01:05:35.050 --> 01:05:36.340 Yeah. 01:05:36.380 --> 01:05:38.010 When? 01:05:40.050 --> 01:05:41.680 Plug his wound. 01:05:44.220 --> 01:05:47.140 That's the main LZ, but it's closed. 01:05:57.190 --> 01:05:59.450 Go! Move! 01:06:01.910 --> 01:06:05.660 Go, Parker! Get up in there! This is too Tall. I'm clear... 01:06:05.700 --> 01:06:08.040 Crandall's clear... 01:06:13.250 --> 01:06:14.630 Colonel! 01:06:14.710 --> 01:06:18.420 Go over and reinforce that company! On that ridge there! Look! 01:06:18.470 --> 01:06:21.090 Yes, sir! Okay! Keep your head down! 01:06:23.600 --> 01:06:25.640 To the top of the ridge! Move it! 01:06:25.720 --> 01:06:27.770 Come on, let's move! Move! 01:06:30.940 --> 01:06:32.350 Run! Come on! 01:06:39.150 --> 01:06:43.370 Captain Nadal, we've got to break through to that cutoff platoon! 01:06:44.410 --> 01:06:47.160 We got an American platoon out there. 01:06:47.240 --> 01:06:50.210 An Air Cav platoon cut off out there! 01:06:50.290 --> 01:06:51.750 Air Cav! 01:06:52.710 --> 01:06:54.000 Garry Owen! 01:07:11.980 --> 01:07:13.980 He said, "Really? Me too." I said, "I know. 01:07:14.020 --> 01:07:16.980 Your mama asked me to give you $600." 01:07:19.440 --> 01:07:21.030 Good luck to you. 01:07:26.160 --> 01:07:28.290 Hey, you got enough room for one more? 01:07:29.370 --> 01:07:32.330 If you're crazy enough, get in. Yes, sir. 01:07:49.010 --> 01:07:51.640 Hey, what are those lights down there? 01:07:52.480 --> 01:07:54.600 Enemy soldiers. 01:07:54.690 --> 01:07:56.650 They use candles on the trail. 01:07:57.690 --> 01:08:00.070 They're moving into position to attack. 01:08:03.490 --> 01:08:05.450 Here we go! 01:08:27.430 --> 01:08:31.890 Unload that shit! Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go! 01:08:36.940 --> 01:08:40.020 You and your boys have done a hell of a job today, Snake. 01:08:40.770 --> 01:08:45.400 It's the last flight for the night, but you need us, you call us. 01:08:49.070 --> 01:08:52.040 Who in the hell are you? I'm a reporter, sir. 01:08:52.990 --> 01:08:54.410 Yeah. 01:08:54.500 --> 01:08:56.870 Joe Galloway, UPI. How's it going, Colonel? 01:08:56.960 --> 01:09:00.340 We've been flat to the boards since last night, and we're outnumbered. 01:09:01.670 --> 01:09:05.300 More enemy coming too. I saw a chain of lights coming down the mountain. 01:09:05.380 --> 01:09:07.550 Is that so? Yes, sir. 01:09:07.630 --> 01:09:09.930 Well, I can't guarantee your safety. 01:09:10.010 --> 01:09:12.100 Yes, sir, I know. 01:09:12.180 --> 01:09:15.140 Where you from, son? Refugio, Texas, sir. 01:09:15.230 --> 01:09:18.520 Well, that's the first thing I heard all day that makes any sense. 01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:22.020 Captain, you see those lights coming down the trails on the mountain? 01:09:22.110 --> 01:09:25.110 On it right now, sir. You fry them sons of bitches. 01:09:25.190 --> 01:09:27.070 Whiskey-Six, this is Trojan-Three. Fire mission. 01:09:27.150 --> 01:09:31.120 Tango Foxtrot: 4-niner-6-5-6-niner. 01:09:38.080 --> 01:09:40.790 All operations are suspended for the evening. 01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:44.550 Morning operations will be scheduled for 0530 hours. 01:10:15.540 --> 01:10:16.660 Where's Crandall? 01:10:16.700 --> 01:10:19.290 Where's Crandall? He's right there, sir. 01:10:20.540 --> 01:10:22.830 You led my men into a hot LZ. 01:10:22.920 --> 01:10:24.590 Somebody had to fly out the wounded. 01:10:24.670 --> 01:10:27.550 Don't you play hotshot with me. You know the rules. 01:10:27.630 --> 01:10:30.340 You suckered us in there. Do it again, I'll have you busted! 01:10:30.380 --> 01:10:34.350 You got the balls to face me, but not the balls to face the enemy? 01:10:35.430 --> 01:10:37.350 Get outta here. Whoa! 01:10:37.430 --> 01:10:40.140 I ever see you again, I'll kill you. 01:10:43.980 --> 01:10:45.400 That's right. 01:10:54.120 --> 01:10:56.030 Quite a day, huh? 01:11:01.370 --> 01:11:03.330 Tomorrow will be worse. 01:11:06.210 --> 01:11:08.880 If they make it to tomorrow. 01:11:18.770 --> 01:11:21.690 Ernie, it's pitch black. I can't see anything, but I can smell 'em. 01:11:22.810 --> 01:11:24.480 Dead bodies stink, Bungum. 01:11:24.520 --> 01:11:27.940 No, it's not the dead ones. I can smell them crawling up on us. 01:11:29.030 --> 01:11:30.940 I'm telling you. 01:11:35.570 --> 01:11:39.700 I need illumination, 6-5-0, 1-5-0. 01:11:57.640 --> 01:12:00.310 I need artillery on previously established targets! 01:12:00.390 --> 01:12:03.730 Alpha, Bravo and Charlie! Fire for effect! 01:12:03.770 --> 01:12:05.730 Fire for effect! 01:12:08.190 --> 01:12:11.280 Save your ammo! Cease fire! 01:12:12.360 --> 01:12:13.450 Is anybody hit? 01:12:15.490 --> 01:12:18.780 Captain, if you guys are coming you gotta let us know. 01:12:18.830 --> 01:12:21.790 It's pitch black out here. I don't wanna shoot any of our own guys. 01:12:23.870 --> 01:12:25.290 Savage... 01:12:26.540 --> 01:12:28.500 we can't make it tonight. 01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:33.920 Don't worry. You're gonna make it. 01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:37.180 We'll come get you in the morning. 01:12:39.720 --> 01:12:41.390 Yes, sir. 01:12:42.720 --> 01:12:44.140 Out. 01:13:38.530 --> 01:13:40.700 You're doing a fine job, son. 01:13:40.740 --> 01:13:44.290 Don't worry. We gave them more than they gave us today. 01:13:45.040 --> 01:13:46.960 How you boys doing? Fine, sir. 01:13:47.040 --> 01:13:50.130 You keep doing what you're doing, we'll be fine. 01:13:51.210 --> 01:13:55.090 Your men have done a hell of a job today, Lieutenant Geoghegan. 01:13:55.170 --> 01:13:57.920 They won't get through us, sir. You can count on it. 01:13:58.010 --> 01:13:59.680 I know that, Jack. 01:13:59.760 --> 01:14:01.180 Keep it up, son. 01:14:03.220 --> 01:14:05.470 It's Rear Headquarters, sir. 01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:06.890 How is it out there, Colonel? 01:14:06.930 --> 01:14:09.140 We're surrounded, but we're holding on, sir. 01:14:11.150 --> 01:14:14.230 Sir, I need a confirmed count of our dead and wounded. 01:14:14.320 --> 01:14:16.860 I got to know where all my boys are. 01:14:16.900 --> 01:14:18.150 You'll get it, Hal. 01:14:22.280 --> 01:14:23.450 Here they come. 01:14:23.530 --> 01:14:24.740 Captain Edwards. 01:14:26.580 --> 01:14:27.910 We need illumination on the perimeter. 01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:30.120 Whiskey-Five, this is Hot Wire-Six-Alpha. 01:14:30.210 --> 01:14:32.880 We need illumination now. 01:15:08.870 --> 01:15:10.330 Kathy? 01:15:28.100 --> 01:15:29.140 A telegram. 01:15:29.930 --> 01:15:32.980 A cab delivers a telegram. 01:15:33.060 --> 01:15:36.190 "The Secretary of the Army... 01:15:37.980 --> 01:15:38.940 regrets..." 01:16:38.040 --> 01:16:39.340 Mrs. Moore? 01:16:39.420 --> 01:16:41.340 Colonel Moore's wife? 01:16:43.630 --> 01:16:44.760 Yes. 01:16:46.470 --> 01:16:48.930 I need help finding an address. 01:16:50.260 --> 01:16:52.600 I'm looking for... You jackass! 01:16:52.680 --> 01:16:57.100 Do you know what this is? Do you know what you just did to me? 01:17:09.910 --> 01:17:11.990 I don't like this job, ma'am. 01:17:13.410 --> 01:17:15.330 I'm just trying to do it. 01:17:20.040 --> 01:17:20.960 Wait. 01:17:21.880 --> 01:17:23.340 Wait. 01:17:26.680 --> 01:17:28.510 I'll take it to her. 01:17:35.560 --> 01:17:38.900 And tell the cab company, if there are any others, just bring them to me. 01:17:50.280 --> 01:17:51.950 Julie. 01:17:52.030 --> 01:17:54.290 I just went by to see Catherine. 01:17:54.370 --> 01:17:55.790 Everybody knows. 01:17:57.000 --> 01:17:59.460 No chaplains or counselors? Cab drivers? 01:17:59.540 --> 01:18:01.460 The Army wasn't ready. 01:18:04.300 --> 01:18:06.670 I'll go with you. 01:18:06.760 --> 01:18:08.680 Thanks. Who's it for? 01:18:51.090 --> 01:18:53.010 I thought she would hate me. 01:18:54.510 --> 01:18:57.060 Your husband didn't start the war. 01:18:57.140 --> 01:19:00.060 They all knew this could happen, and so did we. 01:19:22.000 --> 01:19:23.920 I'll take care of this. 01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:25.920 I'll go with you. 01:19:28.880 --> 01:19:31.470 We'll do one at a time. Okay? 01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:34.090 We won't look. 01:19:34.180 --> 01:19:35.600 Okay. 01:20:31.650 --> 01:20:33.450 Julie... 01:20:33.530 --> 01:20:36.450 do you think there'll be more telegrams tomorrow? 01:20:39.950 --> 01:20:42.410 If there are, come and get me. 01:21:02.430 --> 01:21:05.890 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, amen. 01:21:07.560 --> 01:21:10.980 Out of the depths I cry unto Thee, O Lord. 01:21:11.020 --> 01:21:12.980 Lord, hear my voice. 01:21:14.070 --> 01:21:18.740 Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. 01:21:18.780 --> 01:21:21.530 Thou, O Lord, shall mark our inequities. 01:21:23.290 --> 01:21:25.210 Lord, who can abide them? 01:21:28.250 --> 01:21:30.170 With Thee there is mercy. 01:21:32.630 --> 01:21:35.220 Grant them eternal rest, O Lord... 01:21:35.300 --> 01:21:37.720 and may perpetual light shine upon them. 01:21:39.050 --> 01:21:43.180 And through the mercy of God, may they rest in peace. Amen. 01:21:43.270 --> 01:21:46.230 In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. 01:21:52.860 --> 01:21:55.280 Do you got a death wish, Galloway? 01:21:55.320 --> 01:21:57.400 No, sir. 01:21:57.490 --> 01:21:59.410 Well, then why are you here? 01:22:03.910 --> 01:22:06.250 'Cause I knew these dead boys would be here, sir. 01:22:15.130 --> 01:22:17.260 Why aren't you a soldier? 01:22:17.380 --> 01:22:19.260 You got the guts for it. 01:22:19.300 --> 01:22:21.300 My daddy was a soldier. 01:22:21.390 --> 01:22:25.520 My granddaddy, two of my great-granddaddies was soldiers. 01:22:25.600 --> 01:22:27.480 Hell, that's how I came to be. 01:22:28.270 --> 01:22:31.020 Each of them lost a leg in the Civil War. 01:22:31.060 --> 01:22:33.690 My Great-granddaddy Galloway, he lost his left... 01:22:33.730 --> 01:22:36.690 and my Great-granddaddy Reid lost his right. 01:22:38.150 --> 01:22:41.110 They met in a shoe store in Galveston. 01:22:41.160 --> 01:22:44.450 Every year after that, same date, same store, they'd get together... 01:22:44.530 --> 01:22:47.450 and pick out a new pair of shoes for the two of them. 01:22:47.540 --> 01:22:49.460 You are shittin' me. No, sir. 01:22:49.540 --> 01:22:50.960 I swear to God. 01:22:52.500 --> 01:22:56.090 Anyway, one had a daughter, one had a son... my grandparents. 01:22:56.170 --> 01:22:59.590 What do you suppose the odds of them having the same shoe size was? 01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:05.180 I don't know, Colonel. It was meant to be, I guess. 01:23:05.220 --> 01:23:06.680 Yeah. 01:23:07.930 --> 01:23:09.350 Meant to be. 01:23:11.140 --> 01:23:14.980 Sir, Galloways have been in every war this country's ever fought. 01:23:15.070 --> 01:23:19.490 But when it came to this one, I didn't think I could stop the war. 01:23:20.610 --> 01:23:23.410 I just thought maybe I might try and understand one. 01:23:24.490 --> 01:23:27.620 Maybe help folks back home understand. 01:23:30.250 --> 01:23:32.750 I just figure I could do that better... 01:23:32.830 --> 01:23:35.500 shooting a camera than I could shooting a rifle. 01:23:38.920 --> 01:23:40.340 Well... 01:23:42.590 --> 01:23:45.550 I sure hope you make it through this one. 01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:47.060 You too, Colonel. 01:25:40.670 --> 01:25:42.590 Right 20! 01:25:59.100 --> 01:26:01.190 Put it right on 'em! 01:27:17.220 --> 01:27:18.680 Colonel, sir. 01:27:20.940 --> 01:27:23.270 Captain Nadal. Sir. 01:27:28.440 --> 01:27:29.690 What is it, sir? 01:27:29.780 --> 01:27:31.860 Nothing's wrong, except there's nothing wrong. 01:27:38.290 --> 01:27:41.540 Best get back to the termite mound. You'll be fine. Go on. 01:27:41.580 --> 01:27:43.580 Roger that, sir. Come on! 01:27:43.670 --> 01:27:45.840 All right, pass the word on. 01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:49.840 Every man fire three rounds at anything that looks suspicious. 01:27:49.920 --> 01:27:51.340 On my signal. 01:28:14.030 --> 01:28:16.950 They're gonna hit us like this along the whole perimeter. 01:28:17.030 --> 01:28:18.990 We gotta get back to that termite mound. 01:28:19.040 --> 01:28:20.330 Better hang here, sir! 01:28:21.710 --> 01:28:23.160 Shit. 01:28:26.920 --> 01:28:28.590 We need a medic! 01:28:35.220 --> 01:28:37.010 Sir! Sir! 01:28:37.100 --> 01:28:39.350 Captain Edwards, Charlie Company, on the ridge. 01:28:39.430 --> 01:28:40.890 Bob. 01:28:40.930 --> 01:28:42.520 They're inside the artillery! 01:28:42.600 --> 01:28:43.980 I need... 01:29:11.630 --> 01:29:13.340 I need a grenade! 01:29:25.480 --> 01:29:27.600 Go, Willie! Come on, let's go! 01:29:33.280 --> 01:29:34.820 Godboldt down! 01:29:38.320 --> 01:29:39.490 I'll get him! 01:29:46.750 --> 01:29:48.170 Willie! 01:30:03.060 --> 01:30:04.430 Get those guys help! 01:30:04.520 --> 01:30:09.270 Captain Dillon, get Bravo Company to send a platoon across the LZ... 01:30:09.350 --> 01:30:11.440 and support Charlie Company. 01:30:11.520 --> 01:30:14.110 Bravo-Six, this is Trojan-Three. 01:30:14.190 --> 01:30:17.360 And tell Charlie Company to get real small in their holes. 01:30:17.450 --> 01:30:20.280 I'm gonna drop some artillery right on top of'em! 01:30:20.370 --> 01:30:21.620 Charlie Company, get small. 01:30:21.700 --> 01:30:24.290 We got AT coming right on top of your position. 01:30:24.370 --> 01:30:26.080 We're being overrun! 01:30:26.160 --> 01:30:28.790 Nah, boys! We're gonna win this fight. 01:31:15.250 --> 01:31:19.380 Yes, sir, they brought a main force of VC battalion against us too. 01:31:19.470 --> 01:31:22.430 Colonel, I request you dispatch another company of reinforcements... 01:31:22.510 --> 01:31:26.510 for movement as soon as it can be accomplished without undue risk. 01:31:26.600 --> 01:31:29.060 Done. How bad is it, Hal? 01:31:34.020 --> 01:31:36.230 It's getting pretty sporty down here, sir. 01:31:38.650 --> 01:31:40.740 Get out of the way! 01:31:50.210 --> 01:31:52.710 Medic! Get a medic over here! 01:31:57.130 --> 01:32:00.470 What's your name, soldier? Jimmy Nakayama. 01:32:00.550 --> 01:32:02.470 I got a baby being born today. 01:32:02.550 --> 01:32:04.760 Oh, wow! Congratulations! Thanks! 01:32:09.430 --> 01:32:10.810 Medic! 01:32:10.890 --> 01:32:13.060 Medic! 01:32:15.900 --> 01:32:18.150 Can't take no pictures lying down there, sonny. 01:32:21.490 --> 01:32:23.150 Down, right there. 01:32:28.030 --> 01:32:29.830 I'm a noncombatant, sir. 01:32:29.910 --> 01:32:31.960 Ain't no such thing today, boy. 01:32:36.710 --> 01:32:37.960 Shit. 01:32:40.050 --> 01:32:42.170 Why aren't those mortars firing? 01:32:42.220 --> 01:32:44.300 What's the problem here? 01:32:44.340 --> 01:32:45.800 These tubes are red hot, sir. 01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:48.600 I'm afraid we're gonna cook a round off and blow us all up. 01:32:48.640 --> 01:32:51.600 We can't cool 'em off 'cause we're all out of water. 01:32:57.810 --> 01:32:59.900 Come on! What are you waiting for? 01:32:59.940 --> 01:33:01.860 Jimmy, come on. 01:33:02.900 --> 01:33:04.780 Go, go, go. 01:33:04.820 --> 01:33:07.120 Yeah, one more. 01:33:28.800 --> 01:33:30.510 Gentlemen... 01:33:30.600 --> 01:33:32.640 prepare to defend yourselves. 01:33:42.940 --> 01:33:44.150 Grenade! 01:34:32.200 --> 01:34:34.830 Negative! Negative! Stand by! 01:34:34.870 --> 01:34:39.040 My pilots do not see the enemy. They cannot pick out our friendlies. 01:34:39.120 --> 01:34:40.750 Bravo-Six, say again. 01:34:40.830 --> 01:34:44.090 You gotta tell your company commander to pop smoke now. 01:34:44.130 --> 01:34:47.510 They need to mark the lines now! We have no lines! 01:34:47.550 --> 01:34:50.800 We have enemies and friendlies mixed in all over the place. 01:34:50.890 --> 01:34:52.850 Sir, our perimeter is collapsing. 01:34:52.930 --> 01:34:55.180 Alpha Company and Bravo Company cannot hold. 01:34:55.220 --> 01:34:57.180 Charlie Company is being overrun. 01:34:59.980 --> 01:35:02.110 Net call! Net call! 01:35:02.190 --> 01:35:04.110 Keep this net clear! 01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:21.460 Hastings! 01:35:25.590 --> 01:35:27.130 Broken arrow! 01:35:29.800 --> 01:35:31.970 Broken arrow! 01:35:32.050 --> 01:35:35.140 I say again! Broken arrow! 01:35:35.220 --> 01:35:37.310 We have broken arrow! We have broken arrow! 01:35:37.390 --> 01:35:38.890 Confirm. Broken arrow. 01:35:38.930 --> 01:35:40.850 Broken arrow confirmed. 01:35:40.890 --> 01:35:42.060 Broken arrow? 01:35:42.100 --> 01:35:44.230 That means that an American unit has been overrun. 01:35:44.270 --> 01:35:47.070 It calls in every combat aircraft for support. 01:35:47.110 --> 01:35:50.240 My God, there's no hiding it now. 01:36:11.550 --> 01:36:14.260 Charlie Company, report! Signal is out! 01:36:14.260 --> 01:36:16.470 Bravo Company, report! 01:36:16.550 --> 01:36:20.520 Roger that! Planes are on their way, Colonel! 01:36:21.350 --> 01:36:22.480 Sir! 01:36:26.480 --> 01:36:27.940 Roger that! 01:36:39.040 --> 01:36:41.450 We have planes at every 1,000 feet... 01:36:41.500 --> 01:36:44.540 from 7,000 to 35,000... we'll get 'em, sir! 01:36:46.630 --> 01:36:50.010 Advancing north on our position at 1-5-0. 01:37:08.150 --> 01:37:10.400 Nine-six-two-five-zero-seven-- 01:37:17.820 --> 01:37:20.700 They're getting closer in on 3-1-5 degrees! 01:37:20.740 --> 01:37:24.580 That's 0-5-0! Repeat, 0-5-0! 01:37:30.750 --> 01:37:32.130 Goddamn it. 01:37:43.810 --> 01:37:47.900 Company sighted out in the open, advancing north on our position. 01:37:47.980 --> 01:37:51.270 They're advancing on 3-1-5 degrees at 1-5-0. 01:37:52.900 --> 01:37:56.450 Bring it closer in on 3-1-5 degrees at 0-5-0... 01:37:56.530 --> 01:37:59.530 Charlie, call that son of a bitch off! 01:37:59.570 --> 01:38:01.580 Call an abort now! 01:38:01.660 --> 01:38:02.580 Pull up! 01:38:04.870 --> 01:38:06.620 Get down! 01:38:33.730 --> 01:38:36.440 Charlie, listen to me. You're keeping us alive now. 01:38:36.530 --> 01:38:39.450 You forget about that one and you keep 'em coming in. 01:38:39.530 --> 01:38:41.120 You're doing well, son. 01:38:43.580 --> 01:38:45.580 Seven-oh-two... 01:38:45.620 --> 01:38:47.620 Attack against the tree line. 01:38:58.550 --> 01:39:01.220 Medic! Medic! 01:39:15.900 --> 01:39:19.030 Oh, God! Jimmy. You know this guy? 01:39:19.070 --> 01:39:21.240 You know him? Talk to him. Just talk to him! 01:39:22.070 --> 01:39:24.030 Jimmy, do you hear me? 01:39:24.120 --> 01:39:26.290 It's Joe. It's Joe Galloway. 01:39:26.370 --> 01:39:29.710 Doc's giving you morphine. We're gonna get you out of here. 01:39:36.340 --> 01:39:39.340 We gotta get him to the landing zone. Grab his legs! 01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:54.440 You gotta get him out of here. Hey! Hey! 01:39:54.480 --> 01:39:57.440 I can't help you! You gotta do it by yourself! 01:39:57.530 --> 01:40:00.070 Get him on that chopper, okay? Yes, sir. 01:40:59.090 --> 01:41:01.460 Tell my wife I love her... 01:41:01.550 --> 01:41:03.630 and my baby! 01:41:03.720 --> 01:41:06.180 You tell'em! 01:42:32.180 --> 01:42:33.810 Captain Nadal. Sir... 01:42:33.890 --> 01:42:36.430 Now that we put 'em back on their heels, we got us a lull. 01:42:36.520 --> 01:42:37.850 I want you to attack. 01:42:37.940 --> 01:42:40.690 I want you to go over there and rescue that cut off platoon. 01:42:40.770 --> 01:42:43.860 Yes, sir! First Squad, move out! 01:42:45.530 --> 01:42:47.780 Come on, guys. Move it! 01:42:52.030 --> 01:42:53.330 Add fifty. 01:42:53.950 --> 01:42:55.950 Keep moving the artillery forward! 01:42:56.040 --> 01:42:58.370 Keep walking the artillery forward! 01:42:58.460 --> 01:42:59.540 Spread it out! 01:43:03.460 --> 01:43:05.590 Move it! 01:43:08.050 --> 01:43:10.840 Move it! Keep moving forward! 01:43:26.780 --> 01:43:29.280 Sergeant Savage, you guys still here? 01:43:47.760 --> 01:43:50.430 We have 40 KIA, we have two MIA. 01:43:50.510 --> 01:43:52.430 These are the latest numbers. Over. 01:44:22.250 --> 01:44:25.880 That's a nice day, Sergeant Savage. 01:44:33.890 --> 01:44:36.930 Forty dead, two unaccounted for, sir. 01:44:37.010 --> 01:44:38.850 Right. 01:44:39.720 --> 01:44:42.600 All right, boys, let's get 'em up and get 'em out. 01:44:51.400 --> 01:44:54.320 Let's get 'em out of here and get 'em on the chopper! 01:44:57.330 --> 01:45:00.040 Since most of the men being loaded on the chopper... 01:45:00.120 --> 01:45:01.500 are from Charlie Company... 01:45:01.540 --> 01:45:03.080 I want you to take their place. 01:45:03.160 --> 01:45:06.880 I'll show you where. Follow me. Yes, sir! Let's go! 01:46:04.730 --> 01:46:07.270 Captain, have your men dig some firing steps. 01:46:07.350 --> 01:46:09.520 Throw some dirt on those bodies, keep the smell down. 01:46:09.610 --> 01:46:11.480 Roger, Sergeant Major. 01:46:11.570 --> 01:46:15.700 Kind of makes you wish you'd signed up for submarines, don't it? 01:46:15.780 --> 01:46:20.280 Brigade headquarters wants you out on the first chopper at dawn. 01:46:20.370 --> 01:46:24.000 What idiot would keep ordering that in the middle of a goddamn battle? 01:46:24.040 --> 01:46:27.040 Gen. Westmoreland wants a briefing. Give me the horn. 01:46:27.830 --> 01:46:29.580 I am in a fight... 01:46:29.670 --> 01:46:32.590 and I object to this order to return to Saigon. 01:46:32.670 --> 01:46:34.840 Now, I will not leave my men. 01:46:34.880 --> 01:46:36.880 Is that clear? Out. 01:46:44.470 --> 01:46:46.390 There's two of my men unaccounted for out there... 01:46:46.480 --> 01:46:48.400 and it's where the worst of the fighting was... 01:46:48.480 --> 01:46:50.270 so they'll be out there someplace. 01:46:50.360 --> 01:46:53.150 Let's go out and get 'em. I'm with you, sir. 01:46:53.190 --> 01:46:54.690 All right. 01:46:54.780 --> 01:46:56.280 Let's go. 01:48:49.430 --> 01:48:51.390 They... 01:48:51.480 --> 01:48:53.140 brought another... 01:48:53.230 --> 01:48:55.310 Oh, God, Julie. Julie, it's yours. 01:49:43.450 --> 01:49:45.780 He died keeping my promise. 01:50:16.810 --> 01:50:18.770 Sir, they're ordering us all out. 01:50:18.860 --> 01:50:21.230 All of us. 01:50:21.270 --> 01:50:23.650 They're gonna march reinforcements in. 01:50:23.690 --> 01:50:26.200 They don't understand a damn thing, do they? 01:50:26.990 --> 01:50:28.530 Can't get out. 01:50:31.530 --> 01:50:33.950 He's waiting up there in a cave, and that's what he wants. 01:50:34.040 --> 01:50:36.210 The minute he sees live soldiers hopping on a helicopter... 01:50:36.290 --> 01:50:39.130 he'll be all over us and then he'll get what he wants. 01:50:39.170 --> 01:50:41.460 He'll get his massacre. 01:50:50.050 --> 01:50:52.720 Requesting permission to rejoin the lines, sir. 01:50:56.480 --> 01:50:58.190 All right, son. 01:51:02.270 --> 01:51:04.320 Garry Owen, sir. 01:51:26.920 --> 01:51:29.680 I wonder what was going through Custer's mind when he realized... 01:51:29.760 --> 01:51:32.050 he'd led his men into a slaughter. 01:51:33.720 --> 01:51:36.470 Sir, Custer was a pussy. 01:51:38.480 --> 01:51:40.230 You ain't. 01:51:43.110 --> 01:51:44.730 Goddamn. 01:51:49.820 --> 01:51:51.280 Hell. 01:51:54.780 --> 01:51:56.950 Right now they're planning their final attack... 01:51:57.040 --> 01:51:59.120 the one that will finish us off. 01:52:00.000 --> 01:52:02.460 They'll nibble at us all night, then... 01:52:02.500 --> 01:52:05.550 come dawn they'll hit us with everything they got. 01:52:07.090 --> 01:52:09.670 That's what I'd do if I was him. 01:52:14.720 --> 01:52:18.350 Sergeant Major, hand out the last of the ammunition. 01:52:18.430 --> 01:52:20.350 Yes, sir. 01:53:41.220 --> 01:53:42.640 Fix bayonets. 01:58:00.400 --> 01:58:02.940 You were wondering how Custer felt, sir. 01:58:04.570 --> 01:58:06.160 You ought to ask him. 02:00:24.920 --> 02:00:26.500 Sergeant Savage! 02:00:35.180 --> 02:00:37.470 Checking the dead enemies for documents... 02:00:37.560 --> 02:00:40.100 and I found this on the guy that tried to bayonet you. 02:00:40.140 --> 02:00:42.770 Translated some of it, mostly personal. 02:00:42.850 --> 02:00:45.440 Thought you might wanna have a look at it. 02:01:17.470 --> 02:01:20.230 What was that? It's American artillery. 02:01:22.980 --> 02:01:24.770 Friendly fire. 02:01:24.850 --> 02:01:26.770 How many casualties? 02:01:29.030 --> 02:01:31.650 What the hell happened here, Joe? 02:01:36.320 --> 02:01:37.910 Hey, Joe. 02:01:39.660 --> 02:01:41.710 Colonel Moore! 02:01:44.120 --> 02:01:46.380 Colonel! Colonel Moore! 02:01:49.420 --> 02:01:51.970 What is the key to your victory? Sir, tell us how you feel. 02:01:52.050 --> 02:01:54.220 Do you feel the States will be forced... 02:01:54.300 --> 02:01:56.260 to take the North Vietnamese more seriously? 02:01:56.260 --> 02:01:59.260 How do you feel about the loss of your men, sir? 02:01:59.350 --> 02:02:02.100 Have you notified the families, sir? 02:03:17.340 --> 02:03:19.260 I'm glad you made it, son. 02:03:20.390 --> 02:03:22.720 Thank you, sir. You too. 02:03:27.600 --> 02:03:29.650 I'll never forgive myself. 02:03:32.020 --> 02:03:33.780 For what, sir? 02:03:38.780 --> 02:03:40.700 That my men... 02:03:44.540 --> 02:03:47.040 That my men died and I didn't. 02:04:09.310 --> 02:04:11.480 Sir, I don't... 02:04:11.560 --> 02:04:14.230 I don't know how to tell this story. 02:04:15.570 --> 02:04:17.860 Well, you got to, Joe. 02:04:19.740 --> 02:04:22.620 You tell the American people what these men did here. 02:04:27.330 --> 02:04:29.580 You tell 'em how my troopers died. 02:04:36.210 --> 02:04:37.800 Yes, sir. 02:04:42.340 --> 02:04:43.970 Thank you. 02:05:32.020 --> 02:05:35.060 All of our men, living and dead, are off the field, sir. 02:05:35.150 --> 02:05:37.070 Well done, Sergeant Major. 02:07:34.390 --> 02:07:37.560 In Saigon, Hal Moore's superiors congratulated him... 02:07:37.640 --> 02:07:40.560 for killing over 1,800 enemy soldiers. 02:07:41.860 --> 02:07:44.280 Then ordered him to lead the men of the 7th Cavalry... 02:07:44.320 --> 02:07:46.740 back into the Valley of Death. 02:07:46.820 --> 02:07:48.700 He led them... 02:07:48.780 --> 02:07:50.910 and fought beside them... 02:07:50.950 --> 02:07:53.580 for 235 more days. 02:08:15.430 --> 02:08:18.350 Kids, go to bed. Isn't there someone at the door? 02:08:18.440 --> 02:08:20.600 Go to bed! 02:09:00.850 --> 02:09:04.190 Children, your daddy's home! Daddy! 02:09:10.200 --> 02:09:13.110 Some had families waiting. 02:09:13.200 --> 02:09:16.910 For others, their only family would be the men they bled beside. 02:09:16.990 --> 02:09:20.910 There were no bands, no flags... 02:09:21.000 --> 02:09:23.580 no honor guards to welcome them home. 02:09:24.830 --> 02:09:28.340 They went to war because their country ordered them to. 02:09:28.420 --> 02:09:31.420 But in the end they fought not for their country or their flag. 02:09:32.880 --> 02:09:35.180 They fought for each other... 02:09:39.020 --> 02:09:40.730 Dear Barbara... 02:09:40.810 --> 02:09:45.810 I have no words to express to you my sadness of the loss of Jack. 02:09:47.150 --> 02:09:49.650 The world is a lesser place without him. 02:09:50.740 --> 02:09:53.410 But I know he is with God and the angels. 02:09:53.490 --> 02:09:57.330 And even heaven is improved by his presence there. 02:09:58.790 --> 02:10:00.910 I know you, too, are sure of this... 02:10:01.000 --> 02:10:04.580 and yet this knowledge can't diminish his loss... 02:10:04.670 --> 02:10:06.540 and your grief. 02:10:07.590 --> 02:10:10.880 With abiding respect and affection, Hal Moore. 02:10:24.020 --> 02:10:26.190 We who have seen war... 02:10:26.270 --> 02:10:28.520 will never stop seeing it. 02:10:31.190 --> 02:10:34.990 In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. 02:10:39.160 --> 02:10:41.410 So this is our story... 02:10:42.910 --> 02:10:45.620 for we were soldiers once... 02:10:45.710 --> 02:10:47.630 and young. 02:10:47.654 --> 02:11:07.654 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.