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3. I'm still only in Saigon.
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4. Every time, I think I'm gonna wake up
back in the jungle.
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it was worse.
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until I said yes to a divorce.
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9. When I was there, all I could think of
was getting back into the jungle.
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12. Getting softer.
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13. Every minute I stay in this room,
I get weaker.
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Charlie squats in the bush,
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21. Captain Willard, are you in there?
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22. Yeah, I'm coming.
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23. It was a real choice mission.
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24. And when it was over,
I'd never want another.
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25. - What do you want?
- Are you all right, Captain?
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26. What does it look like?
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27. - Are you Captain Willard, 505th Battalion?
- Affirmative.
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28. - 173rd Airborne?
- Yeah.
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29. - Assigned to SOG?
- Hey, buddy, you gonna shut the door?
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30. We have orders to escort you to the airfield.
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31. - What are the charges?
- Sir?
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32. What'd I do?
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33. There's no charges, Captain.
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34. You have orders to report
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35. - I see.
- All right?
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36. - Nha Trang for me?
- That's right.
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37. Come on, Captain. You still have
a few hours to get cleaned up.
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38. - I'm not feeling too good.
- Captain?
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39. Dave, come here and give me a hand.
We got a dead one.
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40. Come on, Captain. Let's take a shower.
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41. - Don't be an ass.
- Get hold of him good.
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42. We're gonna take a shower, Captain.
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43. - In we go.
- Now stand underneath this, Captain.
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44. I was going to the worst place in the world
and I didn't even know it yet.
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and hundreds of miles up a river
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like a main circuit cable,
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that I got to be the caretaker
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was an accident.
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without telling my own.
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56. - Captain. Good. Come on in.
- Thank you, sir.
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57. - Stand at ease.
- General.
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58. Do you want a cigarette?
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59. No, thank you, sir.
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60. Captain, have you ever seen
this gentleman before?
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61. No, sir.
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62. - Met the General or myself?
- No, sir.
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63. Not personally.
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64. You've worked a lot on your own,
haven't you, Captain?
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65. Yes, sir, I have.
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67. Counterintelligence with COMSEC, I Corps.
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68. I'm not presently disposed
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70. No, sir.
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- Yes, sir.
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83. But you're feeling fit?
You're ready for duty?
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84. Yes, General. Very much so, sir.
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86. Roast beef, and usually it's not bad.
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87. Try some, Jerry, and pass it around.
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88. To save a little time,
we might pass both ways.
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92. Right, well,
why don't I just take a piece here?
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93. Captain, you've heard
of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz?
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94. Yes, sir, I've heard the name.
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95. Jesus.
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96. Operations officer, Fifth Special Forces.
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97. Luke, would you play that tape
for the Captain, please?
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98. - Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir.
- Listen to this carefully, Captain.
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99. October 9, 0430 hours,
sector Peter Victor King.
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100. These were monitored out of Cambodia.
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as Colonel Kurtz's voice.
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102. I watched a snail
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111. Transmission 11, received '68,
December 30, 0500 hours.
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He was outstanding in every way.
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168. Yes, sir. Very much so, sir.
Obviously insane.
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without any decent restraint,
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of any acceptable human conduct.
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180. You understand, Captain,
that this mission does not exist,
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in my face.
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and an officer.
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186. That wasn't supposed to make
any difference to me, but it did.
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in this place
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at the Indy 500.
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189. I took the mission.
What the hell else was I gonna do?
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what I'd do when I found him.
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in a Navy PBR.
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a pretty common sight on the rivers.
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to pick up information and move
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198. I needed the air and the time.
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199. Only problem was, I wouldn't be alone.
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200. Morning, Captain.
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202. Rock 'n' rollers
with one foot in their graves.
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203. - How old are you?
- Seventeen.
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was from New Orleans.
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for New Orleans.
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was a famous surfer
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209. To look at him, you wouldn't believe
he'd ever fired a weapon in his life.
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was from some South Bronx shithole,
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but it sure as shit was the Chief's boat.
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where we can draw enough water
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217. They're both hot, belong to Charlie.
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past the bridge at Do Luong.
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225. Good morning, Vietnam.
I'm Army Specialist Zack Johnson on AFVN.
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right now, also very humid.
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for all Gls
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from the Mayor of Saigon.
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indoors instead of on the windowsills.
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to keep Saigon beautiful.
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who's all alone out there
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at An Khe to their groovy CO...
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236. - The Rolling Stones, Satisfaction.
- All right!
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they wanted this man dead.
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top of his class,
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about 1,000 decorations, et cetera, et cetera.
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and it really put the hook in me,
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that voice with this man.
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and Lyndon Johnson was restricted.
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what he had to tell them.
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he made three requests for transfer
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and was finally accepted.
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- Arc light.
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- B-52 strike.
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- Arc light.
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272. I hate that. Every time I hear that,
something terrible happens.
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or hear them, man.
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- Concussion will suck the air
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276. - Something terrible is gonna happen.
- Smoke!
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those boys just couldn't stay put.
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and gone tear-assing around Nam
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289. They'd given Charlie a few surprises
in their time here.
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290. What they were mopping up now
hadn't even happened yet an hour ago.
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291. Just keep running by. Run for television.
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292. Don't look at the camera.
Just keep... Go on! Keep going.
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293. This is for television.
Don't look at the camera.
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295. Just go by like you're fighting.
Like you're fighting.
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296. Don't look at the camera.
It's for television. Just go through!
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298. Keep going. Don't look at the camera.
Go on. Keep going.
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301. We're all right with the tanks.
It's all right, Captain.
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Intelligence, II Corps.
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on the requirements of my mission.
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I haven't heard from Nha Trang.
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306. Sir, your unit is supposed
to escort us into the Nung!
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307. - We'll see what we can do, but...
- Colonel.
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until this is done, Captain.
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309. All right, let's see what we have.
Let's see what we have.
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310. A two of spades, three of spades,
four of diamonds,
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312. There isn't one worth a jack
in the whole bunch.
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314. - Hey, Captain, what's that?
- Death cards!
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- Death cards!
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316. - Death?
- It lets Charlie know who did this.
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- We will not hurt or harm you.
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- Fire in the hole!
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- Everybody in?
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of the South Vietnamese government.
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by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.
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- Yeah?
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- Any man that's brave enough to...
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is Lance Johnson, the surfer.
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- Down there.
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344. - What's your name, sailor?
- Gunner's Mate Third Class L. Johnson, sir!
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- Wait. Lance Johnson, the surfer?
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346. - Yes, sir.
- Well, it's an honor to meet you, Lance.
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I think you have the best cutback there is.
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349. - Thank you, sir.
- You can cut out the "sir" crap, Lance.
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- Yeah.
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This is Mike from San Diego.
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- Johnny from Malibu.
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354. - John, hi. Far out.
- Pretty solid surfers.
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near your class, though.
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I like to finish operations early,
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- No way.
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from whom all good things come.
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Almighty Father. Amen.
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in the words our savior gave us.
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hallowed be thy name.
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but deliver us from evil.
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for himself.
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and the beer
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to make it just like home,
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and you felt safe with him.
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that had that weird light around him.
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so much as a scratch here.
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Nha Trang forget all about you?
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here and here.
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is kind of hairy, Willard.
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- It's hairy,
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now and again.
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Vin Drin...
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- Dop or Lop?
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about this point at Vin Drin Dop?
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- About six foot.
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It's got both the long right and left slide
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in this whole shitty country.
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may be too shallow.
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410. We'll pick your boat up and put it down
like a baby, right where you want it.
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Airmobile.
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just as long as I like.
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413. And you can get any place up that river
that suits you, young Captain.
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414. Hell, a six-foot peak.
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415. All right, take a gunship
back to the division.
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416. Lance, go with Mike
and let him pick out a board for you,
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417. and bring me my Yater Spoon, the 8'6".
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418. - I don't know, sir, it's...
- What is it, soldier?
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419. Well, I mean, it's pretty hairy in there.
It's Charlie's point.
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420. Charlie don't surf!
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421. Hey, Jesus, Clean,
you ain't gonna believe this. Look.
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422. Hey, man! They're picking up the boat!
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423. - How are you feeling, Jimmy?
- Like a mean motherfucker, sir!
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424. All right, son, let her rip.
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425. Let's go!
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426. I never have gotten used to a light board,
and I can't get used to one.
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427. - I'm used to a heavy board.
- I know, it's a real drag.
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428. - You prefer a heavy or a light board?
- Heavier.
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429. - Really?
- Yeah!
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430. I thought all the young guys
like lighter boards.
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431. You can't ride the nose on those things.
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432. Big Duke Six, this is Eagle Thrust Seven.
We've got it spotted.
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433. Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust,
put on heading 2-7-0.
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434. Assume attack formation.
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435. That's a roger, Big Duke.
Okay, we're going in.
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436. Lance, we'll come in low
out of the rising sun,
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437. and about a mile out,
we'll put on the music.
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438. - Music?
- Yeah, I use Wagner.
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439. Scares the hell out of the slopes.
My boys love it.
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440. Hey, they're gonna play music!
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441. How come all you guys sit on your helmet?
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442. So we don't get our balls blown off.
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443. Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust,
put on psy war op, make it loud.
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444. This is a Romeo Foxtrot. Shall we dance?
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445. - Jimmy!
- Yes, sir!
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446. Run, Charlie!
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447. We got some...
There's more and more down there.
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448. Look out, automatic.50-cal!
.50-cal in the open!
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449. I've spotted a large weapon down below.
We're gonna go down and check it out.
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450. All right, this is Fox Five. We're going in.
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451. - All right. What a shot.
- Outstanding, Red Team. Outstanding.
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452. Get you a case of beer for that.
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453. 6-4-1-0, we're over the village right now.
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454. I think I see a vehicle
down in the courtyard.
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455. - I'm gonna check it out.
- Well done, hawks. Well done.
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456. I want some 20 Mike-Mike Vulcan
right along those tree lines.
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457. Ripple the shit out of them.
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458. Got a vehicle on the bridge,
.50 caliber onboard.
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459. He's moving across to resupply the weapon.
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460. Big Duke Six, clear the area.
I'm coming down myself.
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461. Don't these people ever give up?
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462. Nice shot, Bill.
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463. - Shit!
- All right, all right!
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464. - It's just a flare!
- It's a flare! Gotta get out of here!
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465. Un-ass that shit. Get it out of here!
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466. Get it out. It's just a flare. It's all right.
It's just a flare.
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467. - Everybody all right? Lance, you all right?
- I'm fine!
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468. Get down!
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469. I'm not going! I'm not going! I'm not going!
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470. We just got a secondary
down there in the plaza.
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471. Blue Three, Blue Four,
hold out over position...
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472. Duke Six, Duke Six,
we've got wounded down there.
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473. My God! Oh, my God!
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474. - Get a stretcher over here!
- You're all right.
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475. Please! Help me!
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476. - Please, God! Help me!
- Stay with me, son, you're gonna be okay.
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477. - Let's give him some morphine.
- My God! My God!
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478. - 0-3-7-7-4-2.
- Where's that duster?
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479. I want my wounded out of there
and in the hospital in 15 minutes.
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480. I want my men out.
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481. Somebody stay in there tight with Big Duke.
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482. This is 10-10. We're gonna be in,
throw them on and get out...
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483. She's got a grenade! She's got a grenade!
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484. Jesus! The whole goddamn thing just...
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485. - She blew the shit out of...
- Fucking savages.
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486. - Can I get a medevac?
- What's going on... Christ, she's a sapper.
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487. I'm gonna get that dink bitch.
Get over there, Johnny.
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488. Go in there.
Put that right skid right up her ass.
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489. We gotta get some air in these trees.
It's goddamn eat up with enemy down there.
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490. I'm taking fire. I'm taking hits all over...
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491. Three o'clock! Three o'clock, my position!
Drawing fire, drawing heavy fire!
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492. I'm hit! Mayday! Mayday! I'm going in.
My tail rotor's out. I got control.
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493. - What do you think?
- Wow, this is really exciting, man.
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494. - No, no! The waves! The waves!
- Right.
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495. Look at that, breaks both ways.
Watch. Watch.
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496. Look! Good six-foot swells!
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497. Come here, Lance.
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498. Incoming!
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499. This LZ is still pretty hot, sir.
Maybe you ought to surf somewhere else.
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500. What do you know about surfing, Major?
You're from goddamn New Jersey.
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501. Come here! Come here!
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502. - Change!
- You mean right now, sir?
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503. I wanna see how rideable that stuff is.
Go change.
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504. It's still pretty hairy out there, sir.
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505. - Do you wanna surf, soldier?
- Yes, sir.
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506. That's good, son,
'cause you either surf or fight.
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507. That clear? Now get going.
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508. I'll cover for them.
And bring a board for Lance!
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509. We can't do shit until the boat gets here.
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510. Lance, I'll bet you can't wait
to get out there.
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511. - What?
- See how they break both ways?
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512. One guy can break right, one left,
simultaneous. What do you think of that?
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513. We ought to wait for the tide to come up.
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514. - Lance, come here. Look. Look!
- Incoming!
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515. The tide doesn't come in for six hours!
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516. You wanna wait here for six hours?
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517. Yo! Hey! Chief!
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518. Okay, fellas, quit hiding. Come on!
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519. - Let's go, dickheads, take off!
- God damn it!
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520. Don't you think it's a little risky for R&R?
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521. If I say it's safe to surf this beach, Captain,
it's safe to surf this beach!
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522. I mean, I'm not afraid to surf this place!
I'll surf this fucking place.
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523. Give me that RT, soldier.
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524. Dove Four, this is Big Duke Six.
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525. God damn it! I want that tree line bombed!
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526. Big Duke Six, roger.
Dove One-Three, stand by.
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527. Blow them into the Stone Age, son!
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528. Hawk One-Two, Dove One-Three, roger.
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529. They need some napalm
down there in the tree line.
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530. Can you guys push ground
and put it down there?
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531. Right, One-Three.
We're fixing to fuck with them.
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532. - What's the target?
- We're trying to suppress some mortar fire
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533. off the tree line down there.
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534. - Roger. Here we come.
- Good, give it all you got.
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535. Bring in all your ships.
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536. Don't worry. We're gonna have this place
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537. cleaned up and ready for us in a jiffy, son.
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538. Don't you worry.
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539. Big Duke Six, this is Dove One-Three.
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540. The jets are inbound now.
You got about 30 seconds to on-station.
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541. Get your people back and heads down.
This is gonna be a big one.
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542. You smell that?
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543. - Do you smell that?
- What?
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544. Napalm, son.
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545. Nothing else in the world smells like that.
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546. Come on. Move it! Move it! Move it!
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547. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
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548. You know, one time
we had a hill bombed for 12 hours.
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549. And when it was all over, I walked up.
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550. We didn't find one of them,
not one stinking dink body.
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551. But the smell, you know,
that gasoline smell...
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552. The whole hill,
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553. it smelled like
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554. victory.
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555. Someday this war's gonna end.
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556. - Lance.
- Chef, light up, man.
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557. Come on. Let's get high.
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558. - Want to smoke?
- Let's do it, man. Light up.
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559. Someday this war's gonna end.
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560. That would be just fine
with the boys on the boat.
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561. They weren't looking
for anything more than a way home.
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562. Captain?
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563. Trouble is, I'd been back there
and I knew that it just didn't exist anymore.
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564. Buddha time, here.
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565. All right, that's great,
you motherfuckers. Yeah.
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566. If that's how Kilgore fought the war,
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567. I began to wonder
what they really had against Kurtz.
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568. It wasn't just insanity and murder.
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569. There was enough of that
to go around for everyone.
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570. I mean, he never was hurting for pussy.
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571. I'm not here.
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572. I'm walking through the jungle
gathering mangos.
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573. I meet Raquel Welch.
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574. I make a nice mango cream pudding,
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575. kind of spread it around on us.
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576. Hey, Captain, I wanna get some mangoes.
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577. Just don't go out there by yourself.
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578. You don't want to go in there alone.
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579. - Not unless you really know the territory.
- Any poisonous snakes around here?
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580. Fuck it. I'm gonna go eat some mango.
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581. Chef?
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582. - Yes, sir?
- How come they call you that?
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583. - Call me what, sir?
- Chef.
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584. - Because you like mangos and stuff?
- No, sir, I'm a real chef.
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585. - I'm a saucier.
- Saucier?
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586. Yes, sir. See, I come from New Orleans.
I was raised to be a saucier,
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587. a great saucier.
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588. - What's a saucier?
- You specialize in sauces.
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589. Gotta be a mango tree here somewhere.
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590. Then I was supposed to go to Paris,
study at the Escoffier School.
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591. But then I got orders for my physical.
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592. Hell, I joined the Navy.
Heard they had better food.
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593. A cook school, that did it.
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594. - Yeah, how's that?
- You don't want to hear about that.
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595. They lined us up in front of 100 yards
of prime rib.
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596. All of us lined up, looking at it.
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597. Magnificent meat, really.
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598. Beautifully marbled.
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599. Next thing, they're throwing the meat
into these big cauldrons. All of it, boiling it.
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600. I looked inside, man. It was turning gray.
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601. I couldn't fucking believe that one.
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602. That's when I applied for radioman school,
but then they gave me the...
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603. What is it?
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604. Charlie?
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605. It's a tiger!
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606. Tiger, man! It's a tiger!
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607. Battle stations. Lance, up front!
On the.60, Clean!
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608. - Got it, man.
- Holy shit.
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609. - Chef, come on!
- Fucking tiger!
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610. - Captain, come on!
- What's happening?
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611. - Let's go!
- Tiger!
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612. Chief, you were right.
Never get out of the fucking boat.
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613. - Bring that.60 forward!
- Never get out of the boat!
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614. Never get out of the boat!
I gotta remember. Never get out of the boat.
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615. - What happened? How many is it?
- A fucking tiger!
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616. - What?
- A fucking tiger!
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617. - Tiger?
- Yes! I've had it!
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618. I've had the whole
goddamn fucking shit, man!
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619. You can kiss my ass on the county square,
because I'm fucking bugging out.
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620. I didn't come here for this.
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621. I don't fucking need it! I don't want it.
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622. I didn't get out of the goddamn
eighth grade for this kind of shit!
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623. All I wanted to do was fucking cook!
I just wanted to learn to fucking cook, man!
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624. - It's all right. It's all right.
- What happened, bro?
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625. You're all right. You're gonna be all right.
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626. - All right. It's gonna be all right.
- You're all right.
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627. It's gonna be all right.
Never get out of the fucking boat.
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628. Never get out of the fucking boat.
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629. Hi, tiger! Bye, tiger! Goodbye!
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630. Never get out of the boat.
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631. Absolutely goddamn right.
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632. Unless you were going all the way.
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633. Kurtz got off the boat.
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634. He split from the whole fucking program.
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635. How did that happen?
What did he see here that first tour?
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636. Thirty-eight fucking years old.
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637. If you joined the Green Berets, there was
no way you'd ever get above colonel.
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638. Kurtz knew what he was giving up.
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639. And the more I read and began
to understand, the more I admired him.
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640. His family and friends
couldn't understand it,
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641. and they couldn't talk him out of it.
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642. He had to apply three times
and he put up with a ton of shit.
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643. But when he threatened to resign,
they gave it to him.
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644. The next youngest guy in his class
was half his age.
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645. They must have thought he was some
far-out old man,
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646. humping it over that course.
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647. I did it when I was 19
and it damn near wasted me.
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648. A tough motherfucker. He finished it.
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649. He could have gone for General,
but he went for himself instead.
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650. "Dear Eva,
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651. "today was really a new one.
Almost got eaten alive by a fucking tiger.
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652. "Really un-fucking-believable, you know?
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653. "We're taking this guy, Captain Willard,
up the river,
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654. "but he hasn't told us yet
where we're taking him."
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655. "Thought you might have heard by now
from Elwood.
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656. - "I'll be coming home..."
- October 1967,
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657. on special assignment,
Kon Tum Province, II Corps.
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658. Kurtz staged Operation Archangel
with combined local forces,
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659. rated a major success.
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660. He received no official clearance.
He just thought it up and did it.
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661. What balls.
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662. They were gonna nail his ass
to the floorboards for that one.
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663. But after the press got a hold of it,
they promoted him to full colonel instead.
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664. Man, the bullshit piled up so fast
in Vietnam,
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665. you needed wings to stay above it.
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666. This sure enough is a bizarre sight
in the middle of this shit.
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667. Expecting us this time?
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668. Damned if I know.
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669. Hello. Hello...
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670. Jesus.
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671. - Everything goes back up into the truck.
- What?
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672. We gotta get all that stuff up.
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673. Hau Phat. You ever been
up here before, Chef?
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674. - Let's go!
- I bet you we can score up here.
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675. Man, check out the bikes, Lance.
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676. Yamaha, Suzuki. Yeah!
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677. - That's a good one.
- Yeah, sukiyaki.
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678. Yeah, man. This is something.
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679. - Please!
- This must be the guy.
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680. Right over there.
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681. Sergeant. Sergeant?
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682. Three drums of diesel fuel, PBR 5.
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683. Come on, man! Move! We don't have time.
One hour. That's all.
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684. - What do you want?
- Can I get some Panama Red with it?
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685. Panama Red. Yeah, I'll get you Panama Red.
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686. - Sergeant?
- Destination?
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687. - I don't have no destination.
- I can't do a goddamn thing
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688. without a destination.
You got a destination?
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689. - Sergeant.
- I need diesel fuel.
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690. All right. You got a destination?
I need a destination.
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691. I can't do a goddamn thing
without a destination.
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692. Sarge, these guys are with me.
Destination's classified.
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693. I carry priority papers
from COMSEC Intelligence, II Corps.
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694. Okay, right, sir.
Hey, listen, it's a real big night.
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695. Eight bucks for that...
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696. All right. Damn.
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697. - Just give him some fuel.
- You got it.
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698. - Dog starts barking.
- Hey, listen, Captain.
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699. I'm really sorry about tonight.
It's really bad around here.
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700. Just take this over to the man
at the supply desk and you got it.
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701. Hey, listen, would you guys like some seats,
some press box seats for the show?
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702. You want those?
The show, man. The show out here.
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703. - Bunnies.
- Playboy bunnies?
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704. You got it. You gonna be here?
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705. Listen, Captain, on the house.
No hard feelings, huh?
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706. How you doing out there?
I said, "How you doing out there?"
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707. Want to say hello to you from all of us
up here to all of you out there
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708. who worked so goddamn hard
in Operation Brute Force!
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709. Hello, all you paratroopers out there!
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710. And the Marines! And the sailors!
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711. We want to let you know
that we're proud of you!
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712. 'Cause we know how tough
and how hard it's been.
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713. Yeah!
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714. And to prove it, we're gonna give you some
entertainment we know you're gonna like.
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715. Miss August, Miss Sandra Beatty.
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716. Miss May, Miss Terry Teray! Yeah!
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717. And the Playmate of the Year,
Miss Carrie Foster! Yeah!
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718. What's the matter?
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719. They've got them here tonight.
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720. Grease my gun!
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721. I'm ready to... baby!
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722. You're cute. I like you.
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723. I'm here, baby! I'm here!
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724. Oh, my God...
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725. Yeah!
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726. You fucking bitch!
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727. Take it off!
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728. Hey, lover! You want us to come over?
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729. - I sure do!
- Sign my centerfold!
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730. Sign my centerfold!
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731. Come on, baby! Come up here now.
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732. Get your goddamn hands off of my girl!
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733. Start her up.
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734. Come on!
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735. Will you sign these?
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736. Girls! Let's go!
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737. So long!
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738. Charlie didn't get much USO.
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739. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast.
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740. His idea of great R&R
was cold rice and a little rat meat.
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741. He had only two ways home,
death or victory.
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742. No wonder Kurtz put a weed
up Command's ass.
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743. The war was being run
by a bunch of four-star clowns
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744. who were gonna end up
giving the whole circus away.
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745. - believe that.
- Believe what?
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746. Miss December.
I gotta come here and find her here?
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747. - Shit.
- Holy shit.
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748. Chicken time. You ain't shitting, bro.
They're motherfucking...
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749. - Who is that?
- What's going on?
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750. Is that you, Lazzaro?
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751. - Fire on the canopy!
- I got it! I got it! Get out of there!
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752. Get out! I got it! Yeah! I got it!
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753. Lance, get down!
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754. Put that fucker out, man!
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755. What the fuck they think they're doing?
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756. Late summer, autumn 1968.
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757. Kurtz's patrols in the highlands
coming under frequent ambush.
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758. The camp started falling apart.
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759. November.
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760. Kurtz orders assassination of three
Vietnamese men and one woman.
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761. Two of the men were colonels
in the South Vietnamese army.
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762. Enemy activity in his old sector
dropped off to nothing.
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763. Guess he must have hit
the right four people.
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764. He joined the Special Forces.
And after that, his...
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765. The Army tried one last time
to bring him back into the fold.
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766. methods...
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767. And if he'd pulled over,
it all would have been forgotten.
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768. unsound.
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769. - But he kept going...
- Now he's crossed into Cambodia...
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770. and he kept winning it his way...
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771. with this Montagnard army of his...
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772. and they called me in.
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773. man like a god. And follow every order,
however ridiculous.
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774. They lost him. He was gone.
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775. Nothing but rumors
and random intelligence,
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776. mostly from captured VC.
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777. The VC knew his name by now,
and they were scared of him.
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778. He and his men were playing hit and run,
all the way into Cambodia.
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779. I know where I'm going.
I'm going to the White House
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780. to have dinner with
the President of the United States, baby.
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781. That's where I'm going.
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782. Hey, Chef, put the cover on that.
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783. Clean.
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784. - How long has that kid been on this boat?
- Seven months.
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785. He's really specializing in busting my balls.
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786. Very possible, Captain,
he thinks the same of you.
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787. Yeah? What do you think, Chief?
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788. I don't think.
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789. My orders say I'm not supposed to know
where I'm taking this boat, so I don't!
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790. But one look at you,
and I know it's gonna be hot, wherever it is.
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791. We're going upriver
about 75 klicks above the Do Luong bridge.
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792. - That's Cambodia, Captain.
- That's classified.
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793. We're not supposed to be in Cambodia,
but that's where I'm going.
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794. You just get me close to my destination,
and I'll cut you and the crew loose.
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795. All right, Captain.
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796. "Dear Son,
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797. "I'm afraid that both you and your mother
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798. "will have been worried at not hearing
from me during the past weeks.
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799. "But my situation here
has become a difficult one.
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800. "I have been officially accused of murder
by the Army.
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801. "The alleged victims
were four Vietnamese double agents.
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802. "We spent months uncovering them
and accumulating evidence.
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803. "When absolute proof was completed,
we acted, we acted like soldiers.
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804. "The charges are unjustified.
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805. "They are, in fact, and in the circumstances
of this conflict, quite completely insane.
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806. "In a war, there are many moments
for compassion and tender action.
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807. "There are many moments for ruthless
action, what is often called ruthless,
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808. "what may, in many circumstances,
be only clarity.
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809. "Seeing clearly what there is
to be done and doing it."
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810. Medevac, come in.
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811. "... directly, quickly, awake..."
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812. Alpha Tango Tango. Echo Tango Alpha...
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813. "... looking at it."
request dust-off.
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814. Three, maybe four KIAs. Over.
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815. "I will trust you to tell your mother
what you choose about this letter.
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816. "As for the charges against me,
I am unconcerned."
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817. Medevac, come in.
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818. "I am beyond their timid, lying morality.
And so I am beyond caring."
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819. "You have all my faith. Your loving father."
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820. Hey, shut up, fuck-up!
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821. I'm sure sorry about that. If I had known,
I'd have taken you to New Orleans...
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822. introduce you to cooze, Bubba!
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823. Come on down to New Orleans, Bubba,
and I'll get you fixed up, you prick.
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824. Lay off, Chef.
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825. You're the only fucking prick
I see around here.
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826. If I want to play with a prick,
I'll play with my own!
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827. - Lay off, Chef!
- What are you gonna do with it, cherry boy?
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828. - Fucking cherry boy!
- Chef, I said lay off!
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829. Chef, knock it off! Give him a break!
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830. What do you think I said?
And give yourjaws a rest!
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831. And this ain't the Army. You are a sailor!
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832. So get out of that frizzly Army-looking shirt
and stop smoking that dope!
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833. You hear me?
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834. Lance, what's with all the green paint?
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835. - Camouflage.
- How's that?
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836. So they can't see you.
They're everywhere, Chief.
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837. I want you to stay awake up there, man.
You got a job to do.
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838. Sampan off the port bow.
Sampan off the port bow.
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839. Let's take a look. Lance.
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840. Bring them in.
Clean, on the.60. Chef, get a.16.
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841. Clean, get on that.60!
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842. What's up, Chief?
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843. A junk boat, Captain.
We're gonna take a routine check.
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844. Well, let's forget routine now
and let them go.
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845. These boats are running supplies
in this delta, Captain.
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846. I'm gonna take a look.
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847. Chief, my mission's got priority here.
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848. Hell, you wouldn't even be
in this part of the river if it wasn't for me.
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849. Until we reach your destination, Captain,
you're just on for the ride.
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850. - Stand by, Lance.
- Come on, throw the rope, asshole.
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851. All right. Come on. Let's bring it over.
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852. Look in that forward hooch.
Bring the people out of there.
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853. Come on! Hurry up, motherfucker! Move it!
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854. - You two, come on.
- Keep your eyes open, Clean.
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855. I got you, Chief.
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856. It's clear, Chief.
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857. Okay, that's them. That's them.
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858. - They're okay.
- Board and search it.
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859. It's just a fucking boat.
There ain't nothing on it, Chief.
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860. Board it and search it.
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861. Just some baskets and some ducks,
fucking bananas.
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862. - Ain't nothing on it.
- Don't be ashamed, Chef.
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863. What's wrong with you?
Go on and search it.
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864. There's a goat and some fish.
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865. - Chef!
- Bunch of fucking vegetables.
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866. - Get on that boat!
- There's nothing on it, man!
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867. - Get on it!
- All right!
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868. Move it, asshole! God damn it!
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869. Just some pigs. Look, mangos.
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870. - What's in the rice bag?
- Fucking rice.
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871. - Look in there, Chef. Look in it.
- Some fucking fish.
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872. More coconuts. Rice. Here's rice.
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873. What's in that vegetable basket?
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874. Get out of here! Come on!
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875. - Get over there, God damn it.
- Chef, check that vegetable basket.
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876. - All right!
- Shut up, slope.
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877. - There ain't nothing in here.
- What's in the boxes?
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878. Not a fucking thing.
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879. - Look in that tin can.
- Nothing.
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880. - That rusty can.
- Just fucking rice, that's all!
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881. - There ain't nothing on it!
- Check the yellow can.
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882. Check the yellow can.
She was sitting on it. What's in it?
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883. Chef!
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884. Motherfuckers!
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885. - Hold it!
- Come on, let's kill them all.
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886. - Fucking cocksucking mothers!
- Hold it! Hold it!
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887. Let's kill all the assholes!
Shoot the shit out of all of them.
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888. - Chef, hold it!
- Why not? Jesus Christ.
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889. Why the fuck not?
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890. - Clean?
- I'm good.
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891. - You okay, Lance?
- Shit! Fuck! Shit!
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892. - Chef!
- Look what she was hiding, huh?
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893. - You all right?
- See what she was running for?
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894. It's a fucking puppy.
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895. It's a fucking puppy.
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896. Give me that dog!
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897. - No, you're not gonna get it!
- Fucking give it to me!
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898. Give me the fucking dog, asshole!
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899. - Fuck you! Fucking mango, too!
- Chef.
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900. You want that?
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901. Chef, she's moving behind you.
She's alive. Check her out.
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902. - Chef!
- Yes!
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903. She's moving behind you. Check her out!
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904. All right. All right.
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905. Come on, Clean, God damn it.
Give me a hand.
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906. She's not dead, she's wounded.
Clean, give him a hand.
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907. Just take it easy. Take it easy.
Slow down and take it easy.
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908. All right, Chef, just wait a minute.
Wait a minute, Chef.
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909. - Bring her up.
- Is she breathing, Chef?
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910. - She's hurt. She's bleeding.
- Man.
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911. Bring her on board.
We're taking her to an ARVN.
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912. What are you talking about?
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913. We're taking her
to some friendlies, Captain.
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914. She's wounded, she's not dead.
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915. - Get out of there, Chef.
- The book says, Captain...
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916. Fuck you. Fuck him.
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917. I told you not to stop. Now let's go.
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918. It was the way we had over here
of living with ourselves.
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919. We'd cut them in half with a machine gun
and give them a Band-Aid.
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920. It was a lie, and the more I saw of them,
the more I hated lies.
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921. Those boys were never gonna look at me
the same way again.
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922. But I felt like I knew
one or two things about Kurtz
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923. that weren't in the dossier.
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924. Do Luong bridge was the last Army outpost
on the Nung River.
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925. Beyond that, there was only Kurtz.
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926. Lance! Hey, Lance, what do you think?
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927. It's beautiful.
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928. I mean, what's the matter with you?
You're acting kind of weird.
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929. Hey, you know that last tab of acid
I was saving?
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930. - Yeah.
- I dropped it.
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931. You dropped acid? Far out.
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932. - Take me home.
- God damn you!
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933. God damn!
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934. You'll get what you deserve!
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935. Is there a Captain Willard onboard?
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936. - Yeah!
- Captain Willard?
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937. - Yeah, who's that?
- Lieutenant Carlsen, sir.
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938. Get that light off me.
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939. I was sent here from Nha Trang with these
three days ago, sir.
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940. Expected you here a little sooner.
This is mail for the boat.
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941. You don't know
how happy this makes me, sir.
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942. - Why?
- Now I can get out of here,
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943. if I can find a way.
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944. You're in the asshole of the world, Captain!
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945. Captain, where you going?
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946. See if I can find some fuel,
get some information.
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947. - Pick me up on the other side of the bridge.
- Somebody go with him. Chef!
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948. I'll go. I wanna go.
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949. You get your ass in gear.
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950. Come on, man. Listen to the music, man.
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951. - Where can I find the CO?
- You came right to it, son of a bitch!
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952. Lance! Get down here!
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953. - You still got a Commanding Officer here?
- Beverly Hills.
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954. What?
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955. Straight up the road, there's a concrete
fucking bunker called Beverly Hills.
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956. Where the fuck else
do you think it would be?
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957. - God damn it, you stepped in my face!
- We thought you were dead.
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958. Well, you thought wrong, damn it.
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959. I told you to stop fucking with me, didn't I?
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960. You think you're so bad, nigga?
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961. What are you shooting at, soldier?
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962. Gooks.
What the fuck you think I'm shooting at?
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963. I'm sorry, sir.
There are gooks out there by the wire,
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964. but I think I killed them all.
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965. You ain't shot shit, man. Listen!
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966. Shit, he's trying to call his friends, man.
Send up a flare.
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967. You think you're so bad, nigga?
You think you bad, huh?
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968. They're all dead, stupid.
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969. There's one still alive
underneath them bodies.
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970. Who's the Commanding Officer here?
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971. Ain't you?
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972. You think you're so bad, huh?
I got something for your ass now, nigga!
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973. I got something for you now!
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974. He's underneath the bodies, man.
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975. - Go get the roach, man.
- Go get the roach, man.
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976. - Go get the roach, nigga!
- I'm gonna go get the roach.
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977. Roach. Roach. Roach.
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978. Got slopes on the wire, man.
Do you hear them?
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979. - Lance!
- Do you hear them?
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980. Go bust them!
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981. Hey, GI, fuck you!
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982. You hear him out there on the wire, man?
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983. - Yeah.
- I'll kill you, GI!
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984. You need a flare?
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985. No.
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986. He's close, man.
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987. He's real close.
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988. GI, fuck you!
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989. GI, fuck you!
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990. Motherfucker.
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991. Hey, soldier,
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992. do you know who's in command here?
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993. Yeah.
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994. Shit!
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995. Yo, Chief, man,
two guys just got blown off that bridge.
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996. You hang on, man. You're gonna be okay.
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997. - What's that?
- Mail, man.
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998. Later on the mail! Watch them trees.
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999. There's no diesel fuel,
but I picked up some ammo.
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1000. Let's move out.
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1001. - Did you find the CO, Captain?
- There's no fucking CO here.
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1002. - Let's just get going.
- Which way, Captain?
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1003. You know which way, Chief.
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1004. You're on your own, Captain.
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1005. Do you wanna go on?
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1006. Like this bridge, we build it every night,
Charlie blows it right back up again
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1007. just so the generals
can say the road's open.
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1008. Think about it.
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1009. - Who cares?
- Just get us upriver!
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1010. Chef, on the bow.
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1011. - Stand by, Clean.
- Let's go.
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1012. Whose package is that?
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1013. - Shit, you got another one, Clean.
- No shit. Wait a minute, is that it?
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1014. - That's it for you.
- Lance!
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1015. Mr. L.B. Johnson, there you go.
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1016. Far out, man. All right.
I've been waiting for this one.
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1017. I got another one, got a box from Eva.
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1018. "Lance, I'm fine. I'm fine, Lance.
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1019. "Sue and I went tripping to Disneyland.
Sue skinned her knee."
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1020. - Man, I want to get back to Antoine's.
- "Of course I remember the time we went..."
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1021. How could I fucking forget, man? Beautiful.
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1022. "There could never be a place
like Disneyland, or could there?
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1023. "Let me know."
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1024. Jim, it's here. It really is here.
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1025. "There has been a new development
regarding your mission
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1026. "which we must now communicate to you.
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1027. "Months ago,
a man was ordered on a mission
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1028. "which was identical to yours.
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1029. "We have reason to believe
that he is now operating with Colonel Kurtz.
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1030. "Saigon was carrying him MIA
for his family's sake.
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1031. "They assumed he was dead.
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1032. "Then they intercepted a letter
he tried to send to his wife."
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1033. Captain Richard Colby,
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1034. he was with Kurtz.
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1035. Disneyland.
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1036. Fuck, man, this is better than Disneyland.
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1037. "Charles Miller Manson
ordered the slaughter
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1038. "of all in the home anyway
as a symbol of protest."
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1039. That's really weird, ain't it?
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1040. - Purple haze, look.
- Hey, Lance, put away that smoke.
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1041. - I got a tape from my mom.
- Chief, rainbow reality, man.
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1042. Hey, Chief, get a good whiff.
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1043. Eva can't picture me in Vietnam.
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1044. She pictures me at home
having a beer and watching TV.
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1045. Hey, Lance, man.
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1046. Hot potato! Hot potato!
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1047. I'm so glad you decided to join...
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1048. Eva's not sure if she can
have a relationship with me, you know?
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1049. Here I am, 13,000 fucking miles away,
trying to keep a relationship open, my ass.
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1050. That's much more than I can say
for some of your friends.
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1051. If this tape is any good,
I will have Dad and the family
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1052. - send you a tape of their own...
- Hey, Lance.
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1053. There! Over there!
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1054. Motherfuckers!
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1055. There! Over there!
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1056. Lance! Chef!
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1057. - Chef, Chef, check out Clean!
- Captain, he's hit, he's hit! Clean's hit!
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1058. - Lance!
- Where'd the dog go?
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1059. Lance. Lance, check out Clean!
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1060. Where's the dog?
We got to go back to get the dog!
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1061. - Hey, Clean.
- It's always been nice to have...
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1062. Hey, Bubba!
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1063. Bubba, you can't die, you fucker!
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1064. - And so, I'm hoping...
- Bubba!
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1065. that pretty soon,
not too soon, but pretty soon,
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1066. I'll have a lot of grandchildren
to love and spoil,
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1067. and then when your wife get them back,
she'll be mad with me.
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1068. Even Aunt Jessie and Mama will come
to celebrate your coming home.
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1069. Granny and Dad
are trying to get enough money
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1070. to get you a car.
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1071. But don't tell her, because that's our secret.
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1072. Anyhow, do the right thing,
stay out of the way of the bullets,
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1073. and bring your heinie home
all in one piece
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1074. because we love you very much.
Love, Mama.
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1075. Oh, man. You're so young.
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1076. Clean.
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1077. Can't see nothing. We're stopping.
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1078. You're not authorized
to stop this boat, Chief.
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1079. I said I can't see a thing, Captain.
I'm stopping this boat.
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1080. I ain't risking no more lives.
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1081. I'm in command here, God damn it.
You'll do what I say.
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1082. You see anything, Chef?
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1083. Why don't they fucking attack, man?
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1084. Watch it over here, Chief.
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1085. Got a stump.
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1086. Lance, on the.50s.
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1087. He was close.
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1088. He was real close.
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1089. I couldn't see him yet, but I could feel him,
as if the boat were being sucked upriver
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1090. and the water was flowing back
into the jungle.
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1091. Whatever was going to happen,
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1092. it wasn't gonna be
the way they called it back in Nha Trang.
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1093. Arrows!
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1094. Fire!
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1095. Chef, open up! Fire!
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1096. Lance, fire!
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1097. Chef! Chef, it's okay. Quit firing.
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1098. They're just little toy arrows.
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1099. Cut it out! Quiet!
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1100. Chief, tell them to hold their fire!
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1101. They're just little sticks.
They're just trying to scare us.
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1102. Quiet!
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1103. You got us in this mess,
and now you can't get us out
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1104. because you don't know
where the hell you're going, do you?
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1105. Do you?
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1106. You son of a bitch! You bastard!
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1107. - Lance, get the wheel!
- Fire!
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1108. You savages!
Come and get it, you son of a bitches!
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1109. A spear.
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1110. My mission is to make it up into Cambodia.
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1111. There's a Green Beret colonel up there
who's gone insane
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1112. and I'm supposed to kill him.
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1113. That's fucking typical! Shit!
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1114. Fucking Vietnam mission!
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1115. I'm short and we gotta go up there
so you can kill one of our own guys?
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1116. That's fucking great!
That's just fucking great, man.
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1117. Shit! That's fucking crazy.
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1118. I mean, I thought
you were going in to blow up a bridge
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1119. or some fucking railroad tracks
or something.
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1120. - Sorry.
- No, no, wait, wait.
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1121. We'll go together on the boat.
We'll go with you.
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1122. We'll go up there, but on the boat. Okay?
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1123. Part of me was afraid of what I would find
and what I would do when I got there.
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1124. I knew the risks, or imagined I knew.
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1125. But the thing I felt the most,
much stronger than fear,
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1126. was the desire to confront him.
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1127. Just keep moving.
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1128. Lance, keep your hands
away from the guns.
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1129. It's all right! It's all right!
It's all been approved!
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1130. I ain't coming in there!
Them bastards attacked us!
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1131. Zap them with your siren, man.
Zap them with your siren.
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1132. There's mines over there
and mines over there, too.
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1133. And watch out. Those goddamn monkeys
bite you, I'll tell you.
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1134. That's a pretty one.
Move it right in toward me.
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1135. I'm an American. Yeah.
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1136. An American civilian. Hi, Yanks.
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1137. Hi, American.
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1138. American civilian. It's all right.
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1139. And you got the cigarettes.
And that's what I've been dreaming about.
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1140. Chef.
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1141. - Who are you?
- Who are you?
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1142. I'm a photojournalist.
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1143. I've covered the war since '64.
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1144. I've been in Laos, Cambodia and Nam.
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1145. I'll tell you one thing,
this boat is a mess, man.
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1146. Who are all these people?
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1147. Yeah, they think you've come
to take him away,
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1148. - and I hope that isn't true.
- Take who away?
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1149. Him! Colonel Kurtz.
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1150. These are all his children, man,
as far as you can see.
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1151. Hell, man, out here, we're all his children.
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1152. Could we talk to Colonel Kurtz?
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1153. Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel.
Well, you listen to him.
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1154. The man's enlarged my mind.
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1155. He's a poet warrior in the classic sense.
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1156. Sometimes you'll say hello to him, right,
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1157. and he'll just walk right by you
and he won't even notice you.
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1158. And then suddenly he'll grab you,
he'll throw you in a corner and he'll say,
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1159. "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word
in 'life'? If you can keep your head
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1160. "when all about you are losing theirs
and blaming it on you,
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1161. "if you can trust yourself
when all men doubt you..."
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1162. I'm a little man. I'm a little man.
He's a great man.
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1163. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
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1164. Stay with the boat.
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1165. Don't go without me, okay?
I wanna get a picture.
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1166. He can be terrible, he can be mean,
and he can be right.
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1167. He's fighting the war. He's a great man.
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1168. I wish I had words, you know?
I wish I had words.
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1169. I can tell you something,
like, the other day he wanted to kill me.
Copy !req
1170. - Something like that.
- Why'd he want to kill you?
Copy !req
1171. Because I took his picture.
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1172. He said, "If you take my picture again,
Copy !req
1173. "I'm gonna kill you," and he meant it.
Copy !req
1174. So you just lay cool.
Play it cool, laid back. Dig it.
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1175. He gets friendly again. He really does.
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1176. But you don't judge the Colonel.
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1177. You don't judge the Colonel
like an ordinary man.
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1178. Okay, watch it now. These are Americans.
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1179. Americans!
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1180. You can feel the vibe of this place.
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1181. Let me take your picture.
Could you hold... Hello? Hello?
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1182. Could you hold up a minute?
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1183. Colby.
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1184. The heads.
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1185. You're looking at the heads.
Sometimes he goes too far.
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1186. He's the first one to admit it.
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1187. - He's gone crazy.
- Wrong, wrong!
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1188. If you could have heard the man
just two days ago.
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1189. If you could have heard him then, God...
You're gonna call him crazy?
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1190. Fucking A.
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1191. - I just wanna talk to him.
- Well, man, he's gone away.
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1192. He's gone away. He disappeared
out in the jungle with his people.
Copy !req
1193. I'll wait for him.
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1194. He feels comfortable with his people.
He forgets himself with his people.
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1195. - He forgets himself.
- Captain?
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1196. - Maybe we should wait back at the boat.
- Okay, Chef.
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1197. - We'll go back to the boat for a while.
- Yeah, stay with Lance.
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1198. This Colonel guy, he's wacko, man.
He's worse than crazy. He's evil!
Copy !req
1199. That's what the man's got set up here!
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1200. Man, it's fucking Pagan idolatry.
Look around you!
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1201. Shit, he's loco.
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1202. - Then you'll help me?
- Help you? Fucking A, I'll help you.
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1203. I'll do anything to get out of this joint.
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1204. Good boy.
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1205. We could blow all them assholes away.
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1206. They're so fucking spaced out,
they wouldn't even know it.
Copy !req
1207. I ain't afraid of all them fucking skulls
and altars and shit.
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1208. I used to think if I died in an evil place,
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1209. then my soul wouldn't be able
to make it to heaven.
Copy !req
1210. But now, fuck.
Copy !req
1211. I don't care where it goes,
as long as it ain't here.
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1212. So what do you wanna do? I'll kill the fuck.
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1213. - No, no.
- Get out of here.
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1214. I'm gonna need you to wait here, Chef.
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1215. I'll go up with Lance and scrounge around,
check the place out,
Copy !req
1216. see if I can find the Colonel, okay?
Copy !req
1217. - What do you want me to do?
- Damn it.
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1218. Here, you take the radio,
and if I don't get back by 2200 hours,
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1219. you call in the air strike.
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1220. Air strike?
Copy !req
1221. The code is "Almighty,"
coordinates 0-9-2-6-4-7-1-2.
Copy !req
1222. It's all in there.
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1223. 0-9-2-6-4-7-1-2.
Copy !req
1224. Everything I saw told me that Kurtz
had gone insane.
Copy !req
1225. The place was full of bodies.
North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, Cambodians.
Copy !req
1226. If I was still alive,
it was because he wanted me that way.
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1227. It smelled like slow death in there.
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1228. Malaria, nightmares.
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1229. This was the end of the river, all right.
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1230. Where are you from, Willard?
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1231. I'm from Ohio, sir.
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1232. - Were you born there?
- Yes, sir.
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1233. - Whereabouts?
- Toledo, sir.
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1234. How far are you from the river?
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1235. The Ohio River, sir?
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1236. About 200 miles.
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1237. I went down that river once
when I was a kid.
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1238. There's a place in the river,
I can't remember.
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1239. It must've been a gardenia plantation
or a flower plantation at one time.
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1240. It's all wild and overgrown now,
Copy !req
1241. but for about five miles, you'd think that
heaven just fell on the Earth,
Copy !req
1242. in the form of gardenias.
Copy !req
1243. Have you ever considered
any real freedoms?
Copy !req
1244. Freedoms from the opinion of others?
Copy !req
1245. Even the opinions of yourself?
Copy !req
1246. Did they say why, Willard?
Copy !req
1247. Why they wanted
to terminate my command?
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1248. I was sent on a classified mission, sir.
Copy !req
1249. No longer classified, is it?
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1250. What did they tell you?
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1251. They told me that you had gone
totally insane,
Copy !req
1252. and that your methods were unsound.
Copy !req
1253. Are my methods unsound?
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1254. I don't see any method at all, sir.
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1255. I expected someone like you.
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1256. What did you expect?
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1257. Are you an assassin?
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1258. I'm a soldier.
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1259. You're neither.
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1260. You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks
Copy !req
1261. to collect a bill.
Copy !req
1262. Why? Why would a nice guy like you
wanna kill a genius?
Copy !req
1263. Going down pretty good, huh?
Copy !req
1264. Why?
Copy !req
1265. You know?
Copy !req
1266. Do you know that the man,
Copy !req
1267. the man really likes you?
Copy !req
1268. He likes you. He really likes you,
but he's got something in mind for you.
Copy !req
1269. Aren't you curious about that?
Copy !req
1270. I'm curious. I'm very curious.
Are you curious?
Copy !req
1271. There's something
happening out here, man.
Copy !req
1272. You know something, man?
I know something that you don't know.
Copy !req
1273. That's right, jack.
Copy !req
1274. The man is clear in his mind,
but his soul is mad.
Copy !req
1275. Yeah.
Copy !req
1276. He's dying, I think.
He hates all this. He hates it.
Copy !req
1277. But the man's...
Copy !req
1278. He reads poetry out loud, all right?
Copy !req
1279. And a voice, a voice...
Copy !req
1280. He likes you 'cause you're still alive.
He's got plans for you.
Copy !req
1281. No, no, I'm not gonna help you.
You're gonna help him, man.
Copy !req
1282. You're gonna help him.
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1283. What are they gonna say, man,
when he's gone?
Copy !req
1284. 'Cause he dies when it dies, man.
When it dies, he dies.
Copy !req
1285. What are they gonna say about him?
Copy !req
1286. What are they gonna say?
"He was a kind man. He was a wise man.
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1287. "He had plans. He had wisdom."
Bullshit, man!
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1288. Am I gonna be the one that's gonna
set them straight? Look at me. Wrong!
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1289. You.
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1290. Almost eight hours.
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1291. God. I'm asleep.
Copy !req
1292. I'm asleep and dreaming
I'm on this shitty boat.
Copy !req
1293. Fuck.
Copy !req
1294. Has it been eight hours?
Copy !req
1295. Hello, Almighty, Almighty,
this is PBR Street Gang.
Copy !req
1296. Radio check. Over.
Copy !req
1297. PBR Street Gang,
this is Almighty standing by. Over.
Copy !req
1298. What the hell! Jesus!
Copy !req
1299. Christ!
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1300. "We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
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1301. "Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Copy !req
1302. "Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
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1303. "Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Copy !req
1304. - "Or rats' feet over broken glass..."
- He's out there.
Copy !req
1305. "In our dry cellar..."
Copy !req
1306. - He's really out there.
- "Shape without form, shade without color,
Copy !req
1307. "Paralyzed force, gesture without motion..."
Copy !req
1308. Do you know what the man's saying?
Copy !req
1309. - Do you?
- "Those who have crossed..."
Copy !req
1310. This is dialectics. It's very simple dialectics.
One through nine,
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1311. no "maybes," no "supposes," no fractions.
You can't travel in space.
Copy !req
1312. You can't go out into space, you know,
without like... With fractions.
Copy !req
1313. What are you gonna land on?
One-quarter? Three-eighths?
Copy !req
1314. What are you gonna do when you go
from here to Venus or something?
Copy !req
1315. That's dialectic physics, okay?
Copy !req
1316. Dialectic logic is,
"There's only love and hate."
Copy !req
1317. You either love somebody
or you hate them.
Copy !req
1318. Mutt!
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1319. You mutt.
Copy !req
1320. This is the way the fucking world ends.
Look at this fucking shit we're in, man!
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1321. "Not with a bang, a whimper."
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1322. And with a whimper,
I'm fucking splitting, jack.
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1323. On the river, I thought
that the minute I looked at him,
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1324. I'd know what to do.
Copy !req
1325. But it didn't happen. I was in there
with him for days, not under guard.
Copy !req
1326. I was free.
But he knew I wasn't going anywhere.
Copy !req
1327. He knew more
about what I was going to do than I did.
Copy !req
1328. If the generals back in Nha Trang
could see what I saw,
Copy !req
1329. would they still want me to kill him?
Copy !req
1330. More than ever, probably.
Copy !req
1331. And what would his people
back home want,
Copy !req
1332. if they ever learned
just how far from them he'd really gone?
Copy !req
1333. He broke from them,
and then he broke from himself.
Copy !req
1334. I'd never seen a man so broken up
and ripped apart.
Copy !req
1335. I've seen the horrors,
horrors that you've seen.
Copy !req
1336. But you have no right to call me a murderer.
You have a right to kill me.
Copy !req
1337. You have a right to do that.
But you have no right to judge me.
Copy !req
1338. It's impossible for words to describe
Copy !req
1339. what is necessary to those
Copy !req
1340. who do not know what horror means.
Copy !req
1341. Horror.
Copy !req
1342. Horror has a face.
Copy !req
1343. And you must make a friend of horror.
Copy !req
1344. Horror and moral terror are your friends.
Copy !req
1345. If they are not,
then they are enemies to be feared.
Copy !req
1346. They are truly enemies.
Copy !req
1347. I remember when I was with Special Forces.
Copy !req
1348. It seems a thousand centuries ago.
Copy !req
1349. We went into a camp
to inoculate some children.
Copy !req
1350. We'd left the camp after we had
inoculated the children for polio.
Copy !req
1351. And this old man came running after us,
and he was crying, he couldn't see.
Copy !req
1352. We went back there
Copy !req
1353. and they had come
and hacked off every inoculated arm.
Copy !req
1354. There they were, in a pile.
A pile of little arms.
Copy !req
1355. And I remember,
Copy !req
1356. I cried. I wept like
Copy !req
1357. some grandmother.
Copy !req
1358. I wanted to tear my teeth out.
I didn't know what I wanted to do.
Copy !req
1359. And I want to remember it.
I never want to forget it.
Copy !req
1360. I never want to forget.
Copy !req
1361. And then I realized, like I was shot,
Copy !req
1362. like I was shot with a diamond,
Copy !req
1363. a diamond bullet
right through my forehead.
Copy !req
1364. And I thought,
"My God, the genius of that. The genius."
Copy !req
1365. The will to do that,
Copy !req
1366. perfect, genuine, complete,
crystalline, pure.
Copy !req
1367. And then I realized
Copy !req
1368. they were stronger than me
because they could stand it.
Copy !req
1369. These were not monsters.
These were men, trained cadres.
Copy !req
1370. These men who fought with their hearts,
who have families, who have children,
Copy !req
1371. who are filled with love,
but they have the strength,
Copy !req
1372. the strength to do that.
Copy !req
1373. If I had 10 divisions of those men,
Copy !req
1374. then our troubles here
would be over very quickly.
Copy !req
1375. You have to have men who are moral,
Copy !req
1376. and at the same time, who are able
Copy !req
1377. to utilize their primordial instincts to kill
Copy !req
1378. without feeling, without passion,
without judgment. Without judgment.
Copy !req
1379. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
Copy !req
1380. I worry that my son
might not understand what I've tried to be.
Copy !req
1381. And if I were to be killed, Willard,
Copy !req
1382. I would want someone to go to my home
and tell my son everything.
Copy !req
1383. Everything I did. Everything you saw.
Copy !req
1384. Because there's nothing that I detest more
than the stench of lies.
Copy !req
1385. And if you understand me, Willard,
you will do this for me.
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1386. PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty. Over.
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1387. PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty.
Standing by. Over.
Copy !req
1388. PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty.
Standing by. How do you copy?
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1389. They were gonna make me a Major for this,
Copy !req
1390. and I wasn't even
in their fucking Army anymore.
Copy !req
1391. Everybody wanted me to do it,
him most of all.
Copy !req
1392. I felt like he was up there,
waiting for me to take the pain away.
Copy !req
1393. He just wanted to go out like a soldier.
Standing up.
Copy !req
1394. Not like some poor, wasted,
rag-assed renegade.
Copy !req
1395. Even the jungle wanted him dead,
Copy !req
1396. and that's who he really
took his orders from anyway.
Copy !req
1397. "We train young men to drop fire on people,
but their commanders
Copy !req
1398. "won't allow them to write 'Fuck'
on their airplanes
Copy !req
1399. "because it's obscene!"
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1400. The horror.
Copy !req
1401. The horror.
Copy !req
1402. Calling PBR Street Gang.
PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty.
Copy !req
1403. Do you read me? Over.
Copy !req
1404. PBR Street Gang.
Copy !req
1405. PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty...
Copy !req
1406. The horror.
Copy !req
1407. The horror.
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