"[♪♪♪]" "[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]" "Come on you guys, come on." "Come on, get with the program." "Hut, hut, hut!" "This better be good, Baker." "What you got us meeting a chopper for?" "Come on, hurry, we'll miss it." "We're coming!" "All right now, Baker, what is the big deal here?" "You'll see." "It's a real VIP, I promise." "Who is?" "It's a big surprise." "You'll see when he gets here." "You guys, come on, come on, come on." "I want you guys lined up right here." "All right." "Come on, come on, come on." "I want you guys looking strak too, okay?" "What's he doing?" "Damn, you guys ought to see yourselves, man." "You look disgusting, okay?" "Would you show a little bit of pride?" "Am I hearing what I'm hearing?" "I know one thing-- this better be at least a two-star general." "You got that harmonica?" "What?" "Your harmonica." "Yeah, yeah." "Come on, get it out." "Do you know "Hail to the Chief"?" "Yeah, what they play for the president?" "Exactly." "Let's hear you do it." "Come on, come on." "I mean you've got to hum a few bars." "[HUMS "HAIL TO THE CHIEF"]" "[PLAYS HARMONICA OFF-KEY]" "Geez, that stinks." "[OTHERS LAUGH]" "Oh, well excuse me, Baker." "Why don't I just go on back to my tent and get 76 trombones for you?" "No, no." "Come on." "I really want this to be good, okay?" "Can you try it again?" "Come on, try it again." "[HUMS]" "[CONTINUES TO PLAY OFF-KEY]" "[HELICOPTER APPROACHING]" "That'll have to do." "You think he knows the president?" "You kidding?" "The only thing he knows is when the surf's up." "What if we had a red carpet to roll out?" "Detail, atten-hut." "Come on, music, music" "Hit it!" "Hit the music." "[PLAYS "HAIL TO THE CHIEF" ON THE HARMONICA]" "Cowabunga!" "I'm stoked!" "Man, give me a bonk!" "Check it out, man." "I got you something." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Oh, man." "I didn't get you anything." "I'm sorry." "Oh, man, I'm seeing double." "Man, that's exactly two Bakers more than this world needs." "Oh!" "A new skateboard, man." "That's hot." "You guys, look, it's our birthday!" "Thanks, man." "Let's go." "[CHEERING]" "Come on, one more time-- one more time!" "[SURF MUSIC PLAYING, CHORUS HARMONIZING]" "[CHEERING]" "Oh, yeah." "Oh, yeah, yeah." "Whoo-hoo!" "California, lieutenant." "Yeah, I'm getting outta here before I catch it." "Hang 10, sergeant." "So are you guys exactly the same or what?" "To tell you the truth, man, we are exactly opposite, man." "It's true." "You know how I eat my health food and all that stuff?" "Yeah." "This guy eats Twinkies and Ding Dongs." "You don't even drink, though." "Me, God, I love to drink and party with sick, twisted young women." "[ALL LAUGH]" "See, I'm a lot more experienced than him and much more sophisticated." "I'm oldest by 18 minutes." "Yeah, but I was bigger by three ounces." "Was, Scott, was three ounces bigger." "I think I got the edge on you now." "You don't." "No way." "I got 10 pounds on you at least." "I can just tell you've been sloughing off on your workout." "I have been working out religiously, okay?" "Even in the field, I've been doing my isometrics." "Okay, you don't believe me?" "I'll show you." "Percell, Taylor, come here." "[GRUNTING]" "I told you I was stronger than you." "Stronger smelling, maybe." "[GRUNTING]" "There's only one way to settle this." "That table right over there?" "You got it." "Tell you what-- I've got five bucks on the brother on the right." "You're on, you're on." "I'll take the other guy." "Which one are you?" "Carl, man." "Okay, Carl." "Percell, man, you're wasting your money." "I will eat this guy for breakfast." "Are you ready?" "TAYLOR:" "Come on!" "Come on, Carl." "Come on, Baker." "Hey, there's something behind your back, Scott." "Shut up." "I'm not falling for that." "No, seriously, that's a lizard." "Come on, Carl." "Come on, Baker." "No, really, I'm not joking-- it's a lizard." "It's a lizard crawling right behind you, Scott." "I swear, man." "A lizard?" "Yeah, a lizard." "Don't fall for it, Baker." "God, I hate when you do that, man!" "BAKER:" "Come on, man, come on." "Come on, Carl." "I'll kill you, man." "Come on, man." "[LAUGHING]" "Oh, my God." "[POTS RATTLING]" "Hey, maybe they'll kill each other." "Yeah, that's the way to settle this." "Hey, knock it off!" "What's going on?" "The battling Baker brothers." "I think this is how they show they like each other." "[STRUGGLING AND PUNCHING]" "Hey, Baker-- where's your brother?" "I don't know." "He took off a while ago." "What you got there?" "A big surprise." "Hey, Taylor." "Yo?" "You seen Baker's brother, man?" "Yeah, I just saw" "I thought I saw Baker over at the motor pool." "No, I'm Baker, man." "You must have seen my brother." "You sure?" "Of course I'm sure." "You think I don't know who I am?" "Sometimes I wonder." "No, I'm me." "The handsome one." "What's my brother doing over at the motor pool?" "He said the captain wanted him to drive into Kiha and pick up something for him." "The sergeant must have thought it was you." "He let him split with a deuce and a half." "Why did he do that?" "Maybe we ought to ask him." "[BRAKES SCREECH]" "What's going on, man?" "You stole this truck, huh?" "Hey, relax, relax." "No harm, no foul." "No, dude, stealing a truck's like" "Relax, okay, relax." "I'll explain it." "I'll explain it." "But, dude, you just can't" "Listen, listen, you're in with a pretty good bunch of guys here, right?" "Yeah, so?" "And they know it's our birthday, right?" "And because they're such good guys, they're probably going to throw a candle on a c-rat pound cake and call that a birthday party." "Yeah, here it is." "That's really nice, you guys, and speaking for my brother and I, we're both really touched... but a c-rat pound cake, that just ain't the essential items." "And what exactly are the essential items?" "Come on back here." "This here is your essential items-- direct from Mama-san's in fabulous Kiha, the Baker brothers' gift to the third squad." "Party time." "Oh!" "Hi, GIs." "What's your name?" "God, what are you, crazy, man?" "Do you know how much trouble we could get in for this?" "Yeah!" "Get out of there." "Ow!" "Get myself some party time!" "Man, I don't believe it." "Hey, hey, what's that word that Baker says?" "Cowabunga." "Yeah, cowabunga, cowabunga..." "God bless this guy." "I love this guy." "I love this guy as much as I used to hate you." "You know, this is really, really against the rules." "It sure is." "Women at a firebase-- it's probably never been done before." "It's against all Army regulations." "Don't you love it?" "[SIGHS]" "SOLDIER:" "Number one GI, here." "WOMAN:" "Are you ready?" "[PARTY MUSIC PLAYING]" "Hey, don't be selfish." "Hey, Baker, why ain't you dancing?" "Oh, I don't know how to dance." "[LAUGHS]" "Aah!" "So where you come from anyway?" "The same place as my brother." "I just got a head start." "No, man, I'm talking about where you come from now, before you got here." "Headquarters in Kwinyan." "Rough, huh?" "In the rear with the gear." "That's how I got to know all the right people in supply." "Get you guys anything you want-- booze, cigarettes..." "candy bars." "Here you go." "I know you like chocolate, Taylor." "Thought I didn't?" "And girls." "All right." "Hey, let's hear it." "Three cheers for brother Carl" "All right, all right." "Quiet!" "[WHISPERS] Three cheers for brother Carl." "Hip, hip..." "ALL:" "Hip, hip, hooray!" "Hip, hip, hooray!" "Hip, hip, hooray!" "[LAUGHING]" "You know what?" "After tonight, you'll always be a brother to me." "Thanks a lot, brother." "Gimme some skin." "Yeah!" "Hey, my man." "I don't understand." "How does a cool guy like you have such a doofus brother like Baker?" "Freak of Mother Nature, you know?" "Brother's a health food freak." "Me, I'm just a freak." "Hey Carl, you know what?" "It's a shame I didn't know you back in Detroit." "Here's to the freak!" "[LAUGHING]" "Give me that." "[MEN LAUGHING AND TALKING INDISTINCTLY]" "MAN 1:" "Back off!" "MAN 2:" "I ain't been dancing in a while." "Watch your feet." "[STRIKES MATCH]" "[COUGHS]" "I'm not used to tobacco." "Those lungs are virgins." "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "You know, you really shouldn't be out here." "Somebody might see you, you know that?" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "Are you okay?" "I mean, I know it's none of my business, but are you all right?" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "Oh, no English, huh?" "Why are you crying?" "Why the tears?" "Oh, you don't like the party, huh?" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "Yeah, hey, I'm no good at parties myself." "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "You know, I got this brother, Carl, and Carl loves parties, and that's why the guys, they naturally like him better than me." "He's just more..." "Never mind." "Did you know, you're..." "you're beautiful?" "I mean you are really, really pretty..." "The prettiest Vietnamese I've ever seen." "You, you understand?" "You, pretty face." "[LAUGHS]" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE] Dinky dau..." "Dinky dau war, if you ask me." "300 P?" "Girl, you sure you ain't from Detroit?" "I tell you what-- you give me 200 P, and then I give you 200 P." "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea, huh?" "Hey, it looks like you two need a freshen-up." "All right, see?" "Number one GI." "Number one GI, yeah." "Oh, I'll tell you what." "Let's just get married." "Yeah, that's a better idea, yeah." "Oh, a dog?" "[CRYING]" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "I'm..." "I'm" " I'm sorry," "I don't understand what you mean." "I mean, I would like to help you, if I could." "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "You mean your dog died?" "Mama-san..." "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "Chop, chop..." "Mama-san..." "Mama-san ate your dog?" "Mama-san killed and ate your dog?" "Oh, man, that's terrible." "I mean, I know how you must feel." "I used to have this pet raccoon, and Carl thought it was just a dumb rodent, but I loved that animal more than anything." "And then the dogs ate him." "Hey, it takes a really sensitive person to love an animal." "You're beautiful." "You are very, very beautiful." "You understand me?" "God, I wish you could understand me..." "Because, I mean..." "I'd really like to kiss you." "[SIGHS]" "God, I really do wish you could understand me..." "Because as crazy as this may sound," "I think I could really fall for you." "What do you think of that, huh?" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "Tape recorder." "["SOLDIER BOY" PLAYING FROM CASSETTE PLAYER]" "♪ Soldier boy ♪" "♪ Oh, my little soldier boy ♪" "♪ I'll be true to you ♪" "Oh man, I'm stoked." "♪ You were my first love ♪" "♪ And you'll be my last love ♪" "♪ I will never make you blue ♪" "♪ I'll be true to you ♪" "[MUSIC SLOWING DOWN]" "♪ In this whole wo... ♪" "♪ You can have but one... ♪" "♪ Girl... ♪" "♪ Let me be the one... ♪" "[MUSIC STOPS]" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE] ...batteries..." "No, um, I'm gonna go get some more batteries, okay?" "You just sit down." "Stay here, please, okay?" "I'll be right back." "Stay though, please, okay?" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "I'll be right back, all right?" "You know what?" "I think this may be love." "Hey, Carl." "Hey, join our party, huh?" "Yeah." "Party hardy, bro." "Oh, good golly, Miss Molly." "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "Oh yeah, I got just what you want." "Baker, what are you doing?" "I gotta get in my box." "There we go." "Hey, hey, hey, those are my batteries." "Oh, you gotta let me use them, all right?" "Why?" "I" " I think I'm in love, man." "I met this girl out there, dude, and, well, thanks, man." "[MUFFLED RESPONSE] Okay, Bak" " Ooh!" "Honey...where'd you go?" "Hello?" "Honey?" "[MURMURING AND KISSING]" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "Oh, hi." "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "I'm gonna kill you, man." "[STRUGGLING]" "Hey, hey, knock it off!" "Ten-hut!" "[PARTY MUSIC STOPS]" "What the hell is going on in here?" "How did these women get in here?" "Well, just" "This is a U.S. Military installation, not a cathouse." "Now, we're supposed to be fighting a war here." "How you gonna do that with your pants down?" "All right, I want a thousand sandbags by noon." "A thousand?" "Oh, man." "Oh, you've got to be kidding me." "Come on, fellows." "All right." "Fecal matter shall be removed a minimum of 50 feet from the waste station, whereupon it will be doused with five gallons of gasoline to get it started and five gallons of diesel fuel to keep it going." "Just add oregano, stir, and serve." "Yes, sarge." "Oh, Baker-- the next time you have yourself a party, you be sure to invite your platoon sergeant." "[COUGHS]" "[SCREAMS]" "Hey, I'm sorry about last night." "I mean, the girl and all." "I was just trying to have a good time." "I guess I got a little carried away, huh?" "Hey, aren't you going to talk to me?" "[HELICOPTER APPROACHES]" "That's my ride, Scott, I've got to go." "I don't want to leave you like this, man." "I said I was sorry." "What can I say, okay?" "Do you want to hit me?" "If it's going to make you feel better, go ahead and hit me, all right?" "Scott, you're my brother." "I don't have a brother." "Not anymore, I don't." "[WOMENS' VOICES CALLING]" "[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "SOLDIER:" "You gonna leave me like this?" "Redbird 9-1, Redbird 9-1, say your location, over." "Redbird 9-1, this is Bravo 6-1-9er, over." "Redbird 9-1, Redbird 9-1, say your location, over." "I think they've gone down." "[♪♪♪]" "We've got smoke, 1:00." "Look at Baker." "Can you imagine what it's like to lose your own brother?" "Yeah, I know he feels terrible." "All right Baker, we've got them all loaded up now, son." "It's time to go." "That wasn't my brother." "Oh, come on, Baker, now, how can you tell that?" "I mean, those guys were all burnt to a crisp." "Four people on the chopper and only three bodies." "I gotta stay here and look a while." "No." "Now, Baker, now, you listen to me now." "It's getting dark, we gotta get on out of here." "Come on, buddy." "You don't understand, okay?" "I can't just abandon him." "Baker, you get on the chopper." "That's a direct order." "Now, come on." "Baker!" "Hey!" "Baker!" "Put it down!" "Put it down!" "I've got to circle back!" "[MEN SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "Stop!" "[SPEAKS VIETNAMESE]" "Do you speak any English?" "VC, you see VC?" "[SPEAKS VIETNAMESE]" "Look, Jack, I ain't messing around." "Talk!" "You seen a big GI American, look like me?" "[SPEAKS VIETNAMESE]" "You have seen him?" "You've seen him?" "Where?" "Three VC." "One GI." "VC?" "Beaucoup VC?" "Beaucoup VC?" "Three VC." "One GI." "All right." "[SPEAKS VIETNAMESE]" "I know it's getting dark." "Can you give us another hour?" "Go." "Uh, negative." "LT?" "Not a trace." "Return to base immediately." "Wilco, Redwing 2-6, out." "The old man says we've gotta go, so we've gotta go." "All right, we'll load them up." "[MEN SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "[MAN GROANING]" "MAN:" "I don't know anything." "Get away from me." "[GROANS]" "[WHISPERS] Carl?" "Carl?" "Carl?" "Hey, buddy, how you doing?" "Scott..." "How are you?" "You came." "I'm gonna get you out of here." "I knew you'd come." "I knew you'd come." "I'm going to get you out of here." "I knew you'd come." "I'm going to get you out of here." "How you doing?" "Shh." "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "Go." "Go." "Fuck." "[MAN SPEAKS VIETNAMESE]" "Yeah, I heal quick." "[MEN SPEAKING ANGRILY IN VIETNAMESE]" "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "No, sir, he's not AWOL." "He's just out there looking for his brother now." "His brother is in a body bag." "Excuse me, sir." "Now, shouldn't we let graves registration determine that?" "We don't know that." "Baker could be right." "He disobeyed a direct order to get in that helicopter, didn't he?" "No, sir." "He got on the helicopter just fine." "It's just that he got off again." "Look, sir, if you could just give us 24 hours before you list him as anything." "The point is, we've got to go out there and find him if we can and bring him back." "Oh, yes, because I sure as hell don't want to be the one to write their mother and tell her that one of her sons is dead and the other one is MIA." "And I can't figure out why the Army would send two brothers to Vietnam." "Well, sir, apparently, they both wanted to be here." "Gung-ho, huh?" "Yes, sir." "Okay, you've got your 24 hours." "Thank you, sir." "You know, sir, if you had a brother, you'd do the same thing." "I don't have a brother." "Hey, you okay?" "Uh, yeah, I guess." "I've just got a couple of loose teeth." "It feels like I've got a few broken ribs." "We've got to get out of here." "But how?" "Can you reach my hands?" "No, I can't reach them." "You think they're going to kill us?" "I don't know." "I'm sorry I got you into this mess." "Hey, hey, you're my brother." "You know what?" "I haven't hurt this much since that fight we got in in the ninth grade." "Yeah, if mom hadn't caught you with that butcher knife, you probably would have killed me." "Probably." "Hey, Scott, what were we fighting about anyway?" "Uh..." "Mary-Lou Pope." "Remember, you were trying to steal her away, and she was my girl?" "Oh, you've gotta get a handle on this jealous streak of yours, bubba." "God, I swear, if we get out of here alive," "I'm going to kill you." "[♪♪♪]" "[NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]" "[BARKING ORDERS IN VIETNAMESE]" "Bravo 6, this is Bravo 2-6, over?" "MAN:" "Yeah, Unit Bravo 6." "Go." "No sign of him." "What's the word from the bird?" "Over." "Negative." "Haven't seen a thing." "Over." "I want one more look to my Sierra." "We found something that may be tracks." "Go." "Affirmative." "Bravo 6 out." "All right, let's mount up." "We're moving out!" "I want" "[GUNFIRE]" "To the left, tree line!" "All right, men, watch for wires!" "This one's wasted, sarge!" "We've got movement up ahead!" "[GRUNTING]" "[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]" "Okay, you make one false move, little buddy," "I'll blow a hole in you to drive a pickup through." "Get that Kit Carson scout up here!" "Hurry up, hurry up, now!" "All right, you ask him if he saw two Americans." "[SPEAKS VIETNAMESE] [RESPONDS]" "[MAN SCREAMS]" "Hey, knock it off!" "LT, we want to find Bakers." "I don't give a damn, sergeant." "This kind of stuff doesn't go on in my command!" "Now, you leave this man alone!" "[SPEAKS VIETNAMESE]" "He no understand English." "He think you said to kill him." "He want to talk now." "He say he see two big GIs." "He say the NVA have them now." "Ask him where the NVA are." "He say he will show us." "I don't know if I trust him." "LT, I think we got lucky." "[SPEAKING VIETNAMESE]" "[RESPONDS IN VIETNAMESE]" "Hey, what if this guy's leading us into a trap?" "If he is, he's going to be the first one to die." "You know, it makes you wonder, you see this guy spilling his guts, you wonder what you'd do if you were in his spot." "If it was you I was ratting on, I'd spill my guts." "I believe you." "Shut up." "He said they're on the other side right now." "My eyes may be bad, LT, but I don't see squat." "Neither do I." "Binoculars?" "Oh, my God..." "I don't believe this." "Have a look." "Tell me if you see what I see?" "Oh, yeah, you betcha I do." "Bravo 6, this is Bravo 2-6." "Over." "This is Bravo six." "Go." "Bravo 6, it looks like we've hit a bull's eye." "We've got a November Victor Alpha battalion and support team." "Go." "Rockets." "There are 1-0-7 rockets on those bikes." "Looks like there may be rockets in the unit." "Over." "Give me your coordinates." "From checkpoint Beer, 200 meters west," "700 meters north, over." "Bravo 6, out." "This is Bravo 6." "Air strike is confirmed." "The birds are inbound." "Napalm in 20." "Over." "There's Baker." "LT, I think I spotted him, over there by the truck." "Bravo 6, request you abort mission." "Confirm sighting of two American Papa Oscar Whiskey." "Over." "Repeat, confirm sighting of two American" "Papa Oscar Whiskey." "Over." "We've got communication failure." "We can't get through to them." "Over." "Man, I don't believe it." "Six, have you got an ETA on those birds?" "Go." "Affirmative." "Ecto, Tango, Alpha, 12 Mike." "Over." "We've got 12 minutes." "We gotta move." "[BARKING ORDERS IN VIETNAMESE]" "I'm not gonna eat this." "[SPEAKS VIETNAMESE]" "What's going on?" "Hey." "Look." "Hey, gook!" "Yo!" "Damn it." "What is it?" "More of them." "Three minutes." "Do you want to scrub it?" "[SHOUTS IN VIETNAMESE] [MACHINE GUNS FIRE]" "Get under the truck!" "The truck!" "The truck!" "What do you mean?" "Roll it on them." "Yeah." "Get up, get up, get up!" "Come on, go, go!" "We're out of time!" "LT:" "The fighters are coming in!" "Get up!" "Get up!" "Ruiz!" "Come on!" "Untie me!" "You're crazy, man!" "Hey, it ain't for you." "It's for your brother." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on!" "Yeah!" "Go, Ruiz, baby!" "Go." "I got it, I got it!" "Come on!" "[SHOUTS IN VIETNAMESE]" "Come on!" "Come on, man." "Come on, Baker!" "Come on, Baker!" "I said, move it, Baker!" "Come on!" "Move it!" "[♪♪♪]" "Thank you, sir." "Hey, Ruiz, man, take care of my little brother, all right?" "Yeah." "Well, I guess I'll be seeing you!" "Yeah, I'll be seeing you!" "Hey listen, my outfit's being transferred by the DMC!" "Anything happens" "Nothing's gonna happen." "Well, if it does," "I just want you to know you've got my comic book collection, the complete Spiderman!" "Thanks." "You really are the best brother I've got." "You take care of yourself, all right?" "You too!" "Give me a bonk." "Give me a real bonk." "[SURF MUSIC PLAYING, CHORUS HARMONIZING]" "Surfers rule!" "[♪♪♪]"