:49:02
Didn't see them.
:49:04
I've told you,
we run two basic stories here.
:49:08
Grunts who buy toothbrushes
and deodorant for gooks:
:49:11
Winning of Hearts And Minds.
:49:14
And combat action resulting in a kill:
"Winning the War."
:49:17
You must have seen blood trails,
drag marks?
:49:21
It was raining, sir.
:49:23
That's why God passed
the law of probability.
:49:26
Rewrite it with a happy ending,
say, one kill.
:49:29
A sapper or an officer. Which?
:49:32
Whichever you say.
:49:33
Grunts like reading about dead officers.
:49:36
Okay, an officer. How about a general?
:49:41
You'd like our guys to read
the paper and feel bad?
:49:44
In case you didn't know,
this is not a popular war.
:49:48
Our job is to report the news that the...
:49:50
..."why-are-we-here"
civilian newsmen ignore.
:49:53
Maybe you should go out
on some ops yourself.
:49:57
You could find more blood trails
and drag marks.
:50:01
I've had my ass in the grass.
Can't say I liked it much.
:50:05
Lots of bugs and too dangerous.
:50:08
My present duties keep me where I belong:
:50:11
In the rear with the gear.
:50:21
Tet. The Year of the Monkey.
:50:24
Vietnamese Lunar New Year's Eve.
:50:27
Down in Dogpatch, the gooks are
shooting off fireworks to celebrate.
:50:40
I am fucking bored to death, man.
:50:44
I have to get back in the shit.
:50:47
I ain't heard a shot fired
in anger in weeks.
:50:50
Joker's so tough, he'd eat the boogers
out of a dead man's nose...
:50:55
...then ask for seconds.
:50:58
Listen up, pilgrim.