:44:01
I asked to be in the infantry.
:44:03
- I asked to go to Vietnam.
- Terry.
:44:05
I live for the privilege
of commanding troops.
:44:07
I think it's the greatest honor
an American can have.
:44:10
You know how many birthdays
and Christmases I missed,
:44:12
spent rotting in jungles
or in the desert,
:44:14
just so you could play
war at ROTC?
:44:16
Childers! You gotta keep
your shit together here, man.
:44:20
Your court-martial board
is gonna be made up of people...
:44:23
who might've spent one day in
Grenada, maybe two days in Kuwait.
:44:25
They're gonna be beach boys who've
never been anywhere near combat.
:44:28
They're gonna be people
like Tom Chandler...
:44:29
sitting right here in front of you.
:44:31
That's who you're
making your case to.
:44:34
We don't have anybody
to back up your case.
:44:38
That's because
all my witnesses are dead.
:44:42
- Okay. So what happened?
- He lost it. He snapped.
:44:46
That's good.
We can snap him on the stand.
:44:47
This doesn't happen in a vacuum.
:44:49
Let's get a complete history
of Colonel Childers.
:44:51
Talk to every marine
he ever served with.
:44:54
My guess is
this has happened before.
:44:56
We have to be careful here.
:44:58
This guy is
the warrior's warrior.
:45:00
A Navy Cross, two Silver Stars
for composure in battle.
:45:06
He has no wife, no kids,
just the Corps.
:45:09
He was our best.
That's why he was sent.
:45:13
He's not on trial for the
good service he gave the country,
:45:15
but for what he did
on the wallin Yemen, period.
:45:17
Major, nobody wants to say it,
:45:19
but it occurs to me we're trying
to set an example here.
:45:22
So let's set it and show
the world we mean business.
:45:25
The first charge supports the death
penalty, and I say we go for it.
:45:29
No more death.
:45:31
I'll see that he never gets another
command and I'll put him in jail,
:45:34
but I will not seek death for a man
who served his country honorably.
:45:37
I don't want it
brought up again.
:45:40
We gotta show
Childers' state of mind.
:45:43
We gotta prove he went out
with intent to kill,
:45:45
and that is not going to be easy.
:45:47
Whether a man is charged
with murder or hailed as a hero...
:45:50
is sometimes a very thin line.
:45:52
Our case is this. Childers receives
orders that a regularly scheduled,
:45:56
I awful protest outside
our embassy in Yemen is unruly.