The Last Full Measure

Kicking anthill, use 'em mess with gooks, 623 00:36:34,577 --> 00:36:36,960 next day the NVA would be right back again. 624 00:36:56,108 --> 00:36:57,788 - What's happening? - Well, the gooks, sir! 625 00:36:57,969 --> 00:36:59,552 - Where? - Over there, sir! 626 00:37:00,163 --> 00:37:02,067 This place is crawling with them! 627 00:37:05,234 --> 00:37:06,523 Move! Move! 628 00:37:06,548 --> 00:37:08,072 - They're on the trees! - They're on the trees! 629 00:37:08,096 --> 00:37:09,809 They're on the trees! 630 00:37:13,710 --> 00:37:14,822 Fuck! 631 00:37:15,070 --> 00:37:16,290 Cover me! 632 00:37:21,593 --> 00:37:23,242 We didn't have a fucking chance. 633 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,461 Ah, you're dogging it. 634 00:37:38,132 --> 00:37:38,859 Just so you know, 635 00:37:38,884 --> 00:37:41,719 I can't find the chain of command endorsements in the Pitsenbarger file. 636 00:37:41,743 --> 00:37:43,178 So, put it in your report. 637 00:37:43,203 --> 00:37:44,546 I am missing something. 638 00:37:45,523 --> 00:37:47,004 What are you doing? 639 00:37:47,055 --> 00:37:47,773 What? 640 00:37:47,921 --> 00:37:50,133 This thing was ancient history before you were born. 641 00:37:51,413 --> 00:37:52,835 Let me tell you something. 642 00:37:52,914 --> 00:37:54,984 It is an undisputed fact at the Pentagon 643 00:37:55,109 --> 00:37:57,462 that all the real hardware goes with the officers. 644 00:37:57,938 --> 00:38:01,437 There's been one enlisted Medal Of Honor in in the history of the Air Force. 645 00:38:02,156 --> 00:38:05,343 So, somebody makes endorsements disappear because a guy is enlisted? 646 00:38:05,765 --> 00:38:07,554 It's not a canon worm you want to open. 647 00:38:08,726 --> 00:38:09,641 Why not? 648 00:38:09,666 --> 00:38:12,023 Because confronting the Air Force Decorations Board 649 00:38:12,048 --> 00:38:13,611 is not in your business. 650 00:38:13,952 --> 00:38:14,960 Shoot. 651 00:38:15,688 --> 00:38:16,991 - I'm getting a shower. - Yeah. 652 00:38:17,016 --> 00:38:18,244 Let me count. 653 00:38:27,250 --> 00:38:28,417 Hey, there, hotshot. 654 00:38:28,937 --> 00:38:30,488 I thought you'd go off the planet. 655 00:38:30,523 --> 00:38:32,971 I'm pacing myself. It's the long way down. 656 00:38:33,460 --> 00:38:34,742 What can I do for you? 657 00:38:35,859 --> 00:38:38,331 You ever hear of a General John A. Hackmyer? 658 00:38:39,219 --> 00:38:40,817 He was one of the Army 659 00:38:40,984 --> 00:38:43,434 silver backs, down in Saigon, during the war. 660 00:38:43,727 --> 00:38:45,335 He was also the Service Secretary 661 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,500 that approved the Medal of Honor review division. 662 00:38:48,373 --> 00:38:49,834 Can you get track him down? 663 00:38:50,086 --> 00:38:52,055 I mean, he is preferably fertilizer by now, 664 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,263 besides, you're the one with the DOD security clearance. 665 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,041 Maybe we don't want the DOD to know. 666 00:39:00,047 --> 00:39:01,055 Can you hold on a second? 667 00:39:09,578 --> 00:39:10,775 We don't? 668 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,296 Chain of command endorsements 669 00:39:12,507 --> 00:39:15,162 aren't essential element for congressional review. 670 00:39:16,131 --> 00:39:17,710 And they're not in the file. 671 00:39:18,547 --> 00:39:20,210 What are asking me? 672 00:39:20,820 --> 00:39:24,265 I'm asking you if it's possible that what we're looking for is really lost. 673 00:39:25,202 --> 00:39:26,878 What are you doing? 674 00:39:28,382 --> 00:39:29,749 I'm doing my job. 675 00:39:29,766 --> 00:39:31,735 What do you... What do you mean, what I'm doing? 676 00:39:31,797 --> 00:39:33,781 It's a rare quality these days. 677 00:39:34,687 --> 00:39:36,287 What, did you grow a conscience? 678 00:39:36,593 --> 00:39:37,640 Not at all. 679 00:39:38,171 --> 00:39:39,688 It's a waste of energy. 680 00:39:41,725 --> 00:39:42,952 Well, I sniff around. 681 00:39:44,734 --> 00:39:45,734 Okay. 682 00:40:04,570 --> 00:40:06,431 - Daddy! - How are you doing, Mister? 683 00:40:08,585 --> 00:40:09,840 We have company. 684 00:40:12,430 --> 00:40:13,438 Hi. 685 00:40:14,148 --> 00:40:16,695 Long drive from Wellington on a school bus. 686 00:40:17,119 --> 00:40:18,475 I don't have a car. 687 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:20,064 They let me take her home. 688 00:40:23,672 --> 00:40:24,687 Who wants to go to the Fort? 689 00:40:24,711 --> 00:40:26,723 - Me! - Okay. 690 00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:28,447 Thanks for your coffee. 691 00:40:28,977 --> 00:40:29,984 Pleasure. 692 00:40:34,844 --> 00:40:36,297 It mess with my head, man... 693 00:40:37,844 --> 00:40:39,561 The way you came to see me. 694 00:40:41,367 --> 00:40:42,962 Started having dreams again. 695 00:40:45,523 --> 00:40:46,531 Can't sleep. 696 00:40:48,086 --> 00:40:49,337 Probably normal. 697 00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:50,508 Considering... 698 00:40:55,227 --> 00:40:56,235 Sit down. 699 00:41:00,094 --> 00:41:01,102 I, uh, 700 00:41:04,375 --> 00:4