Camp X-Ray Page #5

Is that what he told you?

4-7-1, the detainee...

you two are friends.

No, sir.

You're not friendly with him?

- No, sir.

- You don't talk to him?

We have spoken.

I am...Not...

I...

- Like I said in my report...

- I've read your report.

I know what it says.

I also know what corporal

ransdell says about it.

But what I don't know and will probably

never know is what is really going on here.

Do you like it here, son?

Sir?

Do you like it here...

In Guantanamo bay?

Yes, sir.

It's fine.

I hate it.

This ain't the kind of post

a guy makes his stars on.

Nobody gives you a medal

when you do it right...

they just give you a demotion

when you do it wrong.

My granddad... he flew 25 missions over

Germany, blew up a dozen Nazi installments.

What do we get?

We get to babysit a bunch of sheep farmers.

Like I said, I hate it

here, and, yet, here I am.

And do you know why?

I'm here because my commanding

officer told me to come here.

Yes, sir.

The review board will have, uh,

a hearing for both of you next month.

- I didn't do...

- You're dismissed.

Yes, sir.

Good morning, sir.

- Hey.

- Hey.

How's your Enchilada?

It's about as good as it looks.

I should have went with

the chicken fingers.

Hard to mess those up, right?

Hear about what happened on delta pod?

What?

Another cocktail?

No. A dude tried to hang

himself last night.

How?

It's not even possible.

We watch these guys 24-7.

No, not a detainee.

It was a... it was a guard.

The dude tied himself off to a

ceiling fan and... get this...

the piece of sh*t pulled out of the wall.

Can you believe that sh*t?

The dude's life got saved

by shitty army contractors.

It's funny, right?

He's lucky.

It's crazy though, right...

that he tried to kill himself?

I mean, I get it.

It's a tough mission, you know.

But what the f***, man?

It's our f***ing job.

You got to get over it, you know?

Yeah.

I know. It's got to be hard

for some people, though.

It's...

It's not as black and white

as they said it was gonna be.

What's that mean?

I don't know what he was expecting,

but I'm sure it wasn't this.

Come on, though.

It's not as bad as that.

A lot of these guys aren't even that tough.

Exactly.

Makes you feel f***ing guilty.

It's like...

Guilty? Come... what the f***

you got to feel guilty for?

No, man.

Hell, you shouldn't feel guilty about sh*t.

These motherfuckers did 9/11,

and now they're in jail... end of story.

The motherfuckers that did 9/11 died there.

You know what your problem is?

You've been talking too much

to the f***ing translators.

They've gotten all in your head, and

you've forgotten how lucky you really are.

We could be in Iraq right now.

You realize that?

I mean, you'd rather be dodging

cocktails than bullets, right?

No.

Whatever.

10 minutes, faggots.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Hey...You smoke now?

Yeah.

What are you gonna do, Cole?

Tell on it?

Based on the detainees' preferences...

Yo.

- What's up?

- Here you go.

You've been transferred.

What? Where?

Night shift.

Yeah.

Just, uh, skip tomorrow.

Rotate in on the next.

Your new O.I.C. Will come get you.

It's all there.

Why?

Why?

Sh*t, Cole. You know ain't

no why in the army.

Hey. Hey.

Is that clock right?

Yeah.

So...W-where is blondie?

Huh?

Detainee 1-0-8 was heard

singing a song in Arabic

that had the English words

"bin laden" in it.

At 1700 hours, detainee 9-1 complained

that his chow smelled rotten.

He was given another meal,

which he said tasted bad.

At 1900, detainee 2-3-5

was given a water bottle.

He drank it, asked for another,

and proceeded to drink six more

bottles in the span of five minutes.

He then complained of feeling bad.

We had 2-5 moves scheduled,

2-8 moves completed.

Atten-hut!

Honor bound.

To defend freedom.

Blondie?

Blondie?

It is you.

Hey, don't... don't get up.

Go back to sleep.

No. No. No. I..I...I...

I can never sleep well...

you know, here, anyway.

I didn't... I didn't know they

kept the lights on all night.

All day and all night.

How is it that you're here?

I mean, uh, you're a night guard.

Oh. Um, I'm sorry.

You cannot say. I-It's okay.

No. Actually, uh...

...I snitched on someone.

What... what... what is it... snitch?

It's like golden snitch and...

No.

Um, to snitch on someone is,

uh...It's to tell... like, if someone

does something wrong, you turn them in.

Who... who did you snitch on?

I can't say.

It's moptop, huh?

What... what did he do to you?

You should get some sleep.

See you later.

I'm not gonna tell you what he did.

Okay.

So, tell me this one...

how did you end up here?

I told you... they reassigned me.

No, no.

How did you end up here in this place?

How did you end up here?

Me?

How did I end up here?

I could tell you that I was not

with Al-Qaeda or a terrorist or...

you wouldn't believe me, anyway.

Nobody believes me here.

So you're from Germany?

Yeah.

You remember.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

From Germany, yeah.

Actually, I was, you know, from Bremen.

Do you know the city... Bremen?

Bremen?

- You don't know?

- No. I can't even say it.

Huh? Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

- No speakDeutsch?

- Mm, Dutch?

- What?

- Nein.

Um, no.

Have you been in Germany before?

No?

- No.

- No.

No. I'd like to... plan to.

So, tell me... where have you been?

I mean, you're...

you're probably gonna laugh.

Me? Laugh? No.

At you?

Uh, I-I never laugh at you.

This is my first time out of the country...

I mean, it's pretty lame, right?

No.

No, it's not.

It's... you're... you're young.

You're very young, and you're...

you're a beginner, huh?

Yeah.

There are more people on this

base than in my hometown.

Small, huh?

Yeah, tiny... gets smaller every day.

And is this the reason that you came here?

Part of it, yeah.

What is the other part?

A lot of reasons.

Um...

I wanted to do something.

You know, I...

I wanted to do something important.

Yeah.

I understand.

Hey.

Thank you.

It's hard making the switch, huh?

Yeah, it's all right.

It takes a few days.

Of course, uh, you won't be a night owl for...

for too long, right?

I guess not.

Or...

I hated the day shift...

bunch of detainees chatting your ear off.

I'd hate that.

Thanks for the coffee.

Hey. Are you still awake?

What day is today?

Wednesday.

No, what date is today?

Um, July 14th.

So you're leaving next month?

Yeah.

How'd you know that?

They always change the guards in August.

So, when... when you leave,

will you sign up again here?

Like, you know, there are guards

here that have been for many years.

No, I don't think so.

So you want to go to your home, your...

your small town?

No.

What do you want to do, then?

I don't know yet.

Travel, maybe.

Go to Bremen.

I don't like this month.

Always these new guards...

Treating us like very bad guys.

They'll learn...Like I did.

What did you learn?

Huh?

Tell me.

You must learn something, huh,

when I throw that sh*t on you...

you learned something, huh?

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