Courage Under Fire Page #3

- Making another pass, Ran?

- Yep.

No! We should go for altitude,

and call for support.

After we slow down that tank!

- How we gonna do that?

- Shut up and listen, soldier!

AItameyer,

unhook the aux fuel bladder port side.

Get ready to push it overboard.

Push it overboard, ma'am?

llario, unhook the flare gun!

What the f***...

Do it!

It's a bomb, a**hole!

Target coming up!

Gimme more!

Ready here!

- Got it?

- I got it!

- Tell us when you're there! Hell kick it!

- Allow for the speed of the craft!

- The pod will drop at the same velocity!

- He knows.

Pick your moment!

Now!

(cheering)

Oh, my God!

Oh!

Whoa! Sh*t!

Whoa! Oh, God!

Hang on, llario! Grab a hold of me!

Don't let go of me! Pull me in!

Hang on.

Come on, llario! Pull yourself up!

Do something!

No! No! Rady, call in a Mayday!

llario,... call it in!

(Ilario)

Mayday! Dustoff-3... we are going down!

Mayday! Mayday! This is Dustoff-3!

We're going down! Mayday! Mayday!

This is Dustoff-3!

We're going down! We're going down!

Mayday! Mayday! This is Dustoff-3!

We are going down!

Mayday! Mayday! This is Dustoff-3!

We're going down! We're going down!

We're going down! Oh, my God...

That's it.

I woke up three days later

on a hospital ship.

Nearly bought it, that's sure.

(Larry King) When did you decide

the type of career in the Army you wanted?

(Schwarzkopf) That happened about

my third year at WestPoint when l was...

l could have gone in the Air Force.

l stood high enough in my class.

You can't get away from that guy.

He's everywhere.

- Hell of a soldier, though.

- You think so?

I know so.

Really. How?

I was with him in the Gulf.

No sh*t.

- Doing what?

- Armoured cavalry.

Hu-ah.

Hu-ah.

Once upon a time,

I was humping in the delta.

- With who?

- The 9 th.

- You kicked some serious butt.

- That's right.

- One for my friend...

- Colonel Nat Serling.

Make it a double for Colonel Serling.

Tony Gartner, Washington Post.

They won't find any criminal culpability

in the AI Bathra incident.

You got nothing to worry about.

Those were my men.

I put that badly. I'm sorry.

Look, I went to Virginia

and spoke with Mr. and Mrs. Boylar.

You what?

I'm sorry, but they got a right

to know what happened to their son.

Ill take that.

(steam hissing)

(Serling) And this Huey crew, they, uh,

returned fire all through the final rescue?

(Chelli) Yes, sir. l think so.

l couldn',t see much.

(Thompson) l heard it.

Nothing else sounds like an M-16.

Not know A-K or M-60.

(Egan) l heard it, too.

(Chelli) Last thing we see

is the Thunderbolt dropping napalm...

..on the two downed choppers.

(screaming)

Oh!

Sir!

All right, this is antifungal cream,...

..but to kill the athlete's foot when

you're in the shower, just piss on your feet.

That's disgusting.

What've you got for me today?

You want to get rid of the allergies to

bee pollen, then no caffeine, no chocolate.

Jesus. I give up coffee,

you can bury me now.

(chuckles)

- Morning, Colonel.

- Morning. You got some aspirins?

How many do you want?

I take eight every day.

Four's good.

- I need to talk to you, Specialist.

- Sir?

I'm investigating the recommendation to

award a Medal of Honour to Captain Walden.

Rowtero?

Yeah?

Can you cover for me?

I'm going to go feed the cancer genes.

Do you really need to, uh, I mean...

It's fine.

Uh, what do you want to know?

How long were you with Captain Walden?

Um... over... over two years.

Quite a long time.

Yeah.

You were her medic.

Yes, sir.

I don't fly any more though.

Well, don't miss it, do you?

Never.

Never again.

That's quite a habit you got.

Yeah, it's, uh...

..one of the few things I can call my own.

(laughs)

So...

..tell me what happened at AI Kufan.

See, I'd, uh...

..I'd never been in... in combat.

(tapping)

(helicopter)

Mayday! Mayday! This is Dustoff-3!

We're going down!

Mayday! This is Dustoff-3...

(groaning)

(moaning)

llario?

Yeah, I'm OK.

Rady's hurt.

Monfriez?

(crackling)

AItameyer?

Functioning.

Fire in the hold!

(Ilario) Come here, buddy.

This is Dustoff-3.

Acknowledge.

This is Dustoff-3.

Here. Come on.

This is Dustoff-3.

Come on.

Dustoff-3. Acknowledge.

AItameyer, how's that fire?

Under control. Fuel tank's intact.

(gunfire)

Enemy at the back door!

Come on! Come on!

Monfriez, get that saw working!

Come on! Get down!

I've got the M-16!

(gunfire)

llario?

He's bad. It's the lung.

We gotta get him out of here.

- Head wound?

- Superficial. How's the radio?

Dead. So's the ADT.

Monfriez, easy on the ammo!

We might be here a while!

Captain!

You've seen me do this a million times.

Youll be fine.

Ammo?

I got this belt and three more boxes.

OK, AItameyer,

rip out everything you can from the inside.

We're gonna make a perimeter.

Monfriez, cover us!

Go!

Where's our Kevlar?

I got one!

Well, put it on!

Unh. How's he doing?

He's the same.

I need a hook.

As soon as it gets dark, we dig in.

Then we wait.

For what?

For the good guys.

(laughing and shouting in Arabic)

You won't think it's so funny

when I nail your f***ing ass!

Yeah, they were laughing.

You about, uh... You done?

So tell me what happened...

..during the night.

You were there. You saw the nights.

You know, just... it was black.

Just... black.

Tell me what happened that night.

Well, she put us on two-hour watches.

Um... it's not like

any of us were going to sleep anyway.

(Monfriez)

Head down, AItameyer. You might lose it.

You OK, Captain?

Sh*t in my eye.

Will our guys come tonight?

Theyll be here.

Dust is blowing pretty bad.

I don't know

how much longer Rady can hang on.

I can hear the rag heads

when you're not gabbing.

Then I'd suggest everybody just...

They're going away.

It was just a probe.

llario?

I'm OK.

AItameyer?

My ear!

Monfriez?

I... I took one.

- Rady?

- Hanging in. How about you, Cap?

Unh...

Oh, sh*t.

Stay with Rady.

I like to come here.

It's not just the bikinis,

although they ain't bad.

It's these kids.

I like to watch them, you know?

My folks had this place

out on Calaveras Lake.

I still go there sometimes, watch 'em dive.

They do the damnedest things.

They never think about the consequences.

Imagine that.

Imagine not thinking

about the consequences?

Imagine that.

Are... are we done?

After the attack...

..during the night...

What?

I mean, we waited.

I... I still don't...

- I... I don't know what you...

- Just go on with what happened.

Well, Karen,...

the captain,... uh, was hurt pretty bad.

Ohh...

Unh...

Unh!

How many rounds left?

Just a sec.

How many rounds?

I just opened my last can of ammo.

Five mags for the M-16,...

..9-mll's full.

Mine's empty.

Fire a couple of rounds off.

- Let 'em know we're still allve.

- Roger that, Captain.

Now save your ammo

for something you can see.

During the course of the incident,

did she display any doubt, any fear...

..when she had to make

these life-and-death decisions?

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