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The Siege of Firebase Gloria
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- Year:
- 1989
- 97 min
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Looks abandoned.
Or worse.
Let's go, Shortwave.
It was Chinese New Year.
The Tet holiday.
The communists had
called a 36-hour truce.
It should've
been a routine patrol.
But we weren't
taking any chances.
Get DiNardo up here.
DiNardo was my right hand.
Go!
The kind of gung-ho fighting machine
We'd been to this village before
and a lot of smiling,
shaking hands
and bowing
to show that we
were the good guys.
The people were friendly.
We like them
and they liked us.
DiNardo knew enough Vietnamese
to be a big hit.
So it really hurts
This rotten war was
getting to us.
We'd stay too long,
we seen too much.
Jesus Christ. . .
Sonofabitch!
DiNardo!
Got more in the wells.
Jesus. . .
No amount of training
could prepare you for an experience like this.
Shortwave said he'd seen worse
on the streets of Detroit.
But that's the kind of bullshit
you use to keep from going crazy.
Murphy was the one
that's hit the hardest.
He was a green college
kid from Indiana.
The closest he'd been to death
was his grand dad's funeral.
Sergeant Hafner!
Yo!
This is insanity.
This is effective.
Charlie's got this valley
by the balls.
Won't nobody step outta
line around here.
Sergeant Major!
Yo!
We got a boy, Sergeant Major.
He's alive!
Please, kid.
Calm down.
C'mon, Juicy?
Wanna Juicy?
Juicy, Juicy, Juicy.
There ain't no
ceasefire around here
that's for damn sure.
Somethin' comin' down.
Somethin' heavy.
Oh, we gotta find out
what it is.
We gonna leave
the village like this?
Torch it.
We radioed headquarters,
but they didn't read the signs
like we did.
Just another bunch
of dead gooks
What else is new?
DiNardo was pretty
steamed up inside
so I put him on point.
Best therapy
As point men go,
DiNardo had few equals.
He had a sharp eye
and a good nose for trouble.
Hold on.
It's DiNardo, sir.
What do you got?
Two VC by a cave.
I'm gonna pop 'em.
We got contact.
Murphy, I want you to check
out the area.
Need to know how many
dinks we're dealing with here.
You sure you wanna do this alone?
Yeah.
My turn.
Besides, I had needed a bath.
Okay Nard, you got the ball.
if I ain't back in ten,
use your imagination.
Sure..
Stay on 'em.
Jesus Christ.
You look like a f***ing ghost.
Whose were these?
I lost. . .
Lost my whole patrol.
What's your unit, son?
There were thousands.
We saw. . .
We saw thousands of 'em.
What's your name, son?
I don't. . .
I don't know.
No. . . No. . .
I'm whip-bounding.
Two clicks back. . .
Abandoned camps.
Well, there's a company,
there's a battalion.
- Come.
Tell DiNardo to get everybody
ready to pull out.
-Right.
C-4's in place, Sergeant Major.
Might be a pretty good
idea to blow it up.
Yes, sir.
Dinks up ahead!
Twenty, maybe thirty.
You know the program,
DiNardo.
Do your thing.
I want you bunched up
around the casualty.
Let's move.
DiNardo was like a brother
I never had.
He's always getting into trouble.
And I was always gettin' him out.
But when the times got tough,
he was the one
For a while, there had been
And it needed to be resolved.
But now was not the time.
Now, I needed the best
rifleman in the squad
covering my back.
Any VC in your area?
No VC here.
Only fish made in bottles.
-Yeah, I bet.
Where the boy come from?
We found the boy in An Lap village.
An Lap village?
I don't like it.
Let's move.
Let's get outta here.
I don't like the looks
of this at all.
Get on the horn.
There's not a swinging dink here
that ain't recruiting age.
Tell DiNardo to lock and load.
Watch the one
with the hairy face.
Lock and load, DiNardo.
It don't look good.
Sergeant Major's saying: watch
the one with the beard.
Shortwave, get your dumb black
John Wayne ass down!
Get down!
Get that Fifty on the boat!
Ceasefire! Hold your fire!
I want these boats
under water.
Don't use our frags.
There's plenty of dink
grenades up here.
I'd like to know where these needle-dick
dinks are getting new AK-f***in'-47s at.
What the hell's goin' on here, Spider?
You on Rand R?
Get down here and
help Hawk sink those boats.
Shortwave, you get in touch
with the damn chopper yet?
No, sir. Sergeant Major.
Keep trying.
Hey, DiNardo!
Yo!
I want an accurate body count.
I got it!
Twenty males. Nine females.
Three goddamn tots.
You'll love this sh*t.
VC regulars.
Just beautiful.
Happy Chinese New Year.
Murphy, are you ready yet?
I want that chopper in
here, right now.
Doin' my best, Sergeant Major.
Yeah, well. That's not
quite good enough.
Try harder.
Golden Eagle,
this is Shortwave.
What the hell am
I gonna name you, huh?
How 'bout, Pee Wee, huh?
Can you say, Pee Wee?
Pee Wee.
Pee Wee.
- Pee Wee
Pee Wee, I named you
Pee Wee.
Pee Wee Reese.
for the Brooklyn Dodgers
that ever lived.
Don't get too goddamn
attached to that boy.
You know, what?
He sure as hell
doesn't look like Jimmy.
But he's got the
same spark in his eye.
You know what I mean?
Look at him.
It doesn't get any
goddamn easier.
Does it Nard?
Nope.
So, Sergeant Major. Where
the hell are we going now?
Gloria's the name of it.
What?
Gloria!
Ain't too far from here.
Sh*t!
F***!
We're we hit?
Don't worry 'bout it.
We're comin' down.
Take it port side.
- Sergeant Major!
This sucker's dead meat.
Get us down. Now!
You got it, chief!
Set it down. Now!
It's alright. It's alright.
Be cool!
We're goin' down.
Just cut the fuel!
Get the f*** outta here!
C'mon! C'mon!
Jesus.
C'mon, let's get the Ghost
down to the aid station.
Murphy, see to it that
the kid gets de-loused.
DiNardo, your radio with me.
Let's move.
Let's move.
Where's your CO?
He's in the CP
jackin' off.
Yeah, he's at the pod now, sir.
Must've jerked off for the
second time by now, baby.
Good afternoon, sir.
You are the CO?
Who're you?
Sergeant Major Hafner.
Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol, sir.
Yes.
difficulty in this country, you know.
Difficulty.
Street Without Joy.
You read it?
Yes, sir. I have.
Your opinion?
It's history, sir.
History.
Very good.
And you know that fortified positions
linked by mobile reconnaissance
has survived the strategy?
Are you paying attention, soldier?
Sir. we have just encountered
heavy enemy activity
in the vicinity of An Lap.
Don't be impertinent, soldier.
were discussing history.
History.
Well it seems to me that you would
like to know what the hell. . .
Nothing is 'seems to be'.
You remember that, soldier.
Yes, sir.
Even the incomparable Clausewitz
underestimated the
value of airborne artillery.
Then, how could he possibly know
given the historical contexts.
Sir, the gooks are on
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