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I think it might be useful to clarify
a few things right off the bat.
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By simple definition...
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we are in the business
of winning wars.
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What else do you need an army for?
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Take the Cold War,
we won without firing a single shot.
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Why? Number one,
we just flat out out-spent them.
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The Russians couldn't shovel money
into the fire as fast as we could.
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Number two, and this is where
my command comes in...
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technology.
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Nobody shapes nature the way we do.
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We take atoms and molecules
and before we finished with them...
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they're everything
from combat boots to bombs.
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The kind of bombs that nobody
from the other side will ever see...
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until the damn thing ploughing down
their chimney...
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like Santa Claus from hell!
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General?
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What?
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This is not the first time
you've been here.
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We've been down this road before,
that is correct.
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Several times, in fact.
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I haven't been keeping count.
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Let me refresh your memory.
You have before you a document.
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I do.
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The sensor fused anti-tank missile.
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I'll be the first to admit...
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that this programme
did had its share of difficulties.
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We did experience a glitch or two
with the thing, that much is certain.
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But even a heat-seeking missile
can miss a target.
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General, I see here
that you taped electric hotplates...
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to the surface of the vehicle...
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to help your heat-seeking missile
find its target...
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and that the temperature
of the vehicle was so high...
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that it could have fried an egg
at 20 feet!
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Commence fire!
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There was a verifiable deviation...
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of the standard
test data accumulation.
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There were other deviations,
were there not?
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What about the Paveway bomb?
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I'm not going to sit here
and tell you...
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- the Paveway never missed.
- It missed by a mean distance...
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of five miles and nearly 50 percent
of the time.
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You know...
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in baseball, a guy who hits .400
is considered pretty damn great.
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In baseball the losing team
isn't killed by their opponents.
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Be that as it may,
the Paveway is one hell of a bomb.
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Laser-guided, state-of-the-art.
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And it proved what?
That we have an effective weapon...
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as long as the enemy allows us
to build a two-storey crane...
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directly above their tanks?
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We have had
some spectacular successes.
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- Such as?
- That's classified information.
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- General...
- Please...
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Let's move on to the next item
on our list.
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The Bradley fighting vehicle.
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What would you say...
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the batting average is
for the Bradley, General?
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It takes people
with sophisticated knowledge...
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and expertise...
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to conduct these tests
and to interpret the results.
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If the US Army acted on the advice
of every Tom, Dick, and Harry...
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who had an opinion
on these matters...
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we'd wind up with a bunch of B-52s
powered by outboard motors.
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- I fail to see your point.
- My point is...
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that a lot of things have
to come together...
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to create a new weapon...
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and it takes teamwork.
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Good, old-fashioned teamwork.
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Colonel James Burton,
was he part of your team, General?
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More or less.
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Post, sir?
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Sergeant.
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Can you tell me how to get to 4E-624?
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Forward into the escalator,
your left, two flights up to four...
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your left, E-ring, your right...
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proceed past corridor nine,
face left.
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Thank you.
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It's no secret that
Colonel Burton had a rocky tenure...
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that we didn't see eye-to-eye.
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But it didn't start out that way.
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No!
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I spoke to General Hall.
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General Hall spoke to General Jones,
General Jones spoke to Admiral Watts.
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Well, then, write it down!
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That takes care of Spina
in Rhode Island...
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and Mays from Nebraska.
Any Democrats?
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No, forget him.
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Because he's a scum-sucking Judas...
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who'd sell his mother
for a handful of votes.
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How about the Senate?
That son of a bitch.
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After we papered his state
with contracts.
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All right then,
let's just make the fuselage...
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in Michigan and the landing gear
in Mississippi.
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By all means,
let's keep Congressman Groves...
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and his bloodsucking buddies happy.
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- Welcome, Colonel.
- Thank you, General.
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Thought you and I
ought to get to know one another.
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I welcome the opportunity, sir.
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- Fact is, I'd like to help you.
- Thank you, sir.
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I don't mean to alarm you, Colonel.
But this new job of yours...
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under certain circumstances,
can turn into...
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a real shit-burning detail.
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You're going to need friends
as you can get.
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I'd like you to count me
as one of them.
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I appreciate that, sir.
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Air Force Academy...
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Strategic Air Command,
MBA from Auburn.
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Your commanding officer,
General De Grasso and I...
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are old friends.
He says as far as your concern...
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the sky is the limit.
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But then you draw the short straw.
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I was assigned, sir.
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Hell, it's a bum deal,
whoever made it.
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Every other year, somebody decides
we're spending too much money.
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A bunch of pencil-necks
put their pointy little heads...
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together and come up with a plan.
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This year, it's the joint
live-fire test programme.
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Staffed with officers
from every branch of the service.
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So now we got the Army, Navy,
Air Force and Marines...
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doing a circle-jerk
over weapons testing...
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and you get to hold the big dick.
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I mean, who thinks up this nonsense?
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Congress, sir?
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And so it should, that's its job.
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You'll never hear me
criticise the Hill.
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Although you'd think Congress
has enough of their own shit...
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to shovel without wondering
what's going on over here.
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Well, I'm not anticipating
any problems with the posting, sir.
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Neither am I.
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A man doesn't come as far
in his carreer as you have...
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without knowing
how to walk a minefield.
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Howard Matheson.
Came here two rotations ago.
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That marlin is not the only thing
he caught.
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I got him into SenCom
when he left here...
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and now he's head
of their missile testing.
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- Blake Gelmore, you know Blake?
- No, sir.
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Man wasn't even a full-bird colonel
when he left for the private sector.
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That was four years ago.
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A few frequency-gain
modulator contracts later...
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and look at him, man could buy
and sell both of us...
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a thousand times over.
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- Lucky man.
- Smart man.
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First-rate soldier,
just like you, Colonel.
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Knew how to make the best
of a difficult situation.
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Now this new job of yours...
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is too tough for any one man
to go it alone.
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It's going to require teamwork.
Here you go.
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These are a couple of your projects
undergoing testing.
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The UH-60 helicopter,
the AV-8B jump-jet...
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and the Bradley fighting vehicle.
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All outstanding programmes,
all organised and ready to go.
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I did a little homework for you.
Give you a leg-up.
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I appreciate that, General.
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You know,
you could return the favour...
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by giving the Bradley there
just a little extra attention.
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Attention?
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We need it in the field.
The sooner the better.
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Just make sure to go on top
of all the things in your inbox...
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so it'll get in your outbox
as soon as possible.
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As a personal favour to me.
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- Best of luck, Colonel.
- Thank you, sir.
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- Colonel.
- Sir?
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Next time you're told
to report to this office, be on time.
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Yes, sir.
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Sir.
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Colonel James Burton...
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I'm here to take a look
at the Bradley fighting vehicle test.
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- Straight ahead, sir.
- Thank you.
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"I want to be an airborne ranger"
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"I want to be an airborne ranger..."
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- There he is.
- That's the guy?
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That's him,
supposed to be real smart.
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Squadron Officer School...
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- Air Command and Staff College.
- First tour with the Pentagon?
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He was at the Air Force lab
at Albuquerque...
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when Congress called.
He's a soldier, not just a manager.
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What do you mean?
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He's put in his fair share
of flying time.
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Looks like a fucking choirboy to me.
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Maybe, but nothing goes
into production until he signs off.
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"Target is now in position..."
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Colonel Burton, JD Bach.
Welcome to the team.
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- Colonel Bach.
- Yes, sir. Good to see you.
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This is Major Sayers,
our chief tester.
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Army Weapons Research Lab.
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So how'd an Air Force guy end up
overseeing tests run by the Army?
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- Well, it could have been worse.
- How's that?
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Congress could have appointed
someone from the Navy.
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"The range is now hot."
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"Commencing armour penetration tests
on the Bradley fighting vehicle."
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"Attention on the firing line."
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Are you ready on the right?
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"Ready on the left?"
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"Firing line is ready."
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"Firing detail, commence firing."
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"Cease fire."
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- Damn impressive armour.
- Congratulations.
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All right, drinks are on me,
gentlemen.
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Joining us, Colonel Burton?
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Congratulations,
thanks for your help on that one.
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You know we couldn't have done it
without you.
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Thanks for your help on that one.
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Say, Colonel,
are you going to join us?
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Well...
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- Shouldn't we take a closer look?
- No, actually, safety precautions.
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See, the fire team
goes out there first...
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and then no one else is allowed
near the vehicle...
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for at least another hour.
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- Why is that?
- With any anti armour test...
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involving a live round,
there's a freak chance...
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that something might blow
after the fact.
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Plus we don't want to lose you
first day on the job, Colonel.
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So how about that drink?
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Sounds good, Major.
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There'll be a phone call for you
in your office...
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at exactly 11.00am
It's important you be there.
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- Good morning.
- Welcome, sir.
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- Welcome, sir.
- Morning.
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- Morning, Sergeant.
- Good morning, sir.
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I took the liberty of unpacking
a few of your things.
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Thank you, Sergeant.
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- Family, sir?
- What's that?
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- Family.
- That's my uncle.
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He was a flier in World War II.
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What's that?
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This is the plane
I learned to fly in, a T-28.
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I used to take her up,
slide the canopy back.
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Fly for hours.
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Just me and the sky.
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Personally, sir,
I like the sky right where it is...
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with me on the ground
looking up at it.
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So, where you from, sir?
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Just outside of Chicago.
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And where would that be?
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Normal.
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Normal, Illinois, is that on the map?
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Yes, Sergeant, it is.
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Is it normal in Normal?
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I think the word is uneventful.
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You getting paid by the hour,
Colonel?
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No, I got an appointment.
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I'll, take this, Sergeant, thank you.
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Fine.
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Colonel Burton.
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Hello?
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The test on the Bradley...
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I hear you wanted
to take a closer look.
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How did you hear that?
248
00:17:05,849 --> 00:17:09,019
When it comes to the Bradley,
follow your instincts, Colonel.
249
00:17:09,102 --> 00:17:12,564
- "Who is this?"
- I can't tell you that right now.
250
00:17:12,648 --> 00:17:15,860
Well, whoever you are,
I don't take unsolicited advice...
251
00:17:15,943 --> 00:17:17,695
from people I don't know.
252
00:17:17,778 --> 00:17:20,656
Just make sure you read
the fine print, Colonel.
253
00:17:28,748 --> 00:17:30,542
Sir, Colonel Burton. Sir.
254
00:17:31,918 --> 00:17:33,378
You're up early, sir.
255
00:17:33,462 --> 00:17:36,423
I thought I drop by I'm on my way
to the office, Sergeant.
256
00:17:36,507 --> 00:17:38,467
Check out the Bradley.
257
00:17:38,550 --> 00:17:43,097
Sir, isn't your office
40 miles that way, sir?
258
00:17:43,180 --> 00:17:45,850
Yes, Sergeant, yes, it is.
259
00:17:54,776 --> 00:17:58,280
Has anything been altered
on this vehicle since the test?
260
00:17:58,363 --> 00:18:00,115
No, sir.
261
00:18:05,871 --> 00:18:08,040
Are you looking for something, sir?
262
00:18:08,124 --> 00:18:10,876
Just reading the fine print,
Sergeant.
263
00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:12,962
Just reading the fine print.
264
00:18:38,364 --> 00:18:41,242
Stinger missiles, 50 cal tracers.
265
00:18:42,327 --> 00:18:44,746
7.62 tracers.
266
00:18:44,829 --> 00:18:46,665
25mm rounds.
267
00:18:48,542 --> 00:18:52,004
- What's this?
- That was used on the Bradley, sir.
268
00:19:00,554 --> 00:19:04,350
This writing, it's Romanian,
isn't it?
269
00:19:06,102 --> 00:19:07,770
Yes, sir, it is.
270
00:19:07,854 --> 00:19:11,358
Sir, Colonel Bach and Major Sayers
won't be here until noon.
271
00:19:11,441 --> 00:19:13,568
That's when our first test of the day
is scheduled, sir.
272
00:19:13,652 --> 00:19:17,572
Well, this isn't exactly
an all-out test, Sergeant.
273
00:19:17,656 --> 00:19:19,199
More like a little pop quiz.
274
00:19:19,283 --> 00:19:20,909
I'm not sure regulations allow us...
275
00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:23,078
to borrow the door
from the ammunition shed...
276
00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:25,873
for a pop quiz, sir.
277
00:19:25,956 --> 00:19:29,252
Sir, regulations state
that the ammunition shed...
278
00:19:29,335 --> 00:19:31,295
should never be left open, sir.
279
00:19:31,379 --> 00:19:32,839
Duly noted, Sergeant.
280
00:19:32,922 --> 00:19:34,674
I believe that regulations
also apply...
281
00:19:34,757 --> 00:19:36,593
to removing
the door entirely, Colonel.
282
00:19:36,676 --> 00:19:38,720
Also duly noted.
283
00:19:40,847 --> 00:19:42,516
Fire when ready.
284
00:19:43,684 --> 00:19:47,020
Backblast area clear!
On the way, sir.
285
00:19:47,104 --> 00:19:48,606
Fire.
286
00:19:56,697 --> 00:19:59,742
Come on straight... Hold!
287
00:19:59,826 --> 00:20:01,703
You wrecked a door?
288
00:20:03,163 --> 00:20:06,291
Colonel, the ammunition
that was used on the last test...
289
00:20:06,374 --> 00:20:08,877
on the Bradley is the same
as we used on this door.
290
00:20:08,961 --> 00:20:11,964
Romanian, arguably the most
ineffective ammunition...
291
00:20:12,047 --> 00:20:14,633
in the world. No wonder the Bradley
come through with flying color.
292
00:20:14,717 --> 00:20:16,343
- Well this is serious.
- It is!
293
00:20:16,427 --> 00:20:18,554
Yes, you destroyed a door.
294
00:20:18,637 --> 00:20:21,974
Colonel, we're talking about a test
on an armoured personnel carrier...
295
00:20:22,058 --> 00:20:24,185
a vehicle that will carry soldiers
into combat.
296
00:20:24,268 --> 00:20:26,604
Right, but this door is property
of the United States government.
297
00:20:26,688 --> 00:20:28,523
- I assume you knew that.
- The shell...
298
00:20:28,606 --> 00:20:30,150
barely penetrated the door.
299
00:20:30,233 --> 00:20:31,735
Okay, but it's all bent out of shape.
300
00:20:31,818 --> 00:20:33,403
How are you going
to get it back on its hinges?
301
00:20:33,487 --> 00:20:35,656
Well, right now I'm not really
worried about putting it back...
302
00:20:35,739 --> 00:20:37,866
Yes, but this door protects
our ammunition.
303
00:20:37,950 --> 00:20:40,369
The ammunition doesn't work!
304
00:20:40,452 --> 00:20:43,330
But we need the ammunition
for our tests.
305
00:20:43,414 --> 00:20:47,794
Look, I'll buy the Army
a new goddamn door.
306
00:20:47,877 --> 00:20:51,548
You can't afford a door like that.
Did you see what it stood up to?
307
00:20:51,631 --> 00:20:55,510
Exactly! Some spitball from Romania!
308
00:20:55,593 --> 00:20:57,846
It was my understanding
that only Soviet arms...
309
00:20:57,929 --> 00:20:59,931
would be used in these tests.
310
00:21:00,015 --> 00:21:05,270
Well, yes, and Romania
is one of the Soviet blocs...
311
00:21:06,814 --> 00:21:08,607
- Isn't it?
- Colonel Burton...
312
00:21:08,691 --> 00:21:11,152
we've been testing
the Bradley for some time now.
313
00:21:11,235 --> 00:21:14,572
You may not be aware
of some steps we've taken.
314
00:21:14,655 --> 00:21:16,658
The Romanian rocket is only 73mm.
315
00:21:16,741 --> 00:21:19,285
That's less than
the 85mm Russian version.
316
00:21:19,369 --> 00:21:21,830
A smaller diameter means
a smaller explosion...
317
00:21:21,913 --> 00:21:23,707
a smaller holes and less shrapnel.
318
00:21:23,790 --> 00:21:25,333
We're interested
in conducting balistic tests...
319
00:21:25,417 --> 00:21:28,212
using all short of ammunition
of varying diameters...
320
00:21:28,295 --> 00:21:31,840
to determine the exact threshold
of the Bradley's tolerance.
321
00:21:31,924 --> 00:21:35,261
So far it's held up against
everything we've thrown at it, sir.
322
00:21:35,344 --> 00:21:36,929
Soviet, Romanian.
323
00:21:37,013 --> 00:21:38,598
Latvian, Lithuanian...
324
00:21:38,681 --> 00:21:40,141
Like a rock.
325
00:21:44,521 --> 00:21:46,648
My apologies.
326
00:21:46,731 --> 00:21:48,525
You're new to the project.
327
00:21:48,608 --> 00:21:50,277
There's a lot to catch up on.
328
00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:54,364
You're right. So if you'll get me
the test reports...
329
00:21:54,448 --> 00:21:56,658
- I can catch right up.
- How's that, Colonel?
330
00:21:56,742 --> 00:21:58,994
Send me the data,
I'll do my homework...
331
00:21:59,078 --> 00:22:00,579
and we can push this thing
right through.
332
00:22:00,663 --> 00:22:03,165
We've got five years of test reports
on this model alone, sir.
333
00:22:03,249 --> 00:22:06,377
- We have a schedule to maintain.
- And let's keep to it.
334
00:22:06,461 --> 00:22:10,048
Get the Bradley into production,
ASAP, what do you say?
335
00:22:11,174 --> 00:22:12,550
Thank you, gentlemen.
336
00:22:21,435 --> 00:22:23,646
I have SINCON recruiting it.
This could blow the whole deal.
337
00:22:23,729 --> 00:22:25,648
I'm telling you, sir, you've got
to nip this in the bud...
338
00:22:25,731 --> 00:22:26,774
like you did with the last guy.
339
00:22:26,857 --> 00:22:29,026
- Don't worry about it.
- Sir, he wants to see the reports.
340
00:22:29,110 --> 00:22:30,945
- How're we going to stop it.
- Just give him the reports.
341
00:22:31,028 --> 00:22:33,156
Are you out of your mind?
I'm not going to show him...
342
00:22:33,239 --> 00:22:35,241
- a single page.
- Now listen to me.
343
00:22:35,325 --> 00:22:37,911
Listen very carefully.
344
00:22:37,994 --> 00:22:40,914
Give him everything he wants.
345
00:22:40,997 --> 00:22:43,041
Every single piece of paper.
346
00:22:43,125 --> 00:22:44,793
Everything.
347
00:22:59,976 --> 00:23:02,687
- Sergeant?
- Here, sir.
348
00:23:05,315 --> 00:23:06,566
What the heck is all this?
349
00:23:06,650 --> 00:23:08,527
Everything you ever wanted
to know about the Bradley...
350
00:23:08,610 --> 00:23:09,820
and weren't afraid to ask.
351
00:23:09,903 --> 00:23:12,531
Every memo
on every last nut and bolt.
352
00:23:13,574 --> 00:23:16,911
I wonder which national forest
lay down its life for this project.
353
00:23:16,994 --> 00:23:18,996
- You read any of this stuff?
- Not yet, sir.
354
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,499
I was hoping you'd show up
with the Cliff Notes.
355
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,546
- I hardly know where to start.
- Maybe that's the whole idea.
356
00:23:28,173 --> 00:23:31,384
- I don't get it.
- What?
357
00:23:31,468 --> 00:23:33,553
- That.
- It's the Bradley.
358
00:23:34,596 --> 00:23:37,766
Well, if that's the Bradley...
359
00:23:37,850 --> 00:23:39,643
then what's this?
360
00:23:39,727 --> 00:23:43,355
- What's the date?
- 1968.
361
00:23:43,439 --> 00:23:46,984
The question is,
how did they get to that...
362
00:23:47,068 --> 00:23:48,986
from this?
363
00:23:56,661 --> 00:24:00,957
Gentlemen, our mission
was to design and implement...
364
00:24:01,041 --> 00:24:04,670
an infantry transport vehicle
that would be a worthy replacement...
365
00:24:04,753 --> 00:24:07,965
for the M-113 armoured
personnel carrier.
366
00:24:08,048 --> 00:24:10,551
We have met that objective
and then some.
367
00:24:11,886 --> 00:24:14,263
The Bradley
armoured personnel carrier...
368
00:24:14,347 --> 00:24:18,726
will bring troops to a combat zone
swiftly, efficiently, and safely.
369
00:24:18,810 --> 00:24:22,564
It will hold 11 men plus a driver...
370
00:24:22,647 --> 00:24:25,442
and features a 20mm cannon...
371
00:24:25,525 --> 00:24:29,446
which will provide ample firepower
and at the same time flexibility.
372
00:24:29,530 --> 00:24:32,908
Lightly armoured, speedy,
and solidly engineered...
373
00:24:32,992 --> 00:24:34,618
our troops will arrive
at the battlefield...
374
00:24:34,702 --> 00:24:37,329
in the finest American technology
has to offer.
375
00:24:37,413 --> 00:24:40,583
And at a million and a half per,
a real bargain.
376
00:24:40,666 --> 00:24:42,168
Nice work, Colonel!
377
00:24:42,251 --> 00:24:43,628
Outstanding!
378
00:24:43,711 --> 00:24:45,713
Damn impressive!
379
00:24:47,424 --> 00:24:50,343
In other words, it was design
to be a big taxicab...
380
00:24:50,427 --> 00:24:52,846
drive guys to the battlefield
and go back home.
381
00:24:56,683 --> 00:25:01,021
But how did it
end up with a turret on top?
382
00:25:07,236 --> 00:25:09,739
This is all well and good,
Colonel Smith, but...
383
00:25:09,822 --> 00:25:12,033
- Something wrong, General?
- With this gorilla in production...
384
00:25:12,117 --> 00:25:13,618
I don't supposed there's going
to be anything left...
385
00:25:13,702 --> 00:25:15,954
- in the budget for my scout.
- I doubt it, Bob.
386
00:25:16,037 --> 00:25:17,456
You don't need scouts.
387
00:25:17,539 --> 00:25:20,250
You have radar, air-recon,
satellites.
388
00:25:20,334 --> 00:25:23,087
You always need a scout,
and you know what I'm thinking...
389
00:25:23,170 --> 00:25:25,255
why couldn't this thing serve
as a scout?
390
00:25:25,339 --> 00:25:27,174
But it's a troop carrier, General.
391
00:25:27,258 --> 00:25:29,802
But this is a speedy vehicle.
Why can't it be both?
392
00:25:29,885 --> 00:25:31,971
Well, for one thing, it's too big.
393
00:25:32,054 --> 00:25:33,681
And for the other,
you can't really see...
394
00:25:33,765 --> 00:25:35,266
out all that much from inside.
395
00:25:35,350 --> 00:25:38,561
- Sounds like a design flaw to me.
- Design flaw? No...
396
00:25:38,645 --> 00:25:43,108
We'll just stick a turret on top
with lots of opticals.
397
00:25:43,191 --> 00:25:45,152
But then, sir, it'll be even bigger.
398
00:25:45,235 --> 00:25:49,323
Well, what's your problem, Smith?
Not elegant enough for you?
399
00:25:51,575 --> 00:25:53,160
Well, the thing is, General...
400
00:25:53,244 --> 00:25:56,664
it's hard to do a "sneak and peek"
when you're over ten feet tall.
401
00:25:56,747 --> 00:25:59,500
- He's got a point, Bob.
- All I know is, we need a scout.
402
00:25:59,584 --> 00:26:02,170
This is fast enough to do the job
and it's funded.
403
00:26:02,253 --> 00:26:04,380
Well, actually,
we're a hair over budget.
404
00:26:04,464 --> 00:26:07,467
You turn the Bradley into a scout
and we're going to be...
405
00:26:07,551 --> 00:26:09,302
selling them off
to some el presidente...
406
00:26:09,386 --> 00:26:10,804
in Chimichanga in no time!
407
00:26:10,887 --> 00:26:13,056
Anything for surveillance
ends up south of the border...
408
00:26:13,140 --> 00:26:14,558
before the paint even dries.
409
00:26:14,641 --> 00:26:16,560
When you needed
that anti-aircraft gun...
410
00:26:16,644 --> 00:26:17,811
who backed you up on that?
411
00:26:17,895 --> 00:26:21,065
- You did, Bob.
- Who testified to Appropriations...
412
00:26:21,148 --> 00:26:23,609
- on behalf of that gun?
- You did, Bob.
413
00:26:23,693 --> 00:26:25,737
I'm talking to Appropriations
next week.
414
00:26:25,820 --> 00:26:28,823
Now do I sell you on my scout
or do I not?
415
00:26:28,907 --> 00:26:30,825
You did, Bob.
416
00:26:30,909 --> 00:26:33,328
And how about some portholes
along the side...
417
00:26:33,411 --> 00:26:34,663
for individual firearms?
418
00:26:34,746 --> 00:26:37,249
So the fellas can stick out
their guns and shoot people!
419
00:26:37,332 --> 00:26:39,960
Good. And you know what, Colonel?
420
00:26:40,043 --> 00:26:41,920
We already have the turret.
421
00:26:42,004 --> 00:26:44,465
We ought to get the biggest bang
we can up there.
422
00:26:44,548 --> 00:26:46,008
I'm sorry, bang, sir?
423
00:26:46,092 --> 00:26:49,053
You can't hurt anybody
with that pansy-ass gun!
424
00:26:49,136 --> 00:26:51,347
Add on some firepower!
425
00:26:54,309 --> 00:26:55,894
Where am I supposed
to fit the extra ammo?
426
00:26:55,977 --> 00:26:58,438
I don't know.
Can't you just shift things around.
427
00:26:58,521 --> 00:27:00,440
- Make some room.
- We already got 4,400 rounds...
428
00:27:00,524 --> 00:27:03,110
of machine gun ammo,
and you want to add 25mm shells?
429
00:27:03,193 --> 00:27:05,028
- The General wants his ammo.
- He can't have his ammo...
430
00:27:05,112 --> 00:27:07,072
unless he runs along,
shut this thing carrying it.
431
00:27:07,156 --> 00:27:09,158
- Well, can you squeeze it in?
- No.
432
00:27:09,241 --> 00:27:11,494
Come on! Just squeeze it in!
433
00:27:11,577 --> 00:27:14,538
We're not trying on Levi's here,
Colonel.
434
00:27:14,622 --> 00:27:16,999
Are you telling me that
in a vehicle this size...
435
00:27:17,083 --> 00:27:19,961
you can't fit a few rounds
of ammunition?
436
00:27:20,044 --> 00:27:22,839
Not in its current configuration,
no, sir.
437
00:27:22,922 --> 00:27:27,594
So, the configuration's wrong.
There must be something you can dump.
438
00:27:27,677 --> 00:27:31,056
- Dump, sir?
- Something you don't need.
439
00:27:31,139 --> 00:27:33,559
General, the interior is very spare.
440
00:27:33,642 --> 00:27:35,936
Besides the ammunition and the men...
441
00:27:36,020 --> 00:27:39,565
Maybe leave one of the fellas behind.
Put the ammo where the men go.
442
00:27:41,108 --> 00:27:42,193
Sir...
443
00:27:44,904 --> 00:27:47,824
It is a troop carrier.
444
00:27:47,907 --> 00:27:51,536
So, make a couple of extra trips,
what's the difference?
445
00:27:57,251 --> 00:28:00,212
They want a transport
that doesn't carry men...
446
00:28:00,296 --> 00:28:03,132
and a scout that's got a cannon
as big as a tank's on it.
447
00:28:03,215 --> 00:28:06,177
- And portholes.
- Great, portholes!
448
00:28:06,260 --> 00:28:09,013
So the guys can shoot at whatever
they can't hit with their cannon.
449
00:28:09,097 --> 00:28:11,391
You don't have to buy the damn thing,
Jones, just draw it.
450
00:28:28,492 --> 00:28:32,121
- That's one hell of a cannon.
- That's the problem.
451
00:28:33,915 --> 00:28:35,208
Why?
452
00:28:35,291 --> 00:28:37,126
You go out on a battlefield
with this pecker sticking out...
453
00:28:37,210 --> 00:28:38,837
of your turret, and the enemy
is going to unload on you...
454
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,130
with all they got.
455
00:28:40,213 --> 00:28:43,133
Might as well, paint a big
red bull's eye on the side.
456
00:28:43,216 --> 00:28:47,054
But it's a troop carrier,
not a tank.
457
00:28:47,137 --> 00:28:49,223
Do you want me to put a sign on it
in 50 languages...
458
00:28:49,306 --> 00:28:52,434
"I am a troop carrier, not a tank,
please don't shoot at me"?
459
00:28:58,691 --> 00:29:01,069
This was going to be so beautiful.
460
00:29:04,072 --> 00:29:06,574
- That's good work, Smith.
- Looks perfect to me.
461
00:29:06,658 --> 00:29:08,577
- Thank you, sir.
- The thing is...
462
00:29:08,660 --> 00:29:10,162
Yes, General?
463
00:29:10,245 --> 00:29:13,206
Looks a little like a tank
with that cannon on top.
464
00:29:13,290 --> 00:29:15,000
Probably going to draw more fire.
465
00:29:15,083 --> 00:29:17,252
Actually, sir,
that has come to our attention.
466
00:29:17,336 --> 00:29:21,257
We know it's not a tank,
but will the other side?
467
00:29:21,340 --> 00:29:23,217
I guess we could always
thicken the armour.
468
00:29:23,301 --> 00:29:25,052
Toughened up the hide a bit.
469
00:29:25,136 --> 00:29:29,974
Colonel Smith, could you explain
why you put those portholes there?
470
00:29:30,058 --> 00:29:31,976
Yes, sir, as per your request...
471
00:29:32,060 --> 00:29:35,689
so the men can shoot out
at the enemy.
472
00:29:35,772 --> 00:29:38,859
- You're joking, aren't you?
- Besides portholes?
473
00:29:38,942 --> 00:29:41,153
What are we now? The navy?
474
00:29:44,406 --> 00:29:48,202
Say... you think you could
make this thing amphibious?
475
00:29:48,285 --> 00:29:50,121
You know, get the troops
across a river?
476
00:29:50,204 --> 00:29:52,081
No.
477
00:29:52,165 --> 00:29:53,541
No, sir. No.
478
00:29:53,624 --> 00:29:55,585
No.
479
00:29:55,668 --> 00:29:59,422
Amphibious?
The Bradley's supposed to swim?
480
00:29:59,506 --> 00:30:01,299
In theory, at least.
481
00:30:01,383 --> 00:30:05,053
Amphibious troop carrier
slash scout...
482
00:30:05,137 --> 00:30:06,388
Slash tank.
483
00:30:06,471 --> 00:30:09,558
A couple more months,
I bet they can get this thing to fly.
484
00:30:09,642 --> 00:30:11,393
What's this in the margin?
485
00:30:11,477 --> 00:30:13,687
"Please help me...
486
00:30:13,771 --> 00:30:16,983
I am losing my mind...
487
00:30:17,066 --> 00:30:19,318
RLS."
488
00:30:23,948 --> 00:30:25,825
Lieutenant Colonel
Robert Laurel Smith...
489
00:30:25,909 --> 00:30:27,828
head of oversight and development.
490
00:30:31,957 --> 00:30:34,084
Aluminium.
491
00:30:34,168 --> 00:30:38,088
This thing's got an aluminium skin.
492
00:30:38,172 --> 00:30:40,383
Anything an enemy tank fired at it
is going to through it...
493
00:30:40,466 --> 00:30:42,343
like a hot knife through butter.
494
00:30:42,426 --> 00:30:45,012
We're doing this back on using
steel rather than aluminium.
495
00:30:45,096 --> 00:30:48,558
Of course, steel is
much heavier than aluminium...
496
00:30:48,641 --> 00:30:50,769
so it won't go as fast.
497
00:30:50,852 --> 00:30:51,978
No, we can't lose speed...
498
00:30:52,062 --> 00:30:53,855
we lose speed,
it won't work as a scout vehichle.
499
00:30:53,939 --> 00:30:55,941
It won't keep pace with tanks,
either.
500
00:30:56,024 --> 00:30:59,486
Think armour's a reactive measure.
Let's think proactive here.
501
00:30:59,570 --> 00:31:02,448
I say equip the thing
with anti-tank missiles...
502
00:31:02,531 --> 00:31:05,910
then it can blast those enemy tanks
before they get a chance to fire.
503
00:31:05,993 --> 00:31:07,453
What do you think, Colonel?
504
00:31:08,663 --> 00:31:10,081
Fine.
505
00:31:11,749 --> 00:31:14,002
- Anti-tank missiles?
- I don't know.
506
00:31:14,085 --> 00:31:15,170
Just where would I put them?
507
00:31:15,253 --> 00:31:17,088
The men will have to wear
the missiles as hats!
508
00:31:17,172 --> 00:31:20,675
I don't know, Jones.
That's why you get paid big bucks.
509
00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:22,803
Colonel, there's no room,
we're not talking about...
510
00:31:22,886 --> 00:31:25,806
About a pair of Levi's. I know!
511
00:31:25,889 --> 00:31:28,267
God damn it!
512
00:31:28,350 --> 00:31:31,937
What we are are talking about is
11 years with nothing to show for it!
513
00:31:32,021 --> 00:31:34,315
Except an ulcer the size
of the district of Columbia...
514
00:31:34,398 --> 00:31:37,360
and a career on permanent hold!
515
00:31:37,443 --> 00:31:38,820
You see this?
516
00:31:38,903 --> 00:31:41,030
I've been...
I've been a bird colonel so long...
517
00:31:41,114 --> 00:31:43,074
I swear I'm growing feathers!
518
00:31:45,118 --> 00:31:47,412
Now if you have to design hats...
519
00:31:47,496 --> 00:31:50,541
to haul those goddamn missiles,
then just do it.
520
00:32:16,777 --> 00:32:18,195
Excuse me, sir...
521
00:32:20,948 --> 00:32:25,661
Ladies and gentlemen,
if I can have your attention, please.
522
00:32:25,745 --> 00:32:27,663
If you'd all just take your seats.
523
00:32:28,831 --> 00:32:30,166
Thank you.
524
00:32:33,253 --> 00:32:38,759
We are pleased to present
a scale model...
525
00:32:38,842 --> 00:32:43,013
of the new Bradley fighting vehicle.
526
00:33:13,170 --> 00:33:19,093
Featuring scout, troop transport,
and anti-tank capabilities...
527
00:33:20,887 --> 00:33:22,847
It carries six men.
528
00:33:22,931 --> 00:33:24,933
How many was it supposed to carry?
529
00:33:25,016 --> 00:33:27,519
- 11.
- The Bradley is outfitted...
530
00:33:27,602 --> 00:33:31,356
with sophisticated surveillance
equipment ever developed.
531
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,277
It is also equipped
with a rapid-fire cannon...
532
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,237
and an anti-tank rocket launcher.
533
00:33:37,321 --> 00:33:38,989
Which means it's loaded with...
534
00:33:39,073 --> 00:33:43,578
1,500 shells
and ten TOW anti-tank missiles.
535
00:33:43,661 --> 00:33:48,416
So in summation, gentlemen,
what you have before you is...
536
00:33:48,499 --> 00:33:51,586
A troop transport
that can't carry troops...
537
00:33:51,669 --> 00:33:54,089
a reconnaissance vehicle
that's too conspicuous...
538
00:33:54,172 --> 00:33:55,507
to do reconnaissance...
539
00:33:55,590 --> 00:34:00,095
And a quasi-tank that has
less armour than a snow-blower
540
00:34:00,179 --> 00:34:02,848
but has enough ammo
to take out half of DC.
541
00:34:02,931 --> 00:34:06,852
- Fantastic.
- Congratulations, General Smith.
542
00:34:06,936 --> 00:34:09,021
- General?
- Hell of a job!
543
00:34:09,105 --> 00:34:10,857
General?
544
00:34:10,940 --> 00:34:13,610
Let's build it.
545
00:34:13,693 --> 00:34:15,612
They're building it?
546
00:34:15,695 --> 00:34:18,406
This is what we're building?
547
00:34:35,341 --> 00:34:36,509
Please be seated.
548
00:34:36,592 --> 00:34:39,554
This will be brief,
as I'm needed at the Oval Office.
549
00:34:39,637 --> 00:34:42,849
I want to call your attention
this morning's New York Times.
550
00:34:42,932 --> 00:34:46,353
If you'd be so kind to turn
to the editorial page.
551
00:34:46,436 --> 00:34:48,855
It essentially says
that every weapon we produce...
552
00:34:48,939 --> 00:34:50,649
is overpriced piece of junk.
553
00:34:50,732 --> 00:34:54,194
Now, that's not news.
Critics have said it for years.
554
00:34:54,278 --> 00:34:55,946
What was news to me...
555
00:34:56,030 --> 00:35:00,910
touched on our supposedly spectacular
"Sergeant York" anti-aircraft gun.
556
00:35:00,993 --> 00:35:03,496
It says there
when the Sergeant York proved...
557
00:35:03,579 --> 00:35:05,957
incapable of hitting airplanes...
558
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,085
we test-fired it
at hovering helicopters.
559
00:35:09,169 --> 00:35:11,463
When it failed to hit
hovering helicopters...
560
00:35:11,546 --> 00:35:14,883
we fired at stationary targets
and it missed those.
561
00:35:14,966 --> 00:35:18,887
Now is this possible, General Keane?
562
00:35:18,971 --> 00:35:21,932
There was a problem
with the proximity fusing.
563
00:35:22,016 --> 00:35:23,392
According to this...
564
00:35:23,476 --> 00:35:26,854
one missile locked on
to a ventilation fan in the latrine!
565
00:35:26,938 --> 00:35:29,565
And destroyed the latrine.
566
00:35:29,649 --> 00:35:31,943
Were we test-firing at latrines
that day?
567
00:35:32,026 --> 00:35:34,446
My first sergeant was in that latrine
at the time...
568
00:35:34,529 --> 00:35:36,698
and I can assure you,
he's around to swear otherwise.
569
00:35:36,781 --> 00:35:39,451
Why am I learning about this thing
in the newspaper?
570
00:35:39,534 --> 00:35:43,956
It makes me look foolish,
and I am not a foolish man.
571
00:35:44,039 --> 00:35:45,624
General Cushing,
are you having any problems...
572
00:35:45,708 --> 00:35:47,668
with the Maverick missile
you're testing?
573
00:35:47,751 --> 00:35:49,170
No, sir.
574
00:35:49,253 --> 00:35:51,505
Admiral Morehouse,
any problems with the 812?
575
00:35:51,589 --> 00:35:54,550
- None whatsoever, sir.
- General Partridge...
576
00:35:54,634 --> 00:35:56,886
- Sir!
- Any problems with the Bradley?
577
00:35:56,970 --> 00:35:59,389
No, sir, absolutely not.
578
00:35:59,472 --> 00:36:02,058
Production is imminent.
579
00:36:02,142 --> 00:36:06,355
Mr Secretary, I believe
the press is on a wild-goose chase...
580
00:36:06,438 --> 00:36:09,024
looking for problems
where none exist.
581
00:36:09,107 --> 00:36:11,902
Let's hope you're right, General.
Because there are people...
582
00:36:11,985 --> 00:36:14,446
in this administration
who do have problems.
583
00:36:14,530 --> 00:36:18,534
Terrorists in Lebanon,
and Colonel Qadhafi in Libya...
584
00:36:18,618 --> 00:36:20,828
and Sandinistas in Nicaragua...
585
00:36:20,912 --> 00:36:22,664
and let's not forget
our ongoing problems...
586
00:36:22,747 --> 00:36:24,916
with the Soviet Union.
587
00:36:24,999 --> 00:36:31,047
Frankly, I don't appreciate calls
from reporters and congressmen...
588
00:36:31,131 --> 00:36:36,178
asking me why nothing
we are working on works...
589
00:36:36,261 --> 00:36:38,222
and I can't answer them
because the men in charge...
590
00:36:38,305 --> 00:36:43,602
of developing these systems
tell me everything is just peachy!
591
00:36:43,686 --> 00:36:47,273
So, if you don't have problems, good.
592
00:36:47,356 --> 00:36:49,275
If you do, get rid of them.
593
00:36:49,359 --> 00:36:54,281
I want these weapons built.
If not by you, I'll find men who can.
594
00:37:15,470 --> 00:37:17,096
You wanted to see me, sir?
595
00:37:17,180 --> 00:37:18,431
Yes, I do.
596
00:37:18,515 --> 00:37:20,684
Close the damn door, come on.
597
00:37:20,767 --> 00:37:23,603
About these tests you've been
thinking about...
598
00:37:23,687 --> 00:37:25,897
conducting on the Bradley.
599
00:37:25,981 --> 00:37:28,233
I understand your concern...
600
00:37:28,317 --> 00:37:29,526
but if you knew the vehicle
as I do...
601
00:37:29,610 --> 00:37:32,738
if you were an armoured warfare
expert instead of a flier...
602
00:37:32,822 --> 00:37:35,866
you won't be concern to understand
the Bradley is a good vehicle.
603
00:37:35,950 --> 00:37:39,746
4,000 Americans will be employed
building it, the Army wants it.
604
00:37:39,829 --> 00:37:41,497
Once you've had the chance
to read the files...
605
00:37:41,581 --> 00:37:44,084
I've read the files, sir.
606
00:37:44,167 --> 00:37:46,753
200 pages on the rear door...
607
00:37:46,836 --> 00:37:50,173
250 pages on the paint job...
608
00:37:50,257 --> 00:37:52,217
computer simulations
of combat conditions...
609
00:37:52,301 --> 00:37:54,553
not a single test that actually
indicates what might happen...
610
00:37:54,636 --> 00:37:56,347
if the Bradley takes a hit.
611
00:37:57,473 --> 00:38:00,810
Which is why I've ordered
a full-up live fire test.
612
00:38:02,061 --> 00:38:05,189
I want to equip a Bradley
with all the ammunition...
613
00:38:05,273 --> 00:38:07,317
it would take into battle...
614
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,363
fill all the fuel tanks, and hit it
with a Soviet anti-tank weapon...
615
00:38:11,446 --> 00:38:14,950
- to see how it'll hold up.
- Cancel it.
616
00:38:15,033 --> 00:38:16,201
- Sir?
- I think we're having...
617
00:38:16,284 --> 00:38:19,037
a communication meltdown here,
Colonel.
618
00:38:19,121 --> 00:38:20,873
Whatever problems there are,
we'll fix them.
619
00:38:20,956 --> 00:38:23,542
In the field, after they're deployed.
620
00:38:23,626 --> 00:38:25,002
- But General...
- That's the way things are done...
621
00:38:25,085 --> 00:38:27,838
around here, Colonel.
That's the way we're going to do it.
622
00:38:27,922 --> 00:38:30,174
Nobody takes your job
more seriously than I do...
623
00:38:30,258 --> 00:38:32,176
but I also have a job.
624
00:38:32,260 --> 00:38:34,345
I got to get that Bradley deploy.
625
00:38:34,429 --> 00:38:37,933
I want that rocket launcher
pointed at the Soviets.
626
00:38:41,812 --> 00:38:43,272
Here.
627
00:38:43,355 --> 00:38:44,690
Jesus.
628
00:38:44,773 --> 00:38:46,191
Dismissed.
629
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,697
- Afternoon.
- Good afternoon, sir.
630
00:38:53,908 --> 00:38:57,161
- Fanning!
- Yes, sir?
631
00:38:57,245 --> 00:39:01,666
- What happened to you?
- Don't ask. What's this?
632
00:39:01,750 --> 00:39:04,002
It was on your desk
when I got back from lunch.
633
00:39:16,974 --> 00:39:20,311
"Some ammunition
for your Bradley battle."
634
00:39:27,652 --> 00:39:29,404
It's a British Army test report.
635
00:39:30,906 --> 00:39:32,866
Top secret too.
636
00:39:32,949 --> 00:39:34,743
Until it landed here.
637
00:39:54,681 --> 00:39:57,392
General Smith, Jim Burton.
638
00:40:00,562 --> 00:40:02,231
How did you find me?
639
00:40:03,357 --> 00:40:06,944
You have
very distinctive handwriting.
640
00:40:09,155 --> 00:40:15,119
I've been reading memos
on the Bradley going back to 1968...
641
00:40:15,203 --> 00:40:19,290
with your handwritten notes
in the margin, or...
642
00:40:19,374 --> 00:40:20,834
Initialled by you.
643
00:40:22,335 --> 00:40:25,630
- This handwriting?
- We should not be seen talking.
644
00:40:36,058 --> 00:40:38,644
Look, you contacted me, General.
645
00:40:38,728 --> 00:40:42,690
No. You received an anonymous leak
about which I know nothing.
646
00:40:42,774 --> 00:40:45,151
So the British found out
that aluminium armor burns...
647
00:40:45,235 --> 00:40:47,529
and gives off a toxic gas
when hit by a shell.
648
00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:51,283
Bad news for men in aluminium
armoured vehicles enough said.
649
00:40:51,366 --> 00:40:52,492
Couldn't we...
650
00:40:52,576 --> 00:40:55,287
Couldn't we sit down
somewhere and actually talk?
651
00:41:03,337 --> 00:41:04,839
Are you out of your mind, Colonel?
652
00:41:04,922 --> 00:41:06,924
If the Pentagon had their choice
of busting us...
653
00:41:07,008 --> 00:41:10,303
or nailing a Soviet spy
they would choose us in a heartbeat.
654
00:41:10,386 --> 00:41:13,515
Who exactly is "us", General?
655
00:41:13,598 --> 00:41:15,392
There are some people who work
in the Pentagon...
656
00:41:15,475 --> 00:41:18,270
who are fed up watching billions
of dollars thrown away...
657
00:41:18,353 --> 00:41:20,564
on defective weapons
upon which our troops...
658
00:41:20,647 --> 00:41:23,484
are supposed
to stake their lives.
659
00:41:23,567 --> 00:41:26,320
People like you, Colonel.
We are the enemy.
660
00:41:26,403 --> 00:41:29,115
- To whom?
- To majors who want to be colonels.
661
00:41:29,198 --> 00:41:30,366
To colonels
who want to be generals...
662
00:41:30,449 --> 00:41:31,868
the generals
who want that four stars...
663
00:41:31,951 --> 00:41:33,661
you bet we are the enemy.
664
00:41:33,745 --> 00:41:35,747
Nobody moves up,
without getting things done.
665
00:41:35,830 --> 00:41:38,041
So what you don't want to be
is the one who drops the ball...
666
00:41:38,124 --> 00:41:41,962
because if you drop the ball,
no promotion, no star...
667
00:41:42,045 --> 00:41:45,257
no cushy job with a contractor
when you retire.
668
00:41:45,340 --> 00:41:47,259
Which is why, Colonel,
any and everyone attached...
669
00:41:47,342 --> 00:41:50,971
to the Bradley will see to it.
To stop your tests.
670
00:41:53,766 --> 00:41:59,272
General, I appreciate your interests
if not your methods.
671
00:41:59,355 --> 00:42:01,983
Whatever disagreements
I may or may not be having...
672
00:42:02,066 --> 00:42:06,613
over the Bradley
will be resolved above board.
673
00:42:06,696 --> 00:42:09,866
Now, if you have something to say...
674
00:42:09,950 --> 00:42:15,331
I'm sure the Washington Post
would love to talk to you.
675
00:42:15,414 --> 00:42:18,959
Me? The press? Are you crazy?
The Army is my life.
676
00:42:19,043 --> 00:42:20,920
Like you, Colonel,
I work inside the system...
677
00:42:21,003 --> 00:42:23,047
and you don't have a prayer
in hell of running your tests...
678
00:42:23,131 --> 00:42:25,967
not unless you're willing
to sacrifice your career.
679
00:42:26,050 --> 00:42:28,470
And if you think you're safe
because Congress gave you your job...
680
00:42:28,553 --> 00:42:30,055
you better think again.
681
00:42:31,097 --> 00:42:33,433
Good day, Colonel. And good luck.
682
00:42:36,311 --> 00:42:38,981
So why did you send me that report?
683
00:42:39,064 --> 00:42:40,399
Sir.
684
00:42:44,779 --> 00:42:46,572
- Nice to see you, General.
- Good to see you.
685
00:42:57,584 --> 00:42:59,461
- Evening, sir.
- Evening, sir.
686
00:43:03,340 --> 00:43:05,551
So she leaned over to me
and whispered, "Why do you think...
687
00:43:05,634 --> 00:43:08,012
the General always stands
at attention?"
688
00:43:12,266 --> 00:43:14,977
Sorry to distrub you, sir,
but Major Sayers is in the library.
689
00:43:15,061 --> 00:43:16,187
Tell Major Sayers I'm busy.
690
00:43:16,270 --> 00:43:18,356
I'm sorry sir, but he said
to tell you the little prick...
691
00:43:18,439 --> 00:43:20,358
- ordered tests on the Bradley.
- What?
692
00:43:20,442 --> 00:43:22,610
I'll have his ass in a sling so fast.
693
00:43:22,694 --> 00:43:25,071
Whose ass, sir? Major Sayers
or the little prick?
694
00:43:26,448 --> 00:43:29,618
General, he knows about
the study that the Brits did.
695
00:43:29,701 --> 00:43:31,286
- What study?
- Brits did a study on aluminium.
696
00:43:31,370 --> 00:43:33,664
That would be the same aluminium
sheeting used on the Bradley, sir.
697
00:43:33,747 --> 00:43:35,207
When hit by a shell,
it has the tendency to burn...
698
00:43:35,291 --> 00:43:36,876
and when it burns,
it gives off a toxic gas.
699
00:43:36,959 --> 00:43:38,544
God damn it.
700
00:43:38,628 --> 00:43:40,922
We fought a revolution so we wouldn't
have to pay any attention...
701
00:43:41,005 --> 00:43:42,465
to the fucking British!
702
00:43:42,548 --> 00:43:44,259
So why they mess things up now?
703
00:43:44,342 --> 00:43:46,845
- I thought you talked to him.
- I did.
704
00:43:46,928 --> 00:43:49,764
- The man must be a fool.
- Can't you stop him, sir?
705
00:43:49,848 --> 00:43:52,059
No, I'm not his commanding officer.
706
00:43:52,142 --> 00:43:55,854
Some draft-dodging junior congressman
decided we needed more objectivity...
707
00:43:55,938 --> 00:43:59,775
in the testing process.
Goddamn checks and balances.
708
00:43:59,858 --> 00:44:02,987
General, with all due respect,
this isn't just a check, sir...
709
00:44:03,070 --> 00:44:04,989
it's more of
a full fucking body block!
710
00:44:05,072 --> 00:44:07,492
If we don't get the Bradley
out there now...
711
00:44:07,575 --> 00:44:09,786
it'll be stuck
in development forever.
712
00:44:13,873 --> 00:44:16,459
Start production now.
713
00:44:16,543 --> 00:44:19,921
Throw Burton a bone or two.
Let him run a couple of tests.
714
00:44:20,005 --> 00:44:23,300
Yes, sir. General, actually,
he'd like to blow it up.
715
00:44:23,384 --> 00:44:25,469
I don't give a flying fuck
what Burton wants.
716
00:44:25,552 --> 00:44:27,930
Let him do some piddly-shit stuff,
take it for a test drive!
717
00:44:28,013 --> 00:44:30,057
See if he can parallel park
that fucker!
718
00:44:30,141 --> 00:44:32,310
Just get it into production.
719
00:44:44,531 --> 00:44:47,618
Am I to understand
that you were not in favour...
720
00:44:47,701 --> 00:44:50,120
of the tests Colonel Burton proposed?
721
00:44:50,204 --> 00:44:51,622
Absolutely not.
722
00:44:52,873 --> 00:44:57,962
Absolutely not, yes,
or absolutely not, no?
723
00:44:58,045 --> 00:45:00,298
Absolutely not absolutely.
724
00:45:00,381 --> 00:45:03,218
Are you questioning
his motives or his methods, General?
725
00:45:03,301 --> 00:45:06,846
I have no reason to question
Colonel Burton's motives.
726
00:45:06,930 --> 00:45:09,307
I can only speak to his methods.
727
00:45:09,391 --> 00:45:15,439
Which, by anyone's definition
were somewhat peculiar.
728
00:45:15,523 --> 00:45:17,733
I mean there were other ways
to find out...
729
00:45:17,817 --> 00:45:19,944
if clothing would catch fire
inside the Bradley...
730
00:45:20,027 --> 00:45:21,738
when it took a hit.
731
00:45:21,821 --> 00:45:23,865
Let's take the...
732
00:45:23,948 --> 00:45:25,784
The mannequin thing.
733
00:45:42,176 --> 00:45:44,596
- Colonel.
- Yes?
734
00:45:49,476 --> 00:45:51,603
Phone call for you, sir.
They said it's important.
735
00:45:51,687 --> 00:45:53,105
Very good.
736
00:45:53,188 --> 00:45:55,607
- Dalton.
- Yes, sir.
737
00:45:55,691 --> 00:45:57,860
I'll meet you back
at the firing area.
738
00:45:57,943 --> 00:45:59,153
Yes, sir.
739
00:46:05,535 --> 00:46:09,581
- Strip the dummies.
- Sir?
740
00:46:09,664 --> 00:46:12,125
Strip the dummies, Sergeant, now.
741
00:46:18,507 --> 00:46:20,968
Thank you.
Let's go.
742
00:46:22,219 --> 00:46:24,013
Fire when ready.
743
00:46:24,096 --> 00:46:26,182
Backblast area clear!
744
00:46:26,265 --> 00:46:28,476
- Out of the way, sir.
- Fire.
745
00:46:38,779 --> 00:46:41,949
Hold it there.
Let me see those.
746
00:46:42,032 --> 00:46:45,411
That looks good, uniforms look good.
Great, there you go.
747
00:46:48,498 --> 00:46:50,125
Wait a minute, what's that?
748
00:46:50,208 --> 00:46:52,460
That's part of our test, Colonel.
749
00:46:55,172 --> 00:46:57,007
Wait a minute.
750
00:46:59,635 --> 00:47:01,428
"Certainly no one in my command..."
751
00:47:01,512 --> 00:47:03,472
"gave the order to strip
the dummies..."
752
00:47:03,556 --> 00:47:06,058
"and put their clothes
inside a fireproof container..."
753
00:47:06,142 --> 00:47:09,479
"inside the vehicle while
Colonel Burton wasn't around."
754
00:47:09,562 --> 00:47:11,231
You're a pair of clowns!
755
00:47:13,733 --> 00:47:15,318
"The insults that were traded
that day..."
756
00:47:15,402 --> 00:47:18,697
"had definitely no business
showing up in the test reports."
757
00:47:18,780 --> 00:47:21,825
They were deleted
from the final report.
758
00:47:21,909 --> 00:47:28,916
All except Colonel Bach's unfortunate
reference to Colonel Burton's mother.
759
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,169
Understand temperatures
were running high.
760
00:47:31,252 --> 00:47:34,047
Apparently inside the Bradley
as well.
761
00:47:34,130 --> 00:47:38,844
There's a degree of uncertainty
involved in every test.
762
00:47:40,012 --> 00:47:43,682
That's the point of doing tests,
to find out what happens.
763
00:47:46,811 --> 00:47:51,190
If we knew what the results would be,
we wouldn't need to do the test.
764
00:47:51,274 --> 00:47:55,737
And just because the tests
didn't always come out...
765
00:47:55,820 --> 00:47:58,198
the way Colonel Burton expected...
766
00:47:58,281 --> 00:48:03,871
is no reason to assume that
anything devious was going on.
767
00:48:03,954 --> 00:48:08,793
I ask you, General,
filling the fuel tanks with water...
768
00:48:08,876 --> 00:48:13,840
for a test designed to check
the combustibility of those tanks...
769
00:48:13,923 --> 00:48:16,718
that wasn't devious?
770
00:48:16,801 --> 00:48:19,846
If the tanks had been
filled with fuel...
771
00:48:19,930 --> 00:48:23,225
there's a good chance
the vehicle would have exploded.
772
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,145
Isn't that the point?
773
00:48:27,855 --> 00:48:34,112
If the vehicle had exploded,
we couldn't run additional tests.
774
00:48:34,195 --> 00:48:39,409
I can't order up an unlimited number
of Bradleys just to blow them up!
775
00:48:39,493 --> 00:48:41,078
Unless you're telling me
to spend more money.
776
00:48:41,161 --> 00:48:42,496
which I can't imagine you are.
777
00:48:42,579 --> 00:48:45,082
General, I believe that efforts
were made...
778
00:48:45,165 --> 00:48:48,544
to make the Bradley amphibious?
779
00:48:48,627 --> 00:48:51,797
Yes, although how that's relevant
I fail to comprehend.
780
00:48:51,881 --> 00:48:55,134
How many Bradleys
were lost during that experiment?
781
00:48:55,218 --> 00:48:56,261
Lost?
782
00:48:56,344 --> 00:49:00,891
The report says four of the Bradleys
sank during testing.
783
00:49:00,974 --> 00:49:03,226
That is a matter of opinion.
784
00:49:03,310 --> 00:49:06,355
It's not opinion, General.
785
00:49:06,438 --> 00:49:09,275
Four of them sank.
786
00:49:13,780 --> 00:49:14,906
Technically, yes.
787
00:49:14,989 --> 00:49:18,743
General,
can we get back to the fuel tanks?
788
00:49:18,827 --> 00:49:21,079
Come on. Good.
789
00:49:22,205 --> 00:49:27,503
Sergeant, have the tanks
always been filled with water?
790
00:49:27,586 --> 00:49:29,547
No, sir.
791
00:49:29,630 --> 00:49:32,091
Only when the vehicle
is being tested, sir.
792
00:49:33,259 --> 00:49:35,303
What else don't I know?
793
00:49:39,432 --> 00:49:41,851
Sergeant, I'm asking you a question.
794
00:49:41,935 --> 00:49:45,689
What else don't I know
about these tests?
795
00:49:45,772 --> 00:49:48,108
The ammunition stored
in the Bradley, sir.
796
00:49:49,944 --> 00:49:51,612
What about it?
797
00:50:03,834 --> 00:50:05,544
Sand.
798
00:50:05,627 --> 00:50:07,629
That's affirmative, sir.
799
00:50:10,591 --> 00:50:12,301
Tell me...
800
00:50:12,384 --> 00:50:17,140
did the term "court-martial"
ever enter anyone's mind here?
801
00:50:17,223 --> 00:50:18,933
- No, sir.
- Really?
802
00:50:19,017 --> 00:50:21,603
That's truly amazing, Sergeant.
803
00:50:21,686 --> 00:50:25,482
I mean here we are watching
water drip out of the gas tanks...
804
00:50:25,565 --> 00:50:28,443
and sand spill out
of the ammunition...
805
00:50:28,527 --> 00:50:30,404
right after a test that was done
to figure out...
806
00:50:30,487 --> 00:50:32,323
whether or not the damn thing
is safe!
807
00:50:32,406 --> 00:50:38,079
And no one here even thinks
of the term "court-martial"?
808
00:50:38,162 --> 00:50:43,710
Now why, if you don't mind my asking,
is that?
809
00:50:43,793 --> 00:50:45,670
We were under orders, sir.
810
00:50:46,713 --> 00:50:50,092
Do you think acting on those orders
conscionable, Sergeant?
811
00:50:50,175 --> 00:50:53,637
It doesn't matter what I think
or do, sir...
812
00:50:53,721 --> 00:50:56,432
because you desk warriors
from Washington will show up...
813
00:50:56,515 --> 00:50:58,059
and find a million different ways...
814
00:50:58,142 --> 00:51:00,812
to make the tests turn out
whatever way you want, sir.
815
00:51:00,895 --> 00:51:05,608
I'm not here to manipulate
test results.
816
00:51:05,692 --> 00:51:08,320
- I'm here to learn the truth.
- You want the truth, sir?
817
00:51:09,863 --> 00:51:12,699
We get a new white knight
every other year, sir.
818
00:51:12,783 --> 00:51:15,870
Some guy just like you,
and you all start off the same.
819
00:51:15,953 --> 00:51:18,789
Big speeches that turn to shit
after six months...
820
00:51:18,873 --> 00:51:21,125
when your next promotion comes due.
821
00:51:21,209 --> 00:51:23,294
And then it's business as usual.
822
00:51:24,838 --> 00:51:28,258
Where did you pick up
this lousy attitude, Sergeant?
823
00:51:28,341 --> 00:51:32,012
Right here, sir...
824
00:51:32,095 --> 00:51:34,223
watching guys like you.
825
00:51:36,308 --> 00:51:37,935
Well, I'm sorry.
826
00:51:39,812 --> 00:51:41,856
I'm really sorry to hear that.
827
00:51:43,191 --> 00:51:48,446
Because unlike you,
I take my job seriously.
828
00:51:52,492 --> 00:51:54,161
Really?
829
00:51:55,245 --> 00:51:56,997
Well, maybe...
830
00:51:57,081 --> 00:51:59,792
maybe you can explain to me,
Colonel...
831
00:51:59,875 --> 00:52:01,878
why the Bradley has been
ordered into production...
832
00:52:01,961 --> 00:52:04,422
before you have done your job.
833
00:52:22,149 --> 00:52:25,445
Do you mind telling me what is this?
100 Bradleys have been ordered?
834
00:52:25,528 --> 00:52:27,030
We have a schedule, Colonel Burton.
835
00:52:27,113 --> 00:52:28,531
And I'm not going to have it
on my record...
836
00:52:28,615 --> 00:52:30,158
that the Bradley
fell behind schedule...
837
00:52:30,241 --> 00:52:32,160
just because you fussing over
of some goddamn tests.
838
00:52:32,244 --> 00:52:35,038
Those goddamn tests could save lives.
839
00:52:35,122 --> 00:52:36,748
The Bradley will save lives,
Colonel...
840
00:52:36,832 --> 00:52:39,209
by bringing men to the front line
where the needed.
841
00:52:39,293 --> 00:52:41,670
Do you have any idea Colonel,
what would happen to those men...
842
00:52:41,754 --> 00:52:45,925
if the Bradley takes a hit
and the aluminium burns?
843
00:52:46,008 --> 00:52:50,597
I know all about the British study,
Colonel. And it is bullshit.
844
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:52,974
That thing could be a deathtrap.
845
00:52:53,058 --> 00:52:55,018
- Says who?
- Says me.
846
00:52:55,102 --> 00:52:56,770
And how do you know?
Have you put people in there...
847
00:52:56,853 --> 00:52:58,063
during the test?
848
00:52:58,147 --> 00:53:00,024
- No, of...
- So you don't know, Colonel.
849
00:53:00,107 --> 00:53:01,525
Actually know anything.
850
00:53:01,609 --> 00:53:05,279
And until you do,
all you're doing is wasting our time.
851
00:53:09,742 --> 00:53:13,830
Are you suggesting Colonel Burton
had no reason to be concerned?
852
00:53:13,914 --> 00:53:18,043
I am suggesting
that Colonel Burton and his tests...
853
00:53:18,126 --> 00:53:22,006
did not reveal anything
we didn't already know.
854
00:53:22,089 --> 00:53:24,633
Except his own penchant
for theatrics.
855
00:53:24,717 --> 00:53:27,470
- Theatrics, General?
- Yes, theatrics.
856
00:53:27,553 --> 00:53:29,847
Cheap theatrics at that.
857
00:53:29,931 --> 00:53:32,142
So, Billy now the little prick
has issued a memo...
858
00:53:32,225 --> 00:53:36,688
that stipulates that for the tests
he'd like to use sheep.
859
00:53:36,772 --> 00:53:40,067
Jesus, we already started work
on the chassis zone.
860
00:53:40,150 --> 00:53:41,443
Dave, don't worry about it.
861
00:53:41,527 --> 00:53:43,529
Because if the sheep come out
of this thing tits up...
862
00:53:43,612 --> 00:53:44,655
we're going to have
to stop production.
863
00:53:44,738 --> 00:53:46,073
There are ways around it.
Ways around anything.
864
00:53:46,157 --> 00:53:48,284
- Absolutely.
- Like what?
865
00:53:48,367 --> 00:53:51,162
Well, we could sick the animal rights
people on him.
866
00:53:51,245 --> 00:53:54,249
Well, it is cruel and unusual
treatment of sheep.
867
00:53:54,332 --> 00:53:55,542
Rack of lamb.
868
00:53:56,835 --> 00:53:58,670
Yeah, that would be me.
869
00:54:02,257 --> 00:54:04,760
- Yes.
- "Major Sayers just called, sir."
870
00:54:05,803 --> 00:54:07,805
- When do they plan to run the tests?
- "Immediately."
871
00:54:07,888 --> 00:54:10,308
"Just as soon as we send
over the sheep."
872
00:54:10,391 --> 00:54:14,020
"We"? I thought they were
in charge of the sheep.
873
00:54:14,103 --> 00:54:15,939
They say it's being handled
at our end.
874
00:54:17,816 --> 00:54:19,776
The Surgeon General's office.
875
00:54:21,486 --> 00:54:23,697
What does the Surgeon General
have to do with sheep?
876
00:54:29,245 --> 00:54:31,164
- Excuse me.
- You must be Colonel Burton.
877
00:54:31,247 --> 00:54:34,375
- We were told you might show up.
- Who told you that?
878
00:54:34,459 --> 00:54:36,252
Colonel Bach, he established
this office last week...
879
00:54:36,336 --> 00:54:37,671
with the Surgeon General.
880
00:54:39,464 --> 00:54:41,508
You're the one
who's trying to kill the Bradley.
881
00:54:41,591 --> 00:54:43,719
Who told you that?
882
00:54:43,802 --> 00:54:46,889
I'm sorry, sir, all information
in this office is classified.
883
00:54:47,973 --> 00:54:53,604
So, what is
"ruminant procurement" anyway?
884
00:54:53,688 --> 00:54:56,232
That's what this office
has been created to do.
885
00:54:56,316 --> 00:54:57,817
Yeah, but what is it?
886
00:54:57,901 --> 00:55:00,821
The analysis and policy determination
for the premise about which...
887
00:55:00,904 --> 00:55:04,157
will be tendered research data
on the optimal test ruminant.
888
00:55:04,241 --> 00:55:06,744
- Such ruminants are to be...
- Sheep...
889
00:55:06,827 --> 00:55:08,537
You're talking about sheep.
890
00:55:08,621 --> 00:55:12,083
You're in charge of buying sheep,
correct?
891
00:55:12,166 --> 00:55:14,460
We can't just go out and buy sheep,
sir.
892
00:55:14,544 --> 00:55:16,379
Why not?
893
00:55:16,462 --> 00:55:18,214
We're doing a vaporifics test
on sheep.
894
00:55:18,298 --> 00:55:20,467
I mean, vaporifics
is all about what happens...
895
00:55:20,550 --> 00:55:23,595
when a warhead penetrates armour.
The metal particles vaporize...
896
00:55:23,679 --> 00:55:25,264
And form a large fireball
that fills...
897
00:55:25,347 --> 00:55:28,350
Lieutenant, I know
what a vaporifics test is.
898
00:55:28,434 --> 00:55:30,561
I'm the one who called for it.
899
00:55:30,644 --> 00:55:34,398
Well, then you know we have to have
sheep specs before we can proceed.
900
00:55:34,482 --> 00:55:37,485
Sheep specs, what is sheep specs?
901
00:55:37,568 --> 00:55:38,820
Specifications!
902
00:55:38,903 --> 00:55:44,117
Shorn or unshorn, rams,
ewes or lambs?
903
00:55:44,201 --> 00:55:45,535
Merinos or short hair?
904
00:55:45,619 --> 00:55:48,414
Shorn merino ewes
or unshorn merino lambs?
905
00:55:48,497 --> 00:55:49,873
Bighorns or domestic?
906
00:55:49,957 --> 00:55:52,376
Domestic shorn lambs
or bighorn unshorn?
907
00:55:52,460 --> 00:55:55,963
Just, how long will it take you
to get your sheep specs?
908
00:55:56,047 --> 00:55:59,217
Not long at all, six,
eight months, tops.
909
00:55:59,300 --> 00:56:01,469
Then we can
go to tender research data.
910
00:56:01,553 --> 00:56:04,681
But then we'll require another
eight months to evaluate the data.
911
00:56:04,764 --> 00:56:07,893
After which we can move
into prototype ruminant evaluation...
912
00:56:09,269 --> 00:56:11,063
- How much?
- Well...
913
00:56:14,191 --> 00:56:16,319
All right, bring it back.
914
00:56:16,402 --> 00:56:20,865
Keep it coming.
915
00:56:20,949 --> 00:56:24,578
A little more.
916
00:56:24,661 --> 00:56:27,914
Sir, Colonel Bach is
on his way over here, sir.
917
00:56:27,998 --> 00:56:30,250
I'm sure he is.
918
00:56:30,334 --> 00:56:31,460
For your information sir...
919
00:56:31,543 --> 00:56:33,504
it sounded like
a world-class shit-fit, sir.
920
00:56:33,587 --> 00:56:35,673
I'm sure it is, Sergeant.
921
00:56:41,304 --> 00:56:44,099
- Come on, move it.
- What are these sheep doing here?
922
00:56:44,182 --> 00:56:47,102
- I bought them.
- Well, you can't do that!
923
00:56:47,185 --> 00:56:49,563
- Well, I did.
- There are no sheep specs, Colonel!
924
00:56:49,646 --> 00:56:52,691
- I devised the sheep specs, Major.
- What are they?
925
00:56:52,775 --> 00:56:55,736
They're live and kicking,
and that's good enough for me.
926
00:56:55,820 --> 00:56:57,613
Testing is a science, Colonel.
927
00:56:57,697 --> 00:57:00,199
Every tests has to be
controlled experiments.
928
00:57:00,283 --> 00:57:04,704
- Just sticking sheep into a...
- All right, you don't want sheep?
929
00:57:05,914 --> 00:57:09,000
Lennon, Chavez,
get the sheep out of there...
930
00:57:09,084 --> 00:57:11,545
- and get in the Bradley. Dalton!
- Yes, sir?
931
00:57:11,628 --> 00:57:14,048
Get in the Bradley.
932
00:57:14,131 --> 00:57:16,592
- Sir?
- I need a vaporifics test...
933
00:57:16,675 --> 00:57:17,927
get in the Bradley.
Everyone in the Bradley.
934
00:57:18,010 --> 00:57:20,596
Are you out of your fucking mind,
Colonel?
935
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:22,682
You think this is some kind of joke,
Colonel?
936
00:57:22,765 --> 00:57:24,976
Well, let see.
937
00:57:25,059 --> 00:57:28,563
All right, we'll just use the sheep.
That's a terrific idea.
938
00:57:28,647 --> 00:57:31,233
Use the sheep in the Bradley.
Go on, sheep, in the Bradley.
939
00:57:31,316 --> 00:57:34,361
Get in there... God damn it!
940
00:57:36,113 --> 00:57:38,032
Backblast area, clear!
941
00:57:38,115 --> 00:57:40,117
- On the way, sir.
- Fire!
942
00:57:51,505 --> 00:57:54,758
God, Granger, don't breathe!
943
00:57:54,842 --> 00:57:57,553
- What the hell happened?
- The damn fumes!
944
00:57:57,636 --> 00:57:59,221
Stay back!
945
00:58:08,356 --> 00:58:11,193
- How are you doing?
- I'm okay.
946
00:58:11,276 --> 00:58:13,904
Jesus, just one tiny whiff...
947
00:58:13,987 --> 00:58:16,198
Did you get a look inside?
948
00:58:16,281 --> 00:58:18,617
Nothing could have
survived those fumes.
949
00:58:25,917 --> 00:58:29,212
Sergeant, where are the sheep?
950
00:58:29,295 --> 00:58:31,756
Major Sayers said
they had to be incinerated.
951
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:34,343
- What?
- They carted them away, sir.
952
00:58:34,426 --> 00:58:37,221
No! Stop!
953
00:58:40,766 --> 00:58:43,436
- Follow those sheep!
- Sir?
954
00:58:43,519 --> 00:58:47,065
- Stop that truck, that's an order!
- Yes, sir.
955
00:58:47,148 --> 00:58:49,567
Sergeant.
956
00:58:54,448 --> 00:58:57,200
I need them, for autopsy.
957
00:58:58,827 --> 00:59:00,996
To verify test results.
958
00:59:04,250 --> 00:59:06,669
I see him, we got him, sir.
959
00:59:18,473 --> 00:59:21,393
- Pay no attention to them!
- Sir?
960
00:59:21,477 --> 00:59:23,062
Concentrate on the sheep.
961
00:59:27,024 --> 00:59:28,317
Look out!
962
00:59:33,114 --> 00:59:34,699
Move it!
963
00:59:34,783 --> 00:59:36,576
Come on!
964
00:59:44,502 --> 00:59:46,963
Damn it,
what are you stopping us for?
965
00:59:47,046 --> 00:59:49,632
- Stop the sheep!
- What's the hurry, sir?
966
00:59:49,715 --> 00:59:54,429
Not one of the tests I've ordered
has been conducted according to plan.
967
00:59:54,512 --> 00:59:56,723
- And since my job...
- Your job...
968
00:59:56,806 --> 00:59:59,017
is to stop whining
and serve the United States...
969
00:59:59,101 --> 01:00:01,645
- as befits an officer!
- My job, General, is to oversee...
970
01:00:01,728 --> 01:00:04,064
the joint live-fire test programme
and deliver a report...
971
01:00:04,148 --> 01:00:06,567
of my findings to Congress.
In order to do that...
972
01:00:06,650 --> 01:00:09,779
I'm going to have to insist
on a live-fire test of the Bradley...
973
01:00:09,862 --> 01:00:11,364
under combat conditions.
974
01:00:11,447 --> 01:00:12,907
Listen to me,
you fucking fly-boy...
975
01:00:12,991 --> 01:00:15,368
you don't know jack shit
about combat!
976
01:00:15,452 --> 01:00:18,330
I know there are a lot of ways
to die in that vehicle, sir.
977
01:00:18,413 --> 01:00:19,623
Don't you preach to me,
you son of a bitch!
978
01:00:19,706 --> 01:00:21,083
I want a realistic...
979
01:00:21,166 --> 01:00:25,462
- The number one priority is...
- People first, vehicles second!
980
01:00:25,546 --> 01:00:27,006
Those are my priorities.
981
01:00:27,089 --> 01:00:29,926
Unfortunately, the Army's priorities
seem to be the exact opposite.
982
01:00:30,009 --> 01:00:32,053
You are way out of line here.
983
01:00:34,347 --> 01:00:37,851
I won't sign off on the Bradley
without the live fire test.
984
01:00:49,071 --> 01:00:51,699
- "Sir?"
- Who is Burton's commanding officer?
985
01:00:51,782 --> 01:00:53,409
"General De Grasso, sir."
986
01:00:54,786 --> 01:00:56,329
Get him for me now.
987
01:01:03,587 --> 01:01:05,589
It's an economic move, Colonel,
department-wide...
988
01:01:05,672 --> 01:01:08,008
you're being reassigned.
989
01:01:08,092 --> 01:01:10,553
In the meantime, should I...
990
01:01:10,636 --> 01:01:12,555
Should I continue
in my present assignment?
991
01:01:12,638 --> 01:01:15,308
Your present assignment
has been eliminated, Colonel.
992
01:01:17,435 --> 01:01:20,230
I didn't think my job
could be eliminated.
993
01:01:20,313 --> 01:01:24,234
- I was appointed by Congress.
- But you're paid by the Army.
994
01:01:25,444 --> 01:01:29,239
If they can't afford you,
and they can't, you have no job.
995
01:01:30,407 --> 01:01:32,535
Colonel, it's time to move on.
996
01:01:32,618 --> 01:01:35,538
Let's not let this little blip
on the screen ground you permanently.
997
01:02:12,578 --> 01:02:14,038
Would the Colonel ever consider...
998
01:02:14,121 --> 01:02:16,749
having a drink
with an enlisted soldier?
999
01:02:17,959 --> 01:02:20,670
Does the enlisted soldier
think the Colonel needs one?
1000
01:02:22,172 --> 01:02:23,340
What are they going to do, fire you?
1001
01:02:23,423 --> 01:02:24,591
Okay, just a little one.
1002
01:02:51,078 --> 01:02:54,164
You know what's really ironic?
1003
01:02:54,248 --> 01:02:57,084
General Omar Bradley
was a brilliant tactician...
1004
01:02:57,168 --> 01:02:58,753
and a great leader.
1005
01:02:58,836 --> 01:03:01,422
No ego, just did the job.
1006
01:03:02,674 --> 01:03:06,803
And he looked out for the morale
and the safety of his men.
1007
01:03:06,886 --> 01:03:09,848
And they go and put his name
on this thing!
1008
01:03:09,931 --> 01:03:11,725
Talk about a kick in the ass.
1009
01:03:11,808 --> 01:03:14,770
The closest the brass
ever get to a battlefield...
1010
01:03:14,853 --> 01:03:17,481
is the first tee
on a Saturday morning.
1011
01:03:20,902 --> 01:03:22,570
You know, Fanning...
1012
01:03:23,696 --> 01:03:26,783
I've been around long enough to know
that the Pentagon is not a charity...
1013
01:03:26,866 --> 01:03:29,619
it's cashflows and egos.
1014
01:03:30,871 --> 01:03:34,541
That's part of it, it's what helps
drive it, fine, but...
1015
01:03:35,709 --> 01:03:38,170
Somehow...
1016
01:03:40,214 --> 01:03:44,427
Somehow I always thought
the men came first.
1017
01:03:46,679 --> 01:03:49,766
I always thought that
the people on top knew...
1018
01:03:49,850 --> 01:03:51,977
that it was about the soldier
in the field.
1019
01:03:55,105 --> 01:03:56,899
You gave it your best shot.
1020
01:03:58,234 --> 01:04:00,736
- Did I?
- Yes, sir, you did.
1021
01:04:05,867 --> 01:04:09,204
Well,
now it's somebody else's problem.
1022
01:04:10,413 --> 01:04:14,042
My problem is salvaging my career.
1023
01:04:14,126 --> 01:04:19,381
Which apparently is not beyond repair
if I'm a good little boy.
1024
01:04:20,925 --> 01:04:23,594
So, that's it.
1025
01:04:23,678 --> 01:04:24,929
That's it.
1026
01:04:25,012 --> 01:04:27,515
The man said, "war is hell".
1027
01:04:29,142 --> 01:04:30,935
He should've tried peacetime.
1028
01:04:32,813 --> 01:04:36,108
- You don't mind, do you?
- No, be my guest.
1029
01:04:36,191 --> 01:04:38,193
I don't believe in government waste.
1030
01:04:41,864 --> 01:04:44,659
- Burton.
- "So they're moving you out?"
1031
01:04:48,788 --> 01:04:51,791
Is there anything
you don't hear about?
1032
01:04:51,875 --> 01:04:55,837
Well, how far are you willing to go
with this thing?
1033
01:04:55,921 --> 01:04:59,591
The question is...
how far are they going to send me?
1034
01:04:59,675 --> 01:05:03,053
I think you ought to take a trip
to California this weekend.
1035
01:05:03,137 --> 01:05:06,098
I'm not really up for a vacation
right now.
1036
01:05:06,182 --> 01:05:09,477
No one goes to Fresno
for a vacation, Colonel.
1037
01:05:31,084 --> 01:05:33,795
- Can I help you, sir? ID please.
- Colonel Burton.
1038
01:05:33,878 --> 01:05:36,339
I'm here to see the project manager.
1039
01:06:09,792 --> 01:06:11,461
- Colonel Burton?
- Yes.
1040
01:06:11,544 --> 01:06:13,463
Steve Johnson, project manager.
1041
01:06:13,546 --> 01:06:15,757
Hi, thank you.
1042
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:18,468
All set, let's go!
1043
01:06:25,309 --> 01:06:28,062
What the hell is going on here?
Who changed the specs?
1044
01:06:28,145 --> 01:06:29,647
The Israelis.
1045
01:06:29,730 --> 01:06:32,483
The Israelis? When?
1046
01:06:32,567 --> 01:06:35,320
When they placed their order.
1047
01:06:35,403 --> 01:06:38,073
- So these are for export?
- Yes.
1048
01:06:38,156 --> 01:06:40,700
- All of them?
- Yes, Colonel.
1049
01:06:40,784 --> 01:06:43,495
You're telling me we're manufacturing
two different versions...
1050
01:06:43,579 --> 01:06:44,830
of this vehicle?
1051
01:06:44,913 --> 01:06:48,250
The Israelis wouldn't take
the Bradley as designed, Colonel.
1052
01:06:48,334 --> 01:06:50,878
They wanted the fuel tanks
on the outside...
1053
01:06:50,962 --> 01:06:54,257
reinforced armour,
a different ventilation system...
1054
01:06:54,340 --> 01:06:57,927
All right. What about the specs
for our Bradleys?
1055
01:06:58,011 --> 01:07:01,765
Exactly like the ones
you're testing, Colonel. No change.
1056
01:07:26,208 --> 01:07:29,420
- You think you were followed?
- Followed?
1057
01:07:29,503 --> 01:07:32,339
I drove around for hours.
I don't even know where we are.
1058
01:07:32,423 --> 01:07:34,717
Maybe you'd prefer to meet
at the officers' club?
1059
01:07:37,011 --> 01:07:39,472
- So when did the Israelis test it?
- They didn't have to test it...
1060
01:07:39,556 --> 01:07:41,933
they knew by looking at it
that it was a deathtrap.
1061
01:07:43,852 --> 01:07:47,231
So while we're sending our guys
off to die...
1062
01:07:47,314 --> 01:07:50,693
the Pentagon brass is redesigning
the damn thing for somebody else!
1063
01:07:50,776 --> 01:07:53,028
They can't sell it overseas
like it is.
1064
01:07:55,656 --> 01:07:57,366
Business as usual.
1065
01:08:03,164 --> 01:08:06,209
So maybe you'd like to keep
fighting the bastards?
1066
01:08:09,087 --> 01:08:13,300
I've lost my job, General.
They're moving me out.
1067
01:08:13,384 --> 01:08:17,597
So, they're moving you out,
you haven't been discharged.
1068
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:20,808
Work from inside,
from wherever they send you.
1069
01:08:20,892 --> 01:08:22,560
And turn into you?
1070
01:08:24,437 --> 01:08:27,607
Passing anonymous notes
and meeting in parking lots?
1071
01:08:28,984 --> 01:08:30,986
You know you're great at sitting
in the shadows.
1072
01:08:31,070 --> 01:08:33,072
And telling people what to do,
why don't you get off your ass...
1073
01:08:33,155 --> 01:08:36,200
- and do something?
- I can't.
1074
01:08:36,283 --> 01:08:39,287
- Help me!
- I have done everything that I can.
1075
01:08:39,370 --> 01:08:42,207
I've been fighting this battle
for almost 20 years.
1076
01:08:42,290 --> 01:08:44,376
I'm not going to go
to the mat over this!
1077
01:08:44,459 --> 01:08:46,336
I... I've got too much to lose.
1078
01:08:54,303 --> 01:08:56,097
70,000 troops.
1079
01:08:57,765 --> 01:09:00,393
70,000 American boys...
1080
01:09:00,476 --> 01:09:02,186
will ride into battle
in the Bradley...
1081
01:09:02,270 --> 01:09:04,147
if America fights another war.
1082
01:09:04,230 --> 01:09:07,275
We can't be a part
of sending them to their deaths.
1083
01:09:17,870 --> 01:09:19,705
One call.
1084
01:09:24,127 --> 01:09:25,879
- What?
- One call.
1085
01:09:25,962 --> 01:09:28,006
I'll make one call and that's it.
1086
01:09:32,010 --> 01:09:34,680
Sit down.
1087
01:09:34,763 --> 01:09:37,683
General Partridge, you've read
today's Washington Post?
1088
01:09:37,766 --> 01:09:39,977
- I have, Mr. Secretary.
- And I take you have seen...
1089
01:09:40,061 --> 01:09:43,231
the story attributed to an anonymous
highly placed Pentagon source?
1090
01:09:43,314 --> 01:09:45,859
Yes, I have, sir, and may I say
I am as deeply distressed...
1091
01:09:45,942 --> 01:09:48,153
as you that anyone in the Pentagon
would stoop so low.
1092
01:09:48,236 --> 01:09:52,282
Leaks within the Pentagon, General,
are how I get most of my information.
1093
01:09:52,366 --> 01:09:53,492
Mr. Secretary...
1094
01:09:53,575 --> 01:09:56,286
are you suggesting that the Pentagon
is less than forthcoming?
1095
01:09:56,370 --> 01:09:57,955
Less than forthcoming, General?
1096
01:09:58,038 --> 01:10:00,833
Then perhaps you can explain to me
why I have to learn from the press...
1097
01:10:00,916 --> 01:10:03,294
that the man in charge of testing
the Bradley fighting vehichle...
1098
01:10:03,377 --> 01:10:05,129
has been fired?
1099
01:10:05,213 --> 01:10:08,299
He wasn't fired, sir,
he was reassigned.
1100
01:10:08,383 --> 01:10:10,427
- By whom?
- By General De Grasso...
1101
01:10:10,510 --> 01:10:14,097
his commanding officer.
I'm as shocked as you are.
1102
01:10:14,181 --> 01:10:16,642
My guess is that
there was some confusion...
1103
01:10:16,725 --> 01:10:18,811
between the Army,
the Air Force commands...
1104
01:10:18,894 --> 01:10:20,271
The sort of trouble you always get...
1105
01:10:20,354 --> 01:10:24,317
with these cross-departmental
joint-testing programmes.
1106
01:10:29,989 --> 01:10:31,074
Yes.
1107
01:10:31,157 --> 01:10:32,951
"Congressman Stratton
is on the phone."
1108
01:10:35,996 --> 01:10:38,916
Sam, what can I do for you?
1109
01:10:38,999 --> 01:10:41,627
What article?
That article.
1110
01:10:41,710 --> 01:10:45,423
No, completely untrue,
inter-office SNAFU.
1111
01:10:45,506 --> 01:10:47,342
File it under creative journalism.
1112
01:10:47,425 --> 01:10:49,969
I'm looking into it now,
you'll be the first to know.
1113
01:10:50,053 --> 01:10:52,555
Right.
1114
01:10:52,639 --> 01:10:54,474
My best to Ellen.
1115
01:10:57,561 --> 01:11:02,525
General, I want a full update
on the Bradley...
1116
01:11:02,608 --> 01:11:05,361
- and I want it in writing.
- Right away, sir.
1117
01:11:07,530 --> 01:11:13,787
That is the last call
I expect to receive on this matter...
1118
01:11:13,870 --> 01:11:18,625
from Congressman Stratton
or anyone else on the Hill.
1119
01:11:20,794 --> 01:11:23,214
Do I make myself clear, General?
1120
01:11:23,297 --> 01:11:24,715
Perfectly.
1121
01:11:42,735 --> 01:11:45,154
Colonel Burton, I want you to write
your report on the Bradley.
1122
01:11:46,447 --> 01:11:49,742
Sir? I was under the impression
that my job had...
1123
01:11:49,826 --> 01:11:51,995
Your job has been reinstated.
1124
01:11:52,078 --> 01:11:54,873
I want your report on my desk
by 6.00pm tomorrow.
1125
01:11:54,956 --> 01:11:56,875
- Yes, sir.
- And Colonel...
1126
01:11:56,958 --> 01:11:59,127
in case you are unaware,
as per the military manual...
1127
01:11:59,211 --> 01:12:02,548
you will deliver your report
to me and to me alone.
1128
01:12:02,631 --> 01:12:04,925
Should so much as a single copy
of the report be made public...
1129
01:12:05,009 --> 01:12:07,052
I will bring you up on charges
of willfull subversion...
1130
01:12:07,136 --> 01:12:10,056
of military procedure
and have you court-martialled.
1131
01:12:31,746 --> 01:12:33,373
Stop packing, we're staying.
1132
01:12:33,456 --> 01:12:35,208
We're staying?
How'd you do that?
1133
01:12:35,291 --> 01:12:37,127
I didn't do anything.
1134
01:12:37,210 --> 01:12:39,421
- Do we have a rule book?
- A rule book, sir?
1135
01:12:39,504 --> 01:12:42,883
- You know a book with rules in it.
- What do you need a rule book for?
1136
01:12:42,966 --> 01:12:46,095
To play by the rules,
because I always play by the rules.
1137
01:12:46,178 --> 01:12:47,805
How do you know
you're playing by rules...
1138
01:12:47,888 --> 01:12:50,182
if you need a rule book
to tell you what the rules are?
1139
01:12:50,266 --> 01:12:53,478
I need a rule book to tell me
which rules I...
1140
01:12:53,561 --> 01:12:55,104
Just get me the book.
1141
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:24,553
You need anything else, sir?
Chinese food, No-Doz?
1142
01:13:24,636 --> 01:13:27,431
No, thank you, Sergeant, I'm fine.
1143
01:13:27,514 --> 01:13:30,226
Well, then, night, sir.
1144
01:13:30,309 --> 01:13:32,395
What sounds better?
1145
01:13:32,478 --> 01:13:35,731
"The Bradley has so far
failed virtually every test"
1146
01:13:35,815 --> 01:13:38,443
or "The testing program
of the Bradley...
1147
01:13:38,526 --> 01:13:42,072
has been without any
coherent standards"?
1148
01:13:42,155 --> 01:13:43,532
They both sound like something...
1149
01:13:43,615 --> 01:13:46,493
the General wouldn't want
in his report.
1150
01:13:46,577 --> 01:13:50,497
This is not just a report,
it's a deadly weapon.
1151
01:13:50,581 --> 01:13:53,250
Sir, an M-16 is a deadly weapon.
1152
01:13:53,334 --> 01:13:55,253
A report is just a pile of paper...
1153
01:13:55,336 --> 01:13:59,340
unless you plan to inflict a lot
of extremely vicious paper cuts.
1154
01:13:59,424 --> 01:14:01,342
Go home, Sergeant.
1155
01:14:01,426 --> 01:14:02,844
Good night, sir.
1156
01:14:11,687 --> 01:14:13,898
"The failure of the Bradley
to incorporate..."
1157
01:14:13,981 --> 01:14:16,192
"even the most elementary safeguards"
1158
01:14:16,275 --> 01:14:18,152
"to protect the troops inside..."
1159
01:14:18,236 --> 01:14:20,989
"raises questions
about the integrity."
1160
01:14:23,074 --> 01:14:24,910
"And the manner in which
the vaporifics test..."
1161
01:14:24,993 --> 01:14:28,538
"was carried out
suggests either negligence..."
1162
01:14:28,622 --> 01:14:31,458
"or a failure
in the chain of command."
1163
01:14:31,542 --> 01:14:33,627
"Had any troops been
inside the vehicle..."
1164
01:14:33,711 --> 01:14:35,463
"as it is currently configured..."
1165
01:14:35,546 --> 01:14:39,300
"they would have been killed
by toxic fumes, flames..."
1166
01:14:39,383 --> 01:14:41,177
"or by the overpressure
created by..."
1167
01:14:41,260 --> 01:14:44,097
"the powerful expanding gas
in the compartment."
1168
01:14:45,223 --> 01:14:50,729
"And as a result of manifest
deficiencies in every area..."
1169
01:14:50,812 --> 01:14:51,855
"this office..."
1170
01:14:51,939 --> 01:14:54,858
"As a result of
manifest deficiencies in the area...
1171
01:14:54,942 --> 01:14:57,111
this office is advising
the immediate necessity...
1172
01:14:57,194 --> 01:15:00,656
of live fire-testing
under combat conditions"!
1173
01:15:00,740 --> 01:15:03,743
- Rewrite it!
- Sir?
1174
01:15:03,826 --> 01:15:07,038
Rewrite the fucking piece of garbage
so it smells like a rose!
1175
01:15:08,832 --> 01:15:11,001
Jesus Christ!
1176
01:15:13,378 --> 01:15:19,343
"The Bradley test standards
have been consistently altered...
1177
01:15:19,427 --> 01:15:22,013
in extreme ways."
1178
01:15:23,473 --> 01:15:27,769
"The Bradley tests have been
extremely consistent."
1179
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:31,523
"They have altered
1180
01:15:31,606 --> 01:15:37,112
the standards for testing."
1181
01:15:43,786 --> 01:15:48,917
"Test after test has revealed
design flaws in the Bradley."
1182
01:15:58,218 --> 01:16:00,679
"The marginalised optimal
performance data..."
1183
01:16:00,763 --> 01:16:03,266
"The marginalised optimal
performance data...
1184
01:16:03,349 --> 01:16:08,313
suggests no vaporific shift
at this time."
1185
01:16:09,939 --> 01:16:13,944
That's brilliant, Lieutenant,
that's abso-fucking-lutely brilliant.
1186
01:16:14,027 --> 01:16:15,946
Thank you, sir.
1187
01:16:16,029 --> 01:16:18,157
- But, sir...
- What?
1188
01:16:20,493 --> 01:16:22,036
What does it mean?
1189
01:16:23,162 --> 01:16:26,207
What do you mean, what does it mean?
You wrote it.
1190
01:16:30,503 --> 01:16:31,963
- Afternoon, sir.
- Good afternoon.
1191
01:16:32,047 --> 01:16:34,925
"The Bradley tests have been
extremely consistent.
1192
01:16:35,008 --> 01:16:37,553
They have altered
the standard for testing..."
1193
01:16:37,636 --> 01:16:38,929
Have you actually read this thing...
1194
01:16:39,013 --> 01:16:40,764
is exactly the opposite
of what you wrote.
1195
01:16:40,848 --> 01:16:42,057
How can they do that?
1196
01:16:42,141 --> 01:16:44,977
They're playing by the book,
Sergeant.
1197
01:16:45,061 --> 01:16:48,272
And so am I.
1198
01:16:48,356 --> 01:16:50,108
Paper cuts...
1199
01:16:52,027 --> 01:16:53,653
Vicious paper cuts.
1200
01:17:06,626 --> 01:17:08,795
"The characterisation
in your report...
1201
01:17:08,878 --> 01:17:11,214
is at best a serious
misunderstanding...
1202
01:17:11,297 --> 01:17:14,301
of the testing procedures
on a vehicle as flawed...
1203
01:17:14,384 --> 01:17:16,344
as the Bradley.
1204
01:17:16,428 --> 01:17:20,182
As noted in my original report,
the integrity..."
1205
01:17:20,265 --> 01:17:23,769
Jesus Christ! Who did
this fucking thing go to?
1206
01:17:23,853 --> 01:17:26,856
The distribution page listed
198 names.
1207
01:17:26,939 --> 01:17:30,193
Court-martial the son of a bitch!
Lock him up now!
1208
01:17:30,276 --> 01:17:32,821
- We can't.
- We sure as hell can!
1209
01:17:32,904 --> 01:17:34,155
Burton's played by the book.
1210
01:17:34,239 --> 01:17:36,533
His report was classified,
it was sent to you...
1211
01:17:36,616 --> 01:17:38,326
you revised it and sent it back
to him.
1212
01:17:38,410 --> 01:17:39,995
He wrote a memo on your revision...
1213
01:17:40,078 --> 01:17:42,790
which in accordance to regulation
can be sent to anyone...
1214
01:17:42,873 --> 01:17:44,583
remotely involved with the Bradley.
1215
01:17:44,667 --> 01:17:47,253
In this case, 198 people.
1216
01:17:49,172 --> 01:17:51,341
I will fucking kill him.
1217
01:17:51,424 --> 01:17:53,718
I will fillet him, draw,
and quarter him...
1218
01:17:53,802 --> 01:17:57,180
- I stick his head in a vice.
- We can't touch him, sir.
1219
01:17:57,264 --> 01:17:58,306
It's by the book.
1220
01:17:58,390 --> 01:18:00,100
Then you find something
in that goddamn book...
1221
01:18:00,183 --> 01:18:02,478
that'll help me fry
the son of a bitch!
1222
01:18:02,561 --> 01:18:03,937
What?
1223
01:18:05,898 --> 01:18:09,986
Sir, the Washington Post
is on the phone.
1224
01:18:10,069 --> 01:18:11,779
Well, that was fast.
1225
01:18:11,863 --> 01:18:15,617
Leaks don't usually get to them
till after lunch.
1226
01:18:15,700 --> 01:18:19,079
Yes. No, we cannot comment
on that right now. Thank you.
1227
01:18:19,162 --> 01:18:20,914
Yes?
1228
01:18:20,998 --> 01:18:23,709
No, he cannot comment on that.
1229
01:18:23,792 --> 01:18:27,087
I'm sorry, but under military rules,
I'm unable to comment.
1230
01:18:28,130 --> 01:18:30,549
I... I can't comment.
1231
01:18:30,633 --> 01:18:34,429
No. No comment.
1232
01:18:34,512 --> 01:18:36,014
Sorry, goodbye.
1233
01:18:37,432 --> 01:18:40,185
I'm getting lockjaw
from not saying anything.
1234
01:18:43,021 --> 01:18:44,523
Burton.
1235
01:18:44,606 --> 01:18:47,234
I... I can't comment.
1236
01:18:49,195 --> 01:18:51,697
Is there anything I can comment on?
1237
01:18:53,199 --> 01:18:55,535
Well, yes.
1238
01:18:55,618 --> 01:18:59,873
I've just received orders
that I am to report for duty in...
1239
01:18:59,956 --> 01:19:01,792
Alaska.
1240
01:19:01,875 --> 01:19:05,087
Alaska is a prestige posting,
Senator.
1241
01:19:06,505 --> 01:19:10,092
No, I assure you that memo of his
had absolutely nothing to do...
1242
01:19:10,176 --> 01:19:12,219
with his being transferred.
1243
01:19:12,303 --> 01:19:14,555
Senator, I'm sorry,
I've just been informed that...
1244
01:19:14,639 --> 01:19:16,391
Secretary Weinberger is
on the other line.
1245
01:19:16,474 --> 01:19:20,103
Yes, I'll get right back to you.
I promise, thank you.
1246
01:19:20,186 --> 01:19:22,314
Sir, before you pick up,
Weinberger is on two...
1247
01:19:22,397 --> 01:19:23,607
line 1 is the Times.
1248
01:19:23,690 --> 01:19:26,360
Line 3 is the Wall Street Journal,
line 4 is Newsweek...
1249
01:19:26,443 --> 01:19:28,529
line 5 is the House
Armed Services Committee.
1250
01:19:28,612 --> 01:19:31,490
The House Armed Services Committee?
What do they want?
1251
01:19:35,077 --> 01:19:38,957
Hearings, sir. On the Bradley.
1252
01:20:38,646 --> 01:20:40,189
Alaska?
1253
01:20:44,027 --> 01:20:46,780
- What?
- I said Alaska, General.
1254
01:20:49,616 --> 01:20:52,494
As I said in my opening remarks,
Madam Chairman...
1255
01:20:52,578 --> 01:20:56,999
a lot of things have to come together
to create teamwork.
1256
01:20:57,083 --> 01:21:01,671
- Good old-fashioned teamwork.
- Yes, you told us, General.
1257
01:21:01,754 --> 01:21:05,049
And Colonel Burton's
not a team player...
1258
01:21:05,133 --> 01:21:08,011
he's a rogue operator.
1259
01:21:08,094 --> 01:21:10,055
I'm not a name-caller,
Madam Chairman.
1260
01:21:10,138 --> 01:21:12,015
But if you wish
to make that connection...
1261
01:21:12,099 --> 01:21:14,143
that would be your choice,
not mine.
1262
01:21:14,226 --> 01:21:15,936
Did you ever say to Colonel Burton...
1263
01:21:16,020 --> 01:21:18,481
"If I get one more call
from the Hill...
1264
01:21:18,564 --> 01:21:24,028
about your expletive deleted reports
you'll be sitting on your brains"?
1265
01:21:24,112 --> 01:21:25,238
Does that sound like me, sir?
1266
01:21:25,321 --> 01:21:27,574
Just answer the question, General,
please.
1267
01:21:27,657 --> 01:21:31,161
I don't remember saying it.
Not that I wasn't provoked.
1268
01:21:32,245 --> 01:21:35,541
Two witnesses testified that you said
those exact words...
1269
01:21:35,624 --> 01:21:38,461
to Colonel Burton
outside the Pentagon pharmacy.
1270
01:21:38,544 --> 01:21:41,297
I have visited the pharmacy.
1271
01:21:41,380 --> 01:21:44,509
Quite a bit lately for antacids.
1272
01:21:46,845 --> 01:21:51,391
But I would never say
anything like that to anyone.
1273
01:21:51,475 --> 01:21:53,685
Let alone a fellow officer.
1274
01:21:53,769 --> 01:21:55,854
But you make no secret
of your antagonism...
1275
01:21:55,938 --> 01:21:57,272
towards Colonel Burton?
1276
01:21:57,356 --> 01:22:02,028
It's his report
that I don't approve of.
1277
01:22:02,111 --> 01:22:03,863
Colonel Burton's report
is fallacious...
1278
01:22:03,946 --> 01:22:07,283
misinformed, and accusatory.
1279
01:22:07,367 --> 01:22:11,162
And I have no use for an officer...
1280
01:22:11,246 --> 01:22:14,374
who is more interested in
grabbing headlines...
1281
01:22:14,458 --> 01:22:17,002
than he is in defending this country.
1282
01:22:21,173 --> 01:22:22,842
I thought he was in Anchorage.
1283
01:22:26,220 --> 01:22:28,431
Madam Chairman,
Colonel Burton's here.
1284
01:22:29,933 --> 01:22:32,894
At this time he committee would like
to call as witness...
1285
01:22:32,978 --> 01:22:35,689
Colonel James G Burton,
United States Air Force.
1286
01:22:37,441 --> 01:22:40,486
- Madam Chairman.
- Yes, General?
1287
01:22:40,569 --> 01:22:43,406
As you must know under the rules
of military conduct...
1288
01:22:43,489 --> 01:22:45,533
no man can appear
at these hearings...
1289
01:22:45,616 --> 01:22:48,828
without the express order
of his commanding officer.
1290
01:22:48,911 --> 01:22:51,456
Unfortunately, General De Grasso
is on fact-finding tour...
1291
01:22:51,539 --> 01:22:52,624
of our bases in Germany.
1292
01:22:52,707 --> 01:22:55,419
I don't believe General De Grasso
has given any ordered...
1293
01:22:55,502 --> 01:22:58,422
- for Colonel Burton to testify.
- You're quite right, General.
1294
01:22:58,505 --> 01:23:01,467
But as Colonel Burton
has been transferred to Alaska...
1295
01:23:01,550 --> 01:23:04,970
he's no longer under
General De Grasso's command.
1296
01:23:05,054 --> 01:23:06,722
Am I correct?
1297
01:23:33,585 --> 01:23:35,295
Do you swear to tell the truth...
1298
01:23:35,378 --> 01:23:37,547
the whole truth
and nothing but the truth...
1299
01:23:37,631 --> 01:23:39,424
- so help you God?
- I do.
1300
01:23:40,926 --> 01:23:43,971
Looks like you've stirred up
a hornet's nest, Colonel.
1301
01:23:45,055 --> 01:23:47,266
It was never my intention, ma'am.
1302
01:23:47,350 --> 01:23:50,728
What was your intention?
1303
01:23:50,812 --> 01:23:54,607
Simply to do the job
I was assigned to do.
1304
01:23:56,776 --> 01:23:59,613
The Army test reports do not make
the possibility...
1305
01:23:59,696 --> 01:24:02,157
of casualties a top priority.
1306
01:24:02,241 --> 01:24:06,912
In fact, General Partridge's
report on the Bradley...
1307
01:24:06,996 --> 01:24:11,167
doesn't even mention
the word casualty, not once.
1308
01:24:11,250 --> 01:24:15,088
I came to the conclusion
that what was required...
1309
01:24:15,171 --> 01:24:17,382
was a live-fire test.
1310
01:24:17,465 --> 01:24:20,886
I requested such a test, repeatedly.
1311
01:24:20,969 --> 01:24:25,224
- Did you get that test?
- No, ma'am, I did not.
1312
01:24:25,307 --> 01:24:26,517
Why not?
1313
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:28,602
I wanted more realism
than Army testing...
1314
01:24:28,686 --> 01:24:30,646
was accustomed to providing.
1315
01:24:30,730 --> 01:24:32,899
You want realism?
1316
01:24:32,982 --> 01:24:35,401
General, you are out of order!
1317
01:24:35,485 --> 01:24:38,780
Madam Chairman, in the interest
of resolving some of these issues...
1318
01:24:38,863 --> 01:24:41,783
presented here today,
I'd like to say something.
1319
01:24:42,951 --> 01:24:45,704
Please be brief, General.
1320
01:24:45,788 --> 01:24:47,081
Of course.
1321
01:24:49,667 --> 01:24:52,461
Colonel Burton wants more realism...
1322
01:24:52,545 --> 01:24:54,839
so let's talk about the real world
for a moment.
1323
01:24:54,922 --> 01:24:59,052
The real world has enemies in it.
1324
01:24:59,135 --> 01:25:03,765
There are forces at work,
even now as we speak...
1325
01:25:03,849 --> 01:25:06,769
with one objective in mind...
1326
01:25:06,852 --> 01:25:11,107
the destruction of this country.
1327
01:25:11,190 --> 01:25:15,194
We must not, we will not
allow those forces to prevail...
1328
01:25:15,278 --> 01:25:18,990
for if we do,
you can be certain that you and I...
1329
01:25:19,073 --> 01:25:23,245
and everyone else
will never again enjoy the luxury...
1330
01:25:23,328 --> 01:25:26,915
of meeting in this building
to debate anything!
1331
01:25:26,999 --> 01:25:31,337
As I said at the outset,
we are in the business of winning.
1332
01:25:31,420 --> 01:25:34,632
That takes teamwork.
1333
01:25:37,719 --> 01:25:42,349
General, the teamwork you so prize,
I take it it was in full force...
1334
01:25:42,432 --> 01:25:45,310
during the development
of the Bradley fighting vehichle?
1335
01:25:45,394 --> 01:25:47,563
Textbook!
1336
01:25:47,646 --> 01:25:51,525
Perhaps you'd like to tell us
how much has been spent so far...
1337
01:25:51,609 --> 01:25:53,652
to develop the Bradley?
1338
01:25:53,736 --> 01:25:55,613
How much?
1339
01:25:55,696 --> 01:25:58,408
Well, you have the figures,
don't you?
1340
01:25:58,491 --> 01:26:00,159
Of course.
1341
01:26:39,035 --> 01:26:41,287
14.
1342
01:26:41,371 --> 01:26:44,290
- More or less.
- 14.
1343
01:26:44,374 --> 01:26:47,502
- 14.
- Million?
1344
01:26:49,087 --> 01:26:51,381
Bill... ion.
1345
01:26:53,467 --> 01:26:55,970
What did you say, General?
1346
01:26:58,264 --> 01:26:59,807
Billion.
1347
01:27:02,977 --> 01:27:06,314
Billion... with a B?
1348
01:27:07,732 --> 01:27:09,359
With a B.
1349
01:27:10,986 --> 01:27:15,908
14 billion dollars for designing
one armoured vehicle?
1350
01:27:19,245 --> 01:27:21,122
That's one way of looking at it.
1351
01:27:21,205 --> 01:27:24,083
Of taxpayers' money.
1352
01:27:24,167 --> 01:27:28,380
We are all taxpayers, after all.
We're in this together.
1353
01:27:28,463 --> 01:27:32,092
General, how many years
has this programme been running?
1354
01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:41,310
Bear with me, just a moment.
1355
01:27:45,064 --> 01:27:46,691
Let me...
1356
01:27:47,776 --> 01:27:49,861
Let's see. 12, 15...
1357
01:27:52,114 --> 01:27:54,658
- 17.
- What?
1358
01:27:56,452 --> 01:27:59,288
17.
1359
01:27:59,371 --> 01:28:02,333
Which is evidence...
1360
01:28:03,376 --> 01:28:07,672
of the enormous care
my team takes in the development...
1361
01:28:07,755 --> 01:28:12,677
of every weapons system
undertaken by the Pentagon.
1362
01:28:16,598 --> 01:28:18,726
17 years.
1363
01:28:20,060 --> 01:28:24,815
14 billion dollars
of the taxpayers' money.
1364
01:28:24,899 --> 01:28:28,486
General, I think it's time
the American public...
1365
01:28:28,570 --> 01:28:32,782
gets the live-fire test
that Colonel Burton wants.
1366
01:28:40,749 --> 01:28:42,960
Tomorrow's the big day, sir.
1367
01:28:45,671 --> 01:28:47,548
I'll tell you one thing.
1368
01:28:47,632 --> 01:28:49,425
Every damn one of these nuts
and bolts...
1369
01:28:49,509 --> 01:28:51,928
has been taken off
and put back on again.
1370
01:28:56,224 --> 01:28:58,644
This wouldn't be flame retardant,
would it?
1371
01:29:00,312 --> 01:29:04,608
You think they made the men
trick this whole thing up?
1372
01:29:04,692 --> 01:29:07,361
It wouldn't surprise me.
1373
01:29:07,445 --> 01:29:09,322
Not a bit.
1374
01:29:21,168 --> 01:29:23,128
Room, attention.
1375
01:29:25,089 --> 01:29:26,757
At ease, gentlemen.
1376
01:29:31,012 --> 01:29:33,139
Looks like you've been working hard.
1377
01:29:37,102 --> 01:29:39,187
- Corporal.
- Sir?
1378
01:29:39,271 --> 01:29:41,732
Let me have one of those M-16s.
1379
01:29:44,985 --> 01:29:47,071
I want to tell you a story.
1380
01:29:48,364 --> 01:29:52,285
You got a problem with that,
Sergeant?
1381
01:29:52,368 --> 01:29:54,245
No, sir.
1382
01:29:54,329 --> 01:29:57,832
About a year ago,
I went to the veterans' hospital...
1383
01:29:57,916 --> 01:30:00,544
to visit a friend of mine
from my flying days.
1384
01:30:01,795 --> 01:30:04,298
Only I took a wrong turn
when I got off the elevator.
1385
01:30:05,591 --> 01:30:08,636
Now, when I look back on it...
1386
01:30:08,719 --> 01:30:11,639
I think I was meant to go down
that corridor.
1387
01:30:12,724 --> 01:30:14,934
Because that's where I met Phil.
1388
01:30:19,439 --> 01:30:21,775
Thank you, Corporal.
1389
01:30:21,858 --> 01:30:25,279
- But, sir...
- Let me finish, Dalton.
1390
01:30:26,780 --> 01:30:31,452
I want to pass on something
I learned about the M-16 from Phil.
1391
01:30:31,536 --> 01:30:34,330
You all know the M-16
better than I do.
1392
01:30:34,414 --> 01:30:38,460
A lot of you used it in Vietnam.
But you were lucky.
1393
01:30:39,586 --> 01:30:41,922
In the early days of that war...
1394
01:30:42,005 --> 01:30:46,301
they sent guys off to fight
with M-16s that jammed in combat.
1395
01:30:46,385 --> 01:30:49,305
A little bit of dust,
a little bit of rain...
1396
01:30:49,388 --> 01:30:52,808
and the gun was useless.
1397
01:30:52,892 --> 01:30:55,979
Maybe those early M-16s
weren't tested properly.
1398
01:30:56,062 --> 01:30:58,314
Maybe somebody somewhere
was more worried...
1399
01:30:58,398 --> 01:31:02,527
about a production schedule
or a promotion...
1400
01:31:02,611 --> 01:31:06,657
than he was about those grunts
in some faraway jungle...
1401
01:31:06,740 --> 01:31:10,619
who might end up
with their stomachs in their hands.
1402
01:31:14,540 --> 01:31:17,835
But you don't know anyone
that happened to, do you?
1403
01:31:17,919 --> 01:31:21,464
No. I'm sure not.
1404
01:31:21,548 --> 01:31:23,717
Otherwise you'd be out there
right now...
1405
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:28,347
making sure that that Bradley
is exactly, and I mean exactly...
1406
01:31:28,430 --> 01:31:32,727
the way it would be
under normal combat conditions.
1407
01:31:32,810 --> 01:31:37,357
With some of your buddies
riding inside, guys like Phil.
1408
01:31:37,440 --> 01:31:42,654
Only Phil has been in a coma
for the last 20 years.
1409
01:31:42,737 --> 01:31:47,701
Since the day his M-16 jammed
somewhere outside of Vinh Long.
1410
01:31:49,620 --> 01:31:53,499
But hell, you don't know the guy.
1411
01:31:55,209 --> 01:31:57,170
Or anybody like him.
1412
01:31:59,464 --> 01:32:01,090
Right?
1413
01:32:52,104 --> 01:32:53,522
Sir?
1414
01:32:54,565 --> 01:32:56,025
Over here!
1415
01:32:56,108 --> 01:32:57,401
Ma'am!
1416
01:33:04,284 --> 01:33:06,202
- General!
- Good morning, sir.
1417
01:33:06,286 --> 01:33:09,164
- Everything all right?
- Fine, sir, just fine.
1418
01:33:16,046 --> 01:33:18,799
Keep coming.
1419
01:33:18,883 --> 01:33:21,677
A little more. Keep coming.
1420
01:33:21,761 --> 01:33:23,680
- Sergeant.
- Sir.
1421
01:33:26,808 --> 01:33:29,769
- Everything all right, Sergeant?
- Fine, sir.
1422
01:33:38,028 --> 01:33:39,447
- Thank you.
- Welcome, sir.
1423
01:33:39,530 --> 01:33:40,865
Welcome, Sergeant.
1424
01:33:48,665 --> 01:33:51,668
Jeez. Looks like some party.
1425
01:33:58,425 --> 01:34:01,178
Ladies and gentlemen,
please be seated.
1426
01:34:01,262 --> 01:34:03,431
Thank you.
1427
01:34:03,514 --> 01:34:07,894
Ladies and gentlemen,
distinguished members of Congress.
1428
01:34:07,977 --> 01:34:10,271
I think it's fair to say that
you'll be seeing enough...
1429
01:34:10,355 --> 01:34:14,860
from this test, to give you
the basis once and for all...
1430
01:34:14,943 --> 01:34:16,320
to form your own conclusion...
1431
01:34:16,403 --> 01:34:20,825
about the sort of systemic excellence
we've been pursuing.
1432
01:34:20,908 --> 01:34:22,994
I will be giving the signal shortly.
1433
01:34:23,077 --> 01:34:28,541
When I do, I want you
to visualise combat conditions.
1434
01:34:28,625 --> 01:34:32,671
Imagine that the men firing
that round are the enemy.
1435
01:34:32,754 --> 01:34:35,841
And that the Bradley,
I don't have to tell you...
1436
01:34:36,967 --> 01:34:39,470
the Bradley is on our side.
1437
01:34:39,553 --> 01:34:43,099
Ladies and gentlemen,
distinguished members of Congress...
1438
01:34:43,182 --> 01:34:47,687
I give you
your Bradley fighting vehicle.
1439
01:35:25,728 --> 01:35:28,314
Can you believe this?
1440
01:36:05,562 --> 01:36:07,106
Sergeant.
1441
01:36:07,189 --> 01:36:09,442
Everything's going to go as planned,
isn't it?
1442
01:36:09,525 --> 01:36:11,444
It will go exactly as it should, sir.
1443
01:36:11,527 --> 01:36:13,529
As planned, right?
1444
01:36:13,613 --> 01:36:15,281
Corporal, this is Sergeant Dalton.
1445
01:36:15,365 --> 01:36:17,075
Move the vehicle about
five yards forward...
1446
01:36:17,158 --> 01:36:19,744
- and then clear out. Over.
- "Roger that."
1447
01:36:22,331 --> 01:36:26,543
For your further edification,
the Bradley can be fired...
1448
01:36:26,627 --> 01:36:28,170
How much fuel is
in those tanks, Sergeant?
1449
01:36:28,254 --> 01:36:29,922
Just enough to do those manoeuvres?
1450
01:36:30,006 --> 01:36:32,425
No more than it would have
if it was in combat, sir.
1451
01:36:32,508 --> 01:36:35,803
Seven TOW missiles fired
from a launcher...
1452
01:36:35,887 --> 01:36:37,096
mounted on the left side...
1453
01:36:37,180 --> 01:36:39,015
And the ammunition
inside the Bradley?
1454
01:36:39,099 --> 01:36:41,518
Up to spec, sir.
1455
01:36:41,601 --> 01:36:43,353
- Whose specs?
- Manoeuvrable...
1456
01:36:43,437 --> 01:36:46,857
- and capable of keeping pace with...
- No!
1457
01:36:46,940 --> 01:36:50,528
Carrying infantry troops
needed to support tank operations...
1458
01:36:51,779 --> 01:36:54,490
more than we have
in the test conditions.
1459
01:36:54,574 --> 01:36:57,535
And the hour is at hand.
1460
01:36:58,620 --> 01:37:02,415
All eyes front
on the Bradley fighting vehicle.
1461
01:37:02,499 --> 01:37:05,168
The vehicle that will carry our boys
to victory...
1462
01:37:05,252 --> 01:37:07,755
for many, many years to come.
1463
01:37:11,801 --> 01:37:14,512
Backblast area clear!
1464
01:37:18,975 --> 01:37:20,518
Fire!
1465
01:38:01,104 --> 01:38:02,981
Who's the best, baby?
1466
01:38:03,064 --> 01:38:05,150
Dalton, Granger!
1467
01:38:08,528 --> 01:38:11,407
- Sir.
- Sir.
1468
01:38:11,490 --> 01:38:14,034
Could you explain, please?
1469
01:38:16,078 --> 01:38:18,122
We tried to tell you, sir.
1470
01:38:18,206 --> 01:38:21,793
You see, sir, when you gave us
that speech last night...
1471
01:38:21,876 --> 01:38:24,754
we had already fixed the vehicle
back to the way it should be.
1472
01:38:28,717 --> 01:38:30,469
So you were...
1473
01:38:31,929 --> 01:38:34,807
- You were ahead of me.
- I don't know about ahead...
1474
01:38:34,890 --> 01:38:35,933
but we've been behind you...
1475
01:38:36,016 --> 01:38:38,728
ever since
you fried those mannequins.
1476
01:38:40,813 --> 01:38:44,150
And the sheep, sir.
Man, that was epic!
1477
01:38:53,744 --> 01:38:56,997
I'm sorry I made you listen
to that lecture now, I...
1478
01:38:57,081 --> 01:39:00,585
Sir, you have nothing
to apologise for, sir.
1479
01:39:03,463 --> 01:39:05,757
We had you figured wrong.
1480
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:08,426
The men come first with you,
and you proved that.
1481
01:39:09,511 --> 01:39:11,763
It was a hell of a good speech
though, sir.
1482
01:39:11,847 --> 01:39:13,223
Any time you want
to give another one...
1483
01:39:13,307 --> 01:39:14,850
you know where to find us.
1484
01:39:17,019 --> 01:39:20,690
Thank you, men. Thank you, all.
1485
01:39:23,067 --> 01:39:24,193
Sir.
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