MISSION OF THE DUTY
More than 45 a thousand Mountain dwellers had been trained by the Armed Forces Special of the U.S.A between 1961 and 1971.
Me he seems to a route with recent vestiges.
Certain, Lieutenant. I suggest that let us follow well to devagar and with care.
He is., we go to advance.
Granada! They are covered!
The two in point!
it goes, it goes, it goes!
They are covered!
Ambush!
To the north!
He is lowered!
That devils is this?
That devils?
Charlie if removes.
Why it would make this?
They would have in them immobilized, as a pig in the slaughter house.
It is hair-raising.
Lieutenant, I go to give one looked at.
It goes.
Advancing.
That devils are, aboriginals?
Not accurately, but seemed.
We are American, we have food and salt.
It hears, we will not go off, certain?
We have food and salt.
We will change with vocês.
We are its friends, welded.
We have food to change.
We will not have problems with vocês.
The soldiers are its friends. We have food.
Food.
Lieutenant.
All, are well calm.
We do not want to fight with vocês. We did not come here to fight with vocês.
Lieutenant, I find that it wants that we go with them.
Well, because not? They finish to save our back ones.
Very well, to devagar well, all lower its weapons.
Well, we go going, we go with them.
Ei, what it finds that they are?
Good, I do not find that they are Apache. You yes?
Probably they are Montanheses.
What?
Mountain dwellers, possibly Katus.
They are the aboriginals of this region.
Aboriginals? he sounds as another classroom of disease.
I find that he is in saying to be here.
I have the hunch of that we are the point…
… of converting in them into attraction in a barbecue.
Sir, sees some problem in this?
Good, Percell, we have our weapons.
It is., also the VC.
Ei, Sergeant, see this.
It seems that it could be American.
I find that it says our language.
This place is penetrates. All this place is strange.
This is Krnoon. It is the head of the people.
It wants to know who is vocês.
Goldman Lieutenant. Brave company.
Third Battalion, Infantry 44, Brigade of Infantry 196.
Who is you? Kithem.
Kithem? thus, simply Kithem?
It is a Katu name. These people are Katu.
E that makes in the region, Goldman Lieutenant?
Patrolling.
Why?
Intelligence informed that it has routes of the VC this way.
We were sent to find them. E seems we made that it.
Exactly thus we find VC of all skill.
They had been attacked?
It is, we were attacked.
We were almost verwhelmed, and these natives had helped in them.
I want to be thankful therefore.
He is not thankful to me.
He was observing and he did not want to pass for what they had passed.
That type of soldier was?
It was inside and now I am it are.
It only says that we are been thankful.
It said that the VC are children of pigs…
… and it always is thankful for killing a pig fat person.
He could add that he feels the same for the troops of the government.
How one feels in relation the North Americans?
This is its only imperfection, that pleases it.
The head said that vocês they can consider itself invited of the village.
But that they do not use to advantage themselves of the hospitality.
This is a war zone. It does not have nothing of hospitality in this.
Who finds that it is?
I do not know who and nor what it is…
… but, it must have been in a world of privations to be so far.
Soon it finishes in the way of this deceit.
Affirmative, them they had helped in them.
We have tês VC died and I do not know how many wounded. Exchange.
We need that these people enter in the war, 6…
… we authorize a project of Pacific action for the people. Exchange.
Affirmative. We will wait its embarkment. Brave 2-6, I disconnect.
That embarkment is this, Lieutenant?
Weapons and suppliments. They want that let us be here…
… that let us establish a strategical village…
… and let us help the natives to cut the suppliment routes of the VC.
What they had said of the Kithem?
Well, they will make what they can for there. while let us inquire this way.
Horn. What?
What it has with suppliments?
They are for the villagers. The brigade said textualmente:
“If the members of a Katu tribe want to eliminate VC…
… they must have the tools to make well done ".
Ei, only can be playing. We are giving to weapons they?
I am not playing, will bring rifles, a machine gun, also mortars.
Because they do not return these weapons of where they had come.
It says the head, with the weapons the Katus can defend its families and the people.
They do not need to defend itself.
It only says.
I cannot understand, they are the saved one as are.
They fight with spears and arrows and nobody are worried about them.
But if to give true weapons to them, go to finish as enemy true.
They will be as the whites.
It looks at I have my orders. It understands the orders?
They are giving death sentence to them.
Simply it says the head that these are its weapons.
My men are apt to train its men to use them.
Now it says.
Lieutenant, it has reason.
What? He is wild?
This is the chance so that these people advance for century 20.
We have the chance of helps to make them it.
Knights and warriors.
What we have here is a completely automatic rifle.
5,56 millimeters, operated by gas, cooled for air and porter.
This does not go to function, certain?
Good, good, they wait one instant.
This is a bullet.
Ba. .la. They repeat, ba. .la.
Ba. .la.
Good, good.
This is a porter.
Porter.
He is surprising. Vocês is so pretty.
Certain, now it puts the porter here inside…
… they put the bullet here behind…
… and they pull the trigger. This is the trigger, and…
… they shoot. Easy, not?
Easy, not?
Very well, youngsters. Now we go to point this baby scientifically.
There we go off the cartridges.
They notice that to engage the clutch, the shot mechanism, has that to unblock.
Now they catch the cartridge with the hands…
… they locate, they place, they slide its hands for the pipe, thus.
They are certifyd to keep hands in the face close to the mouth. They understand?
It is well, let us start of new.
Very well, my friend. automatic knot is hour of pô it.
Here we go.
It is well, holds firm. It only leans in the trigger. Good?
Soon, in front.
Not, not, not, it puts the finger.
It does not know? I never trained a new man with the full belly.
It only uses between six and eight bullets. That this does not come back to happen.
Knights and warriors, rifles above, fingers are of the triggers now.
A ready and conferred porter.
They liberate the security constraint and they leave weapon in the automatic one.
My order, ready, points…
… fire.
It is.! this is my boy! it is.!
They locate they leave and it to fall.
What it has?
Visits. Friends its.
I am Tung Commander.
head of the District of this province.
What they make here, Americans?
I am Goldman Lieutenant, gentleman.
The Brave Company was charged to sweep this zone.
I heard the sound of the strong shots, Lieutenant.
It gave weapons to this people?
Yes, Sir. We teach to use them.
The brigade authorizeed a Pacific Program of training for the village.
I did not approve the program, Lieutenant.
No aboriginal tribe can be seted…
… without special permission of the Civil Authority.
E this I am. He disarms them immediately.
Not, Sir, I cannot make this.
We are treating to close routes VC in this zone.
Lieutenant, the routes also are inside of my jurisdiction.
The commercial caravans use that them are an important one…
… source of resources for the central government.
Tung commander, I have my orders.
You.
It is therefore that it is here. It is for backwards of this?
Not.
I will take this subject to its superiors, Lieutenant.
Soon base will be returning to its encampment, assures to it.
Goldman lieutenant…
… he has very well-taken care of. This is a very dangerous place.
Ei, Kithem. What it knows of this face?
It is the head of the district.
He comes here many times to the year.
He comes to intimidate the young.
He says the villagers how much he goes to cost its taxes.
He steals some chickens, and he goes even so.
This people cannot make nothing to the respect?
While they are poor and not to threaten it, she has a certain peace.
Probably this goes to move.
What it finds that they will make? If to defend with rocks and woods.
It preferred that they had not come.
These people do not represent nothing for vocês, and its superiors.
They only want to use them.
We are trying to help.
Then, cannons and weapons are not the reply.
If they want to help, make decent things. They do not teach them to kill.
It helps to live them it, or this war will destroy its appraises for the life.
They will not be able to always send food and suppliments.
We have that to help this people to be more self-sufficient.
They would have to be able to sow what they need, Lieutenant.
I want to say that this ground is so rich how much of the Mississippi.
Sir, if the Commander in them sent some pigs and hens…
… we could construct for this people some corrals.
This is good. very well, let us see its ideas.
I do not know nothing of agriculture. Lieutenant.
I less still, Hate the society. I am a man of the cement and asphalt.
Good, we would not be of much aid with agriculture, is not same?
Not, I feel very. Not, I feel very.
Then they can make fossas. If it is that they are smart for this.
Well, let us make gentlemen.
How it goes going Johnson?
It seems that they had been born for this, Lieutenant.
Vocês likes eggs?
They know, of where I come say that “an egg to the day moves away the doctor”.
Some time had heard this?
I have an idea for tomorrow, eggs fritos. What they find?
It did not have luck, my friend?
Perhaps Ei, is using isca made a mistake.
It tries one of these, is.?
It is well…, hour of the lunch.
We go, to take the fish, staff. They take the fish. We go.
Good, not?
How it goes going?
It says a thing to me, as it came to stop here?
E which its true name?
It said already you, Kithem.
It is., and I heard, but I found that it was one face of the Forces special.
Here, before, it had many green berets…
… working with the Mountain dwellers and this it makes sensible for me.
It has very well-taken care of, Sergeant…
… Old an Apache one has dictated, that it says…
… it does not intervine in that it cannot fix.
Thanks a lot. This was of great aid.
I go to work in the information.
Horn, sees my hands. It says what it sees.
Society? Not., bubbles, Horn. It sees bubbles.
I do not catch a hammer in the hands makes 3 years, this killing is me.
Taste very of this, but killing is me.
Sergeant, these things are normal for much people.
What? to live with red skin?
To only live.
It knows this is the first time since that I am in the army…
… that I feel as if it had made something of good.
It knows is legal to construct things instead of knocking down them.
It knows, Horn? this is well different of everything what already we made.
Certainty, if feels well?
It is., I feel myself well.
Kithem, what it had?
A suppliment caravan VC advancing for this route.
VC, VC.
Very well. Gentlemen this is what we were waiting.
The first team with me. It prepares them, Sergeant.
Very well, we go to prepare an ambush in form of L.
Johnson. Yes.
He has taken its mortar team for that line.
Baker and Ruiz…
… they take the riflemen and this machine gun to the central point.
Taylor, has explosives with you? Yes.
Very well, it has taken some riflemen for the route.
It withholds them now, does not kill them.
The vocês remaining portion, catches this machine gun and comes with me.
No colloquy beyond this point. We go going.
Lieutenant, we have problems.
What it had?
These are not VC.
It looks at the M-16 that uses.
E sees the uniform of this face.
It has a patch there. It must be some type of officer.
Drug, is the same hashmark of the men of the Tung.
It is., Sir, is yes.
Ei, gives one looked in this.
The black gold. Pure raw opium.
It must be valid millions, Sergeant.
Tung commander, we have a small problem here.
It seems that some of its men are smuggling opium.
Dalby colonel, does not have tests that they had been my men.
I do not know, some uniforms well are seemed.
Probably deserters.
Colonel, the opium caravans make this route to the centuries.
My government has made everything to its reach withholds them.
Apparently it has not had much success.
I say, is a great amount of drug.
It is…
The opium will be in my office for inquiry.
They are my orders, that by the way have been approved for Saigón.
It says me, Commander. Its efforts to keep the open routes…
… it does not have nothing to see with the opium traffic, or has?
I do not have that to accept its insults.
Tung commander, last thing in the world that I want…
… it is any disagreement with our South Vietnamese allies.
But in this in case that I am making an exception.
You have given problems for the MacV Command since the first day.
We cannot gain this war with the people aid…
… for which you can easily be personages as…
… always in interrupting.
It is felt, Commander. Not yet I finished.
I will inform this its superiors.
Vocês will be transferred of my district, immediately.
Then, in its it informs treats to say, that I treated an officer…
… of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces with total disrespect.
Because this is the truth.
It will see that I consider you not less than a pirate.
It can leave, Commander.
It never comes back to touch one of my men thus.
Never, it understood?
If finding in the forest, I will cut to the fingers and ears to you…
… and I will make a necklace with them.
Drug, until could cut its language.
It said well, Sergeant.
You have its orders, Lieutenant. For how much time, I do not know.
Yes, Sir.
If he remembers this face? He goes…, was with classroom.
He is., the Sergeant defecated in the Tung, not? Definitively it will not see more to it.
Appositive that it will have a more easy work in Saigón as politician.
He is Dalby Colonel left with its, will change them to It for pig butter.
It needs aid?
It is., necessary yes.
I have as many bubbles in the hands, that I cannot make nothing.
Because it does not beat fort to me with this, certain?
It is. Seems that already I made this before.
Good, of where I come, each child knows as to cut wood.
She is.? to say I go you, old friend.
It is to a great distance of Howling Mountains.
Here it is not nothing different.
The montanhesos are caipiras, this people like to live in peace.
I never thought about this.
In this it has reason.
For the time being I say, you.
In the first day where let us stow here, we saw all these natives…
… and we saw this boy white of great legs…
… we think that we were wild.
Good, each time that sees a uniform man, I know that it is wild.
It is., I know, but I say now you, sincerely, for God.
Now that we are to a time here, you know, thus living…
… already it does not seem so wild.
Good, we go to give one looked at pra to see what we have here.
It is., perfect.
Oi, doçura.
It comes here.
Oi, heart. how are you?
This is for us? For the Danny, and me.
Beauty, debtor doçura. Debtor.
This, this are legal, find. What it is this?
One sarong, Danny. It is as a dress.
It is a dress. A dress for party.
For party? Horn, that party?
Gentlemen, attention please.
According to Katu custom, vocês would have to entertain in them.
Sergeant!
Mortar attack!
We go! They are covered!
Mortar attack!
They go, catch its weapons!
They are covered!
Horn. Horn.
Horn, has that to deliver it. It belongs they.
She has that to deliver it, Horn.
Yes, she can confirm? Exchange.
Control ARVN affirms that it is a great case…
… of changed identity, 6. Exchange.
Yes, Sir. Which the orders? Exchange.
Somebody in Saigon already gave for locked up, 6.
The mission is cancelled. It takes off its people from there. Exchange.
Understood. Exchange and I disconnect.
Lieutenant?
The Commander seems to find…
… that the South Vietnamese had confused with a village VC.
He has that to be the Tung, everybody knows of this.
Dalby colonel gave to the order this morning to cancel the mission.
We go even so.
You if did not surprise.
I am not surpreso.
What it said?
It said that the Americans are as garotões.
He comes, they break the things, they create problems…
… and soon they are gone so that others see the disaster.
We go going.
One instant, Lieutenant.
Kithem, you can come back with people, wise person?
It is., I do not blame it.
But it had that to ask. It is taken care of, heard?
Goldman lieutenant. I am contented to see it before if it goes.
How it knows of my orders?
Much escapes little me, Lieutenant. Much little.
This is obvious.
What it goes to make with the Katu?
Tung Commander, Sergeant. Mr. Comandante Tung, for you.
What goes to make with the villagers, Tung?
Well…
… we have intention to continue the workmanship that they had initiated, Lieutenant.
In some weeks it will be a fortified village.
An island of security in a danger sea.
It will be a penalty not to be here to see.
This is not a penalty. It leaves to say what it is a penalty…
Anderson. It makes the men to advance.
They will be well. They are strong people.
Already they had passed worse things, this, they had passed.
It is., I believe this very.
Shots! In the town!
Perhaps it was not there.
It does not have error in this.
To the devil with this, I go to come back.
Sergeant, waits a moment!
We go with you.
Johnson, goes in the front. He leaves its things.
Baker, covers the rear. We go!
Where it is the remaining portion of the weapons?
I do not know.
You have lain!
Ei!
What they make here?
We follow some lixeiros.
Lieutenant, has its orders.
My orders are to help the people of this village.
This is what we will go to make.
I have an order for you, Tung.
Skirt daqui in thirty seconds.
They cannot make this. I am an ally!
One… Two…
A moment!
I have many friends in Saigón and the North American Armed Forces.
Three… four. To the devil with this.
Twenty and seven, twenty and eight.
Its superiors will know of this, Lieutenant.
They will not be contented when to know of this.
Lieutenant, the alliance of our forces was weak, but exactly thus.
In front!
Already I go!
Thailand is well far.
I thank the contacts with the missionaries.
With a little of luck, I find we will make that it.
It knows? it did not like me.
Good, I also did not feel me gotten passionate by you.
He has some friends in house who will ask for me.
They give to this, and say that I am well
She is., I will make this, Sergeant Carter.
How she is that they know?
The brigade informed for the radio the two days.
Mayor sergeant Carter, of the Group of the Forces Special.
Two Stars of Silver, nothing badly.
Honrosa E low.
It understands, makes me to this to feel in relation you special.
The face that saved my back one, is not a deserter.
It takes care of of this people, Sergeant.
Yes, Sir.
I find that he tired to kill this people and he decided to help them.
He is, now, is well, this is not a subversive idea?
Not, he is not…
Legend: aRGENTeaM Translation: Marza Zerbinato Revision: J.Ritter