Platoon Leader

A young officer, just out of West Point is sent to Vietnam, where the men don’t respect him until he gets wounded and returns to be a wiser soldier and a better commander.

West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight (Michael Dudikoff) meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara’s (Robert F. Lyons) tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, experiences the manual doesn’t allow coping with all realities and gets wounded. He returns, now fully respect by men and superiors. Besides the Vietcong, the platoon wrestles with the inscrutable villagers, which the GIs officially protect, but also fear as some collaborate with them, other covertly with the Cong, either way subject to bloody reprisals.

Lisatud 10.03.2022, 924 411 992b, YTS.LT

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