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In August 1967, a group of young men (the “boys” referenced in the movie title) arrive for recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. They include a draft dodging hippie, Dave Bisbee, who is delivered in handcuffs from Seattle, Washington by FBI agents. Other recruit trainee characters include a hardened drug dealer, Tyrone Washington, from Chicago, Illinois; a naive and unassuming Billy Ray Pike from Galveston, Texas; a streetwise ladies’ man, Vinnie Fazio, from Brooklyn, New York, and a mild-mannered aspiring writer Alvin Foster from Emporia, Kansas, who begins writing a journal detailing his experiences.

Marine Corps Training and Deployment

The five young men go through Marine Corps boot camp together. The training is dehumanizing and brutal, designed to make them think and act as a unified team. Sergeant Loyce and Staff Sergeant Aquilla use a combination of extreme training, brute force, and their own combat experience to teach the recruits. Washington’s leadership skills flourish and he is promoted to Platoon Guide. After recruit training, the five are then assigned to the same Marine FMF unit and shipped to Vietnam. As their transport ship docks, a bombardment from enemy artillery begins. To these characters, Vietnam is a bewildering chaos of bureaucratic incompetence, callous officers concerned only with monthly body counts, and the constant threat of death.

Challenges in Vietnam

The Marines’ first firefight occurs while they are taking “vital supplies” to an army outpost. Those supplies turn out to be crates of cigarettes, liquor and furniture being sent to a general for his birthday, and two men die in the fighting. The officers in Company C are mostly incompetents who endanger the lives of their men through blind adherence to rules or timetables; their nervous Marines open fire on anyone and anything at the slightest provocation.

The Soccer Game

In January 1968, Company C is ordered by its commanding officer to throw (lose) a soccer game against a team of South Vietnamese in order to bolster the morale of their ally. The Americans are told that if they lose, they will see no more combat; if they win, they will be sent to Khe Sanh. Despite everything, the Americans win. The game ends with a Vietcong attack, during which Foster heroically throws himself on a grenade to save some children.

Final Moments

The film concludes with the final entry in Foster’s journal, written moments before his death: “I don’t know why I should even bother to write in this journal anymore. Because after what happened today, who the hell is ever going to believe it? We actually had a chance to get out of this goddamn war. All we had to do was throw the game and walk away. But for some reason, we just couldn’t. For some reason, winning that stupid game was more important than saving our ass. So I guess we’ll just keep on walking into one bloody mess after another, until somebody finally figures out that living has got to be more important than winning.”

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