The NIS agent who took Dawson and Downey's statements maintains they were trying to prevent Santiago from naming Dawson in a fenceline shooting incident.
10 seconds sound clip from the A Few Good Men movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:05:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Okay.
- I understand we had some trouble over the weekend down in Cuba?
- Uh, yes, sir. This past Friday.
- Santiago died at the base hospital approximately an hour later.
- They're scheduled to have a hearing down in Cuba this afternoon at 1600.
- Dawson and Downey are both recruiting-poster Marines.
- Santiago was known to be a screwup.
- I was thinking it sounded an awful lot like a Code Red.
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