Kurtz staged Operation Archangell with combined local forces, rated a major success.
8 seconds sound clip from the Apocalypse Now movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:02:43 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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[...]
- Dear Eva, today was really a new one. Almost got eaten alive by a fucking tiger.
- Really un-fucking-believable, you know?
- Thought you might have heard by now from Elwood. I'll be coming home...
- October 1967, on special assignment, Kon Tum Province, II Corps.
- Kurtz staged Operation Archangell with combined local forces, rated a major success.
- He received no official clearance. He just thought it up and did it.
- They were gonna nail his ass to the floorboards for that one.
- But after the press got a hold of it, they promoted him to full colonel instead.
- Oh, man, the bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.
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