West Point grad lieutenant Jeff Knight matches cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour pros platoon in a trench camp that is . Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his excursion, Jeff takes control, adventures the manual will not allow coping-with realities and has hurt. He returns, now fully respect by superiors and women men. Besides the Viet Cong, the platoon wrestles with the inscrutable villagers, that your G.I.'s formally shield, but also fear as some interact using themcovertly with the Cong, either way subject to bloody reprisals.