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(soldiers shouting indistinctly)
I pledge allegiance
to the flag
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation, under God,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Hurry!
Fort Bumblefoot is under attack.
Quick. Pow, pow, pow.
They're coming.
No one gets past Electric Elie.
Or me, Samurai Sam.
Oh, no! An "in-surgeon"!
Secure the gate!
Okay, guys, send the commander back to HQ.
He still has three boxes to unpack.
He doesn't have time for boxes.
Fort Bumblefoot is taking fire.
And stop calling Meribeth an insurgent, okay?
- Pull back. -(Elie screams)
Pull back. Pull back!
Shh.
- Oh, sneak attack! -(Elie and Sam scream)
- Evacuate! Run! -(Heather growls)
Don't tear my sheets. Run. Run.
- Oh, I'm trapped. -(giggling)
Save yourselves.
No, don't come back for 15 minutes!
-(toy squeaking) Tonya!
-(knocking on door) - Tonya!
Tonya, open up.
If you changed the locks on our house again,
- I swear, I'll... - Really?
This is what "I promise to do better" looks like?
Just let me in.
You smell like a whiskey plant.
Yeah, well, don't worry about it, I'll sleep it off.
You know I have your commander on speed dial, right?
So help me, Michael, you could quit caring about me,
but you better find a way to be the man
those girls in there need you to be--
no, deserve for you to be.
MICHAEL (quietly): Stupid.
Gon' mind your own business?
Yes.
Well, we met the neighbors.
Tac unit nine,
shots fired call.
Lanier and Kennesaw. Lanier and Kennesaw.
Suspect believed to be in the house.
Suspect mid-30s, six-one, 200 pounds.
FA“
We need one in the back!
Go! Go, go, g0, 90, 90!
All right, give me your other hand.
Papi! -OFFICER: You're gonna get up slowly.
He just fell back to sleep.
There's my girl.
How you doing, sweetie? Huh?
There's my girl.
Hey, baby.
Amanda, what you doing?
You haven't heard?
- Or seen the news? - What's wrong?
We're going to stay with my mom and Herb in Savannah
until you get back.
What?
NEWSCASTER (on TV): ...joining our newscast.
It was announced
a short time ago that Fort Stewart
will be deploying more than 1,000...
Baby, we don't even know if that's my unit, all right?
Julie and Amy already called me.
(newscaster continues indistinctly)
I just-- I don't know what I'm gonna do
with her and with work
-and nobody to watch her. - Hey, hey.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Hey, look at me.
Slow down, baby.
You don't have to worry about a thing.
You can stay here.
Near the base, near the other wives,
the other kids.
You're gonna have more of what you need here
than at your mom's.
All right? Trust me.
GEORGE W. BUSH (on TV): So I've committed
more than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq.
The vast majority of them-- five brigades--
will be deployed to Baghdad.
If we increase our support
at this crucial moment and help the Iraqis
break the current cycle of violence...
Mom, what's a prime number again?
Mom?
Mm, numbers only divisible by one and themselves.
Hey, Mom, sorry, I'm back.
: Well, I know you're busy
so I won't keep you, dear.
But I'm telling you, it's the reason he can't sleep.
Your boy needs his mother.
Ma, Ma.
I, um...
I'm getting deployed to Iraq.
(soldiers calling out indistinctly)
DARREN". I just came from seeing
Colonel Smith, sir.
I'm on the list.
I know.
The timing is not ideal, son.
You just finished basic.
I'd like for you to have
more non-combat experience first, but, uh,
a military-wide shortage of chaplains says otherwise.
Infantry battalion, he said.
Surge unit.
They're the tip of the spear.
Moving headlong every day into trip wire, snipers,
driving roads laced with lEDs.
Well, I signed up to be where the need is, sir.
12 months will go by fast.
A bit faster than 15, for sure.
15, Chaplain.
Fifteen.
Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay, time-out.
Ah, time-out, time-out.
- Gotcha. - You missed!
- You missed. -What do you mean I missed? -ELIE: Daddy.
I just hit you. I totally hit you-- miss?
Daddy. Daddy. - What's up?
-(coughs) - Sweetie?
- To cheer... (coughs) Elie.
-...us up. -Honey. Honey. Where's your inhaler?
- Sweetie, sweetie, sweetie. - Where's your inhaler?
-(Elie groans) -Where is it? You don't have it? Okay.
Um, I'm gonna go get the spare...
I'm gonna go get the spare. Hang on a second.
Hey, whoa, whoa, here it is. I got it. I got it.
- You got it? - I got it. I got it.
Come on, bug, up, up, up, up. Sit up, sit up, sit up.
You ready? One. Ready?
- Huh? You okay? - Ready, one more?
-(inhales deeply) - Just breathe.
- Good. Okay. - Okay?
- All right, come here. - Okay, sweetheart.
- Let's lie down, honey. - You're okay.
- All right, we are good. -(sighs)
- We are good. - Good, good, good.
- You okay? - We're good.
You good? Yeah.
Ah. Yeah. Y-Y-Y-Yeah.
Okay, go. Go.
FA“
Hey.
Thanks for coming, guys.
- Heather, look who it is. - Yeah.
Oh.
Oh. Hi.
Darren Turner.
Uh, Chaplain Turner, actually.
It's nice to meet you.
Major Michael Lewis.
Oh.
Uh, Tonya. Nice to meet you.
- You, too. - Properly, this time.
I'm Heather. It's so nice to meet you.
You, too.
Do you want to get a drink?
- Uh, yeah, sure. Thanks. - Yeah.
-(indistinct chatter) -(Darren sighs)
Got a cold one?
Yeah, man, I've been icing them since dawn.
There you go.
Chaplain, huh?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
So I guess you really enjoyed the show the other day.
Oh, look, man, all I know is
we all got lives going on in our houses,
and family or not, life's just plain hard.
The family I got in Iraq is a crazy bunch,
but they're easier to deal with than this one.
Well, it's the first tour for me,
so I'll take any advice you got.
Leave your heart at home.
Hey, babe, can you...?!
: Oh, hi.
You're right there.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Just watching you.
Oh, yeah?
I look real cute right now.
Hmm. (gig9le$)
Come here.
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