The thing that bothers me about...
...these early 80s Vietnam movies (like Uncommon Valor & Missing In Action) is they open up showing Americans running for the helicopters. Did this happen to platoon sized units ever? Or is it something that Hollywood made up?
They should have shown them making a stand, if your in a LRRP unit you'd know that running through a rice paddy will get you killed. It was like every man for himself, at least Col. Trautman made an attempt to get Rambo in part 2.