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Who survived the final battle?

posted 6 years ago by LordBAElish (2015)
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Or for those who weren't in it, what happened to them?

Sgt. Barnes (KIA)
King (Tour was up before final battle)
Sgt. Elias (KIA – Barnes)
Big Harold ( Alive ?)
Rhah (Alive)
Bunny (KIA)
Sgt. O'Neill (Alive)
Junior (KIA)
Lt. Wolfe (KIA -?)
Francis ( wounded – 2 – timer)
Lerner (KIA ?)
Crawford ?
Gardner (KIA before battle)
Manny (KIA before battle)
Tex ?
Chris (wounded – 2-timer)
Sal (KIA before final battle?)
Warren ?
Morehouse ?
Ace ?
Sanderson (blown up by booby trap?)
Tony
Doc
Captain Harris (Alive)
Flash
Rodriguez
Tubbs

[–] tph890 (489) 6 years ago

I don’t know the names, but I’m pretty sure the final scenes show us which characters survived. The ones we see lived, the ones we don’t probably died. They show a lot of the deaths during the final battle as well.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Big Harold - CASEVAC before the final battle
Crawford - CASEVAC before the final battle
Tex - Injured after first ambush
Lerner - CASEVAC before the final battle
Doc - Survived I think??

O'Neil, Francis, Taylor and Rah all survived along with Dale Dye.

[–] ebhaynz (3689) 6 years ago

Capt Harris lived and assigned Red to take over what's left of the Platoon. Taylor collapsed due to stress but survived. Francis self inflicted a wound and survived, fantasizing about paying the white nurses for blowjobs. A few nominal characters survived, seen throwing NVA bodies into unmarked bomb craters post battle. Rhah lived and he roared "Rhah! Rhah! Rhah!" as Taylor's helicopter took off.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Yep O'Neil thought he was on his way out until Harris assigned him. That's Karma for him 👍

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 5 years ago

ONeil
Rhah
Francis
Taylor
Tony
Doc
Captain Harris

[–] degree7 (821) 5 years ago

Fu Sheng, Morehouse and Tubbs were all killed when Lt. Wolfe called in artillery on the wrong coordinates.

[–] Dionysus481 (148) 4 years ago

I always thought Doc died. He got shot right before Wolfe, and went down wincing about, then kind of still. Do they show him at the end?

[–] KaiMaster (904) 4 years ago

He is briefly at the end, sitting on the ground.

[–] BourbonKing (5778) 4 years ago

I've only seen this movie in its entirety about three times over the years, but to me the point of not showing all of the characters at the end was because as a war movie you learn to accept that those who aren't there are probably already dead. They highlighted Kevin Dillon and McGinley's characters as still alive but basically ruined men at the end. Those that they did show remind us that not everyone makes it and if they do they probably have to stay and fight on in a fruitless war.

[–] KaiMaster (904) 3 years ago

Bunny (Kevin Dillon) is shown getting killed.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

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[–] Dionysus481 (148) 2 years ago

Ebenhoch (guy with the long moustache seen throughout but I don't think had any speaking parts) also can be seen at the end.