Personnel.
April .
Subject: Change of duty request form.
-Boy, this is sheer poetry!
-Go on, Doc.
For two years and four months
lve served on this vessel as cargo officer.
l feel my continued service aboard can
only reduce my usefulness to the Navy...
...and increase disharmony
aboard this ship.
How about that?
lt is therefore urgently requested...
...that l be ordered to combat duty,
preferably
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Men Of Honor Script
[ Waves Crashing ]
[TVNewscaster] Thirtysix
hours ago, anAmerican B-52 bomber...
crashedinto
the MediterraneanSea.
Moments before impact,
the bombers crew...
jettisoned a 36-megaton
nuclearwarhead.
Thebomb, capable ofleveling
amajorcity, has beenlostatsea.
Underwayat this houris thegreatest
navalsearch in humanhistory.
Whatdoyou
G.I. JANE
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by
David Twohy
FIRST DRAFT
August 6, 1995
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FADE IN:
INT. SENATE HEARING ROOM - CAPITOL BLDG. - DAY
Blinding in their white uniforms, naval flag officers sit
in the audience, showing their support for THEODORE HAYES,
a 50-year-old civilian. This is his confirmation hearing.
Reading from prepared material:
HAYES
... last few years have brought many
advances in the interests of women
personnel engaged,
only men were so honoured.
One of these men
was Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw.
Raymond Shaw was returned
from combat and flown to Washington
to be decorated personally
by the President of the United States.
This is why his presence,
or that of any Medal of Honor winner,
is sufficient to bring generals
to their feet, saluting.
Congratulations, son. How do you feel?
Like Captain Id
personnel armed with AKs and a few RPGs... And in
the third Jeep are two blindfolded, not very threatening
Lebanese soldiers. And as the speeding convoy passes a
captured Israeli Armored Personnel Carrier covered with
Arabic graffiti, looking down on them from huge murals are
the stern visages of the Ayatollah Khomeini, and a Hezbollah
religious leader, the Sheikh Fadlallah... And, suddenly the
c