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It's had quite an impact.
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So much so the navy have decided
to go to great lengths to protect it.
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That's why you're here.
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You're to pair with one of them,
keep his ass1 safe.
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Your job is to keep him alive
so he can do his job.
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Begging the major's pardon, but I believe
I'd best serve the Corps2 killing3 Japs,
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not baby-sitting some Indian.
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Enders, we didn't pick
your name out of a hat.
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We need good marines.
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That's why you're standing5 here.
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Take a look.
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It's a Navajo. Or it was.
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Tortured to death by Japanese
intelligence trying to bust6 our code.
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Fortunately, he couldn't help them
even if he wanted to.
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- Sir?
- Man's a Navajo, not a codetalker.
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Code's based on their language,
but it is still a code.
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Tojo would like nothing more
than to catch a live one.
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What I'm about to tell you, Corporal,
cannot leave this room.
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Under no circumstances can you allow
your codetalker to fall into enemy hands.
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Your mission is to protect the code...
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at all costs.
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You understand me?
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Yes, sir, I do.
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Good.
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Congratulations. You just made sergeant7.
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Keep those hands vertical8.
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Way to go, marine4.
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Fortino, take over.
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Hey... That was you, right,
sitting in front of the major's office?
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Yeah. Listen, I'm Pete Henderson.
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They call me Ox.
Not cos of my big muscles or anything.
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I'm from Oxnard, California.
Just north of Hollywood a ways.
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So you're with JASCO too, huh?
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Hey, know where we might find
2nd Joint9 Assault Signal?
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Hey, know where we might find
2nd Joint Assault Signal?
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No fucking idea, mac.
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Thanks. Thanks a bunch.
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I've never seen so many white men.
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They've never seen so many Navajo.
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Looks to me like you got to see
a little action there.
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Me too.
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Jap sons of bitches
shot me right in the ass.
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You believe that shit?
I wasn't running or nothing.
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So, your duty with JASCO have anything
to do with these Navajo radiomen?
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I'm not at liberty to say.
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I see you got a new stripe there. Me too.
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So I'm guessing the orders you can't tell
me are the same orders I can't tell you.
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Hell of a thing, huh?
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Ain't a democracy, Sergeant.
It's the marines.
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Yeah.