The movie portrayed a strong sense of working as a team and having each others back. Throughout the movie, General Garrison keeps reminding the soldiers especially LTC Danny Mcknight that no one should be left behind. The first time he said it was to Sergeant Eversmann team, rangers chalk four, when the soldiers were ready to leave to the city for the mission, he came by to one chopper and bid the soldiers good luck. Eversmann realizes that Garrison never did that kind of a thing before.  When the first black hawk went down, Garrison from the home base instructed the soldiers to set up a perimeter to evacuate the wounded from the chopper. He did so consecutively for the two other crash sites as well. When his men were getting hit really bad, He spoke to the General of the Pakistan Military demanding help for reinforcement to get his men out of that city.

When the final  black hawk went down having pilot Michael Durant,the ground forces could not reach them due to the road blocks and heavy firing. Thats when two delta snipers, Shughart and Gordon ask permission to go down and secure the perimeter where the chopper was located, fully aware of the risk they were taking and they would lose their lives as huge crowd of angry  Somalies were coming their way.

In this movie, the soldiers would risk getting into hostile situations, situations in which med attention cannot be reached to them, just so that they could save their fellow soldiers and bring them back to home base.

There was an instance where the body of one pilot was stuck inside the chopper, situated in a hostile area where guns are fired from dusk to dawn. Yet, the soldiers did not leave the pilot there. They proceeded to dismantle the chopper to remove the pilot from within.

Another instance is when all the wounded soldiers were rounded up and loaded in the truck. LTC Danny Mcknight and the soldier driving were badly wounded so much that the soldier probably lost his eyesight and Danny got shot in the neck, yet they kept driving to get the men back to the base.

During the last scenes of the movie, due the large amounts of wounded soldiers, filling the trucks, a few soldiers, those under Sergeant Eversmann command, chose to walk it down through the gun fire.

In this movie, the unit does everything it can in its power, it even pushes its boundaries to make sure that its soldiers do not get left behind. Here, they have each others back, always on the look out for the other and they do not leave till everyone is rounded up, including the soldiers that lost their lives in the war.

Work Cited,

Black Hawk down. Dir. Ridley. Scott. 2001. Solar Movies.

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Group discipline also known as the “code red” is practiced in every unit of the army. It is the way in which soldiers are made tough and disciplined to the order given to them to protect the country. The movie demonstrates both the pros and cons of having this kind of discipline. Though not found in any book, the code red is well aware amongst the soldiers in the marine core.

The benefit of having a code red is that it helps a soldier never repeat a mistake again. It disciplines them. This is shown when Lt Daniel Kaffee, the counselor for the accused brought Cpl Jeffrey Barnes as witness. Jeffrey narrates his incident of how a code red was performed on him and it worked to his benefit. It disciplined him never to have his gun slip. This shows the benefit of having group discipline. Soldiers help their fellow soldiers toughen up by showing a little bit of harsh treatment.

However, the group discipline can go wrong in many ways, It targets the weaker soldiers of the unit, like that of William Santiago, who died cause of this treatment. Instead of having him transferred, his superiors decided to train him instead and ordered a code red which eventually led to his death. By targeting the weaker section of the unit, they should be protected by their fellow soldiers, not mistreated in the name of discipline. There are other ways in which discipline can be enforced in a unit, but by beating up and harming another human just so that he follows the code, is incorrect.

The risk or the worry when the military considers itself better than the population it serves is the training that the military uses to train it soldiers to be disciplined and tough and loyal. The training can be hazardous to the life of a weak soldier like Santiago who was desperately begging for a transfer from gitmo. In this movie, the superior Col. Nathan Jessup and Lt. Jonathan Kendrick, found it better to train Santiago than offer him a transfer. They believed that if he was transferred, he would be endangering the lives of a people he protected. They even ignored his medical records which showed symptoms of his coronary disorder and asked his fellow soldiers Dawson and Downey to perform the code red. The two soldiers just followed orders given to them by their superiors as they were disciplined in that way to do so. When Santiago Col Jessup thought it better to lie about the transfer than admit that he may be the reason for the death of Santiago.

Work Cited

A Few Good Men. Dir. Rob Reiner. Prod. Rob Reiner, David Brown, and Andrew Scheinman. By Aaron Sorkin. Perf. Aaron Sorkin, Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, and Kevin Bacon. Columbia Pictures, 1992.

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This is one of the movies id watch again and again. Tom Hanks did a marvelous role as Captain John Miller in this film. The way he conducted his squad and commanded it to search for Paratrooper James Francis Ryan. The movie is set during the World War 2  where Miller and his squad are set about to find Ryan, whose three brothers had all been killed in different locations. The news about his brothers death was brought to the notice of  General George Marshall who realized that he had to send three funeral telegrams at the same time to Ryan’s Mother.

In order to alleviate the grieving woman’s sorrow, the general decides to find the fourth son and send him home immediately. Thus begins the journey where Tom Hanks (Captain Miller) and his squad set about in search of Ryan (Matt Damon). Through the journey the men in squad develop a close friendship due to the hardships they face on the way.

On finally finding Ryan, he is shocked to hear about his brothers death. But he refuses to go home with Miller and the squad. He says he intends to stay “with the only brothers [he has] left.” This shows his loyalty and devotion to his fellow soldiers fighting with him. Miller realizing Ryan made up his mind decides to stay to too, though is exasperated by Ryan’s Decision. Miller and his crew take up arms over the defense of the bridge at Ramelle ( the place where Ryan was stationed) and wait for the impending doom of the Germans trying to seize the bridge. At the end Miller and most of the crew members die and the audience are taken back to the present where Ryan, now an elderly veteran shows his tribute to Miller grave.

I think the wonderful part of the movie is it perfectly portrays the tension between following orders and self preservation. Ryan could at any time been off with  Miller and the crew and in the safe comforts of his home and mother. But he chose different. He chose that it was more worth fighting than going back and giving up. This, though angered Miller, he admired it as he says in his last breath,”James..Earn this. Earn it.” It shows that at times soldiers are thrown in situations where they have to choose between following orders and self preservation and in most cases the soldiers chose the latter. They believe that it would worth it, risking their life and that to me, is beautiful and priceless.