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  1. perimeter
    a line enclosing a plane area
    EXT. COMPANY PERIMETER #1 - DUSK

    The COMPANY - about 100 men who seem insignificant amid the size
    of the surrounding jungle - is digging into a perimeter of some
    100-yard radius.
  2. gook
    any thick, viscous matter
    And as he does so, the camera from his POV comes around on a dead
    decomposing 10-day-old GOOK - eyes starting from its sockets,
    worms and flies feasting.
  3. medivac
    the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care
    Rodriguez, wounded, is lifted up in his litter and moved out to
    the waiting MEDIVAC CHOPPER, a huge red cross painted on a white
    square.
  4. hutch
    a cage for small animals
    INT. UNDERWORLD HUTCH - NIGHT

    King leads Chris down to a specially constructed cellar-like
    hutch dug deep into the ground on an isolated edge of the
    battalion perimeter.
  5. hooch
    an illicitly distilled alcoholic liquor
    As Chris finishes his
    hit on the pipe, looks up across the smoke, already dazed,
    surprised to see ELIAS suddenly there - leaning out of his sling
    in a far corner of the hooch.
  6. krait
    brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula
    A bright yellow and orange-ringed krait viper is crawling right
    between his two legs.
  7. ambush
    the act of hiding and waiting to make a surprise attack
    All
    platoons will set squad-size ambushes before full
    dark.
  8. C-ration
    a canned field ration issued by the United States Army
    EXT. BASE CAMP - DAY (WEEK LATER)

    Chris is driven up in a jeep to his Company PC - marked 'Bravo
    PC' on a C-ration box.
  9. trip wire
    a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over
    Distances, treelines, our
    claymores, trip wires, everything?
  10. demarcate
    set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something
    INT. NVA TUNNEL - DAY

    Elias climbs deeper and deeper into the hole, a rope attached to
    his waist leading out to the surface, his flashlight now coming
    around on a shaftway demarcating a TUNNEL that seems to stretch
    for at least 100 yards.
  11. glory hole
    a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
    HAROLD
    Shit, lookit this little fucker trying to get up ma
    glory hole.
  12. claymore mine
    an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy
    Chris and Tex setting out their claymore mines, raveling back
    their detonating cords to their position, drenched.
  13. zippo
    a quantity of no importance
    EXT. SMALL VILLAGE - DAY

    A zippo cigarette lighter with the engraved initials: 'From Mai
    lin to my Bunny Boy'.
  14. niner
    the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
    Grid six-four-niner ... four-zero-two.
  15. body bag
    a bag in which the body of a dead soldier is placed
    As they move out, Chris' eyes moving with the body bags being
    loaded onto the plane.
Created on Fri Mar 05 14:34:33 EST 2010

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