Maj. Asa Barker
Cpl. Courcey
Capt. Alfred Olivetti
Lt. Raymond Hamilton
Lt. Finley Wattsberg
Cowboy
Cpl. Ackley
Signalman Toffer
Gen. Harnitz
Col. Minh
The Old Man
Cpl. Abraham Lincoln
Butterfly
One-eyed man
Sgt. Oleonowski
Capt. Schlitz
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement finds similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before.