I remember when this movie came out. It was 10 years after I had been flying into and out of the areas in which the movie took place. III and IV Corps in South Vietnam, and what was called the Parrot's Beak, where Cambodia and Vietnam share a common border.
The mentality of the war, of the troops and how they dealt with what they had to endure each and every day, in some of the most God forsaken places is what attracted me to the movie.
With out judging on warfare, this movie is the best movie I've seen about the Vietnam war.