Specialist Eldridge confronts his military psychiatrist about the moral and survival-based dilemmas of combat. He questions the rules of engagement and challenges the doctor's lack of field experience while struggling with the psychological toll of his role in an EOD unit.
ELDRIDGE: What if I should be pulling the trigger more often? Killing people? Bomb makers.
LT. COL. CAMBRIDGE: That’s not your mission. Your mission is to protect life. Render safe.
ELDRIDGE: But what if I need to change the mission - to survive? That bicyclist I told you about? I’m ninety percent s
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