plug is pulled for charles mcmahon. that's when keane realized he could not directly disobey an order from the ambassador, but he and valdez were going to have to manage this evacuation. with the marines they had on hand. so if i could, let me veer off here and i'll just tell you a little about these marines. once again, they don't take orders, they're not in the marine corps chain of command. they take orders from civilians. and aside from tom valdez who had served as an amtrak platoon leader during the war in vietnam, jim keane who had been an artillery man in the war in vietnam and a staff sergeant named mike sullivan had served in the long-range patrols would call in artillery to hill, and those were the only three men who had any experience with war. the rest of these guys were kids. and i, obviously, can't go through all of them. but, i mean, just some of them. big john, big, bad john from boston, big blond john. maybe the strongest man in the outfit. he, when he heard charles mcmahon four days before he got kille