jim keane knows his two men are dead now, his two kids. and he says i don't want you to report this to the marine corps chain of command. major keane says, what do you mean? if they find out these guys are dead, they're going to pull the plug on me. and keane is thinking, pull the plug on you? the plug is already pulled. plug is pulled for darwin judge. 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, a