Command Decision Page #3

Hello, Jack. Brockhurst.

I'm talking from a seat

right on the 50-yard line...

...but the game hasn't started yet.

Better get ready for the same

run around as yesterday.

Sure, I'll try.

Okay, I'll call you.

Are you the new commanding general?

No, just a poor reporter

trying to do his job.

Poor reporter is right.

I thought Dennis told you to keep out.

He did.

You guys always get what you want

from Kane, don't you?

Public relations office is down the hall.

The general doesn't wanna see you.

I don't blame you

for feeling jumpy, sergeant.

Quite a deal, isn't it?

Your boss gets put in top charge

for one day...

...and loses more planes

than General Kane ever lost in a week.

Maybe he just doesn't like airplanes.

Maybe he doesn't like their crews either.

Tell me...

...why has Dennis got

a flight commander with 21 missions...

...confined to quarters at the 32nd?

Probably for not brushing his teeth.

Well, that disposes of the item

of Captain Jenks.

Does that finish your business?

I did want to say goodbye

to General Dennis before he left.

Goodbye? Who's leaving?

Well, trouble with the press...

...war hero under arrest,

record losses just one time too many...

I just have the feeling

he might be going home.

They never fired no general

till they give him the Legion of Merit.

They can pass it out mighty quick.

Gonna miss your hero?

No brass is a hero to me.

I've done my 25.

Captain Jenks to see General Dennis.

Captain Jenks reporting, sir.

Have him come in.

Yes, sir. Okay, captain.

Want me with you, sir?

No, I'll talk to the captain alone.

Come in, Jenks.

Sit down.

- Cigarette?

- No, thanks.

I've got a pretty nasty report

on you here.

I understand when the target

was announced...

...you slammed out of the group's briefing,

said you wouldn't fly.

- What's your version of it?

- It's true, as far as it goes.

Captain Jenks, it's an old custom

in the service to call your superiors sir.

All right, we'll skip the manners

for the moment.

- Do you realize this is serious?

- I won't get killed to make you a record.

Maybe you've had too much.

I guess a few days

down at Bournemouth wouldn't hurt.

If you look in the bottom of the file, you'll

see I finished 10 days in a rest home, sir.

Tell me...

...your uncle's on

the Military Affairs Committee, isn't he?

Would that have anything to do

with your behavior?

Sure it has.

It's lucky I've got somebody

to look out for me.

How would you like to have

your squadron hear you say that?

- They feel the same way.

- They went this morning.

Don't give me that, general.

My squadron knows that I can take it

as well as anybody, if I want to.

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