Another one of the platoon kills him.
Platoon movie plot. Chris Taylor Charlie Sheen is a college student who quits school to volunteer for the Army in the late 60s. Wolfe who is nominally in charge pretends not. When Junior runs out of the hole and Bunny turns around to yell at him Bunny is suddenly holding an M-16 rifle.
While his platoon pillages a small village Chris rescues a young village girl from being raped by some of the men in his platoon. Upon arrival he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Mostly due to the fact he has neither fought as long as the rest of them nor felt the horrors of war.
There is a heavy emotional destruction that goes on as they are not only killing the other young men of the enemy but their children and families as well. Movie Info Chris Taylor Charlie Sheen leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967. He gives them instructions and goes on his own to another position.
As the platoon leaves the area Taylor Sheen spots Elias running from the VC. One night as the groups are sent to as a night ambush control one of the men that. After Wolfe calls in the wrong coordinates resulting in an American artillery strike on the platoons position Elias takes Taylor and two other men on a mission to intercept flanking enemy troops.
On the next patrol the platoon is caught in an ambush. From the looks of it as he enters the platoon there are two main groups. Hes about to kill the village chiefs daughter before Elias stops him and attacks him.
The platoon enters a nearby village discovers a cache of weapons and wreaks havoc. Storyline Chris Taylor is a young naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. During one patrol on New Years Day January 1 1968 the platoon finds what appears to be an abandoned bunker.