SIR!  NO SIR! -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

LOUISE MONACO, BILLY DEAN SMITH DEFENSE TEAM: The irony of why he got selected for prosecution, you could almost say a comedy of errors ...

his commanding officer decided that he must have been the target because he was planning to send Billy home.

Now, to us, that was absolutely absurd.

If Billy thought he was being sent home ...

he would have swam home.

None of the original evidence pointed to Billy at all.

Eyewitness descriptions did not match Billy. And as it turned out later, he was off some place getting high. The case was really a milestone in many ways because it was the case that surfaced the issue of fragging.

[... and then my men refused to go

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