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* NiceGuy: Charming, brave, sweet-natured and selfless, Barnes is perhaps the nicest guy in the entire platoon.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While ranting about Elias to Wolfe, he does make a valid point that the war is being handicapped by leaders totally disconnected from the realities on the ground and that men are dying needlessly because of it.
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* SergeantRock: An interesting villainous example.
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As a platoon leader, Wolfe is by definition not "Armchair Military".


* ArmchairMilitary: Tries to be this and mostly succeeds being an officer, located in the rear and away from potential damage (and leaving the real orders in combat situations to his senior soldiers) except in the village scene when it's innocents. Viciously averted in the finale when the company is encircled by the VC and he is effectively demoted to a grunt in the circumstance. [[spoiler: He fails, is blinded by shrapnel, and shot dead.]]

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