careful. Use a deep voice
or they'll know you're a kid.
Let me hear you talk.
This is Bluebird...
No, it's got to be deeper. Put some
bass in your voice, like Slappy.
Do it again.
This is the Bluebird.
I be ready to refuel.
Doug, move that control tower
about 10 degrees to the north.
No, that's the oil refinery.
That's the detention center
where he's being held.
That's what's left of my lunch.
Get that out of there.
You must be in love!
The control tower is over here.
Cheese!
All right, gentlemen
and ladies.
Time for the final check for tomorrow's
operation. I hope you're ready.
Status on the Falcons.
Two F-16Bs standing by
on the northern runway as requsted.
Fuel?
Fully fueled.
Interior and exterior tanks.
- Armaments?
- As requested and visually verified.
Thank you.
- Flight plans cleared?
- Both fully authorized.
Refuel?
I have a list of times and coordinates,
all verified.
Place of detention?
As of 1500 hours, Col. Masters
is still being held at the same location.
No change in enemy plans reported.
I congratulate you all
on some fine work.
You've come a long way
in a short while.
I don't judge people
by their experience...
...but by their performance.
Yours has been exemplary.
I'd like to shake your hands.
I've never had a finer planning staff.
You go home to Mom and tell her
I'm out with Reggie and Tony.
After tomorrow,
you're in charge.
But only for a couple of days.
It's a promise!
Without you guys,
there's no way...
We know that!
Eagles.
Show me the armaments availability list.
I've come up with an idea that'll
give us some added insurance.
I'm too loaded down...
...so you have to carry it.
Carry what?
The Hades bomb.
How fast can Milo work?
He can rearm in 3 hours.
What do I do with the Hades?
Before you land...
...I want you to lay one in right here.
It's got its good points
and its bad points.
The good point is they won't be able
to see or touch you for 5 minutes.
But you won't see them either.
Now listen to me.
Look!
Once this fire goes out,
if you're not in the air...
...you are a dead man.
Now I want you to
get your butt in my trailer.
Get some sleep. I've got some
work to do and I need my privacy.
I've got to see my Mom
and I have to call Katie.
What are you going to tell them?
- I don't know...
- I don't know either!
You can't tell them the truth!
I'll tell you what. I'll have
Slappy talk to both of them...
...after we have gone.
Okay?
Now you get in my trailer. Now.
I said, get your butt in my
trailer...
...now!
Yes, sir.
Yes, Mlnlster,
we are standlng by.
Give the American his final meal.
After tomorrow, he will not have
much of an appetite.
I told you to get some sleep.
I'm just relaxing a bit.
Watching a little TV.
I don't need much sleep for this.
How do you know
what you need for this?
I just meant I'm ready.
You're ready, aren't you?
You think it's going to be so easy,
don't you?
I don't think it will all be easy.
I'm just ready for it.
You ain't ready for shit, boy!
Open it!
Go ahead, open it!
Who are these guys?
Kids that thought they
were ready too.
- Pilots?
- All of them.
They look about 22 or 23.
That's right.
I don't see why you're so worried.
How are they
different from me?
Because they're dead!
All of them.
I lay awake at night...
...thinking about how fast
and how brutal they died.
Parts of them falling on the land,
parts of them falling in the sea.
Some parts of them burning
just into nothing in the air.
All of them...
...thought they were ready for it.
When it was all over...
...I promised myself I'd never
be part of killing kids again.
That's why it took so long
to come around to helping you.
I've got us both trapped...
...into something...
- That could kill us?
I know that, Chappy.
And those kids?
I don't know what you think anymore,
but they knew it too.
Maybe they weren't ready for it,
but who the hell is ever ready?
You