The next day, Camparelli grounds Jake and Cole while the rest of the carrier's A-6 and A-7 crews conduct a daylight raid to destroy anti-aircraft emplacements: the tangible, lucrative targets they've longed to attack. Nixon, and the unauthorized mission is covered up. The charges are dropped the next day when Operation Linebacker II is ordered by President Richard M. During the preliminary hearing, Cole and Grafton are criticized for their actions, and informed that their naval careers are essentially over. Upon returning to the carrier, Camparelli angrily chastises the pair for their independent mission and informs them of their impending court martial at the U.S. The two come back around, rerun the route, successfully drop their bombs and manage to obliterate the missile depot in a spectacular display of secondary explosions. Arriving at SAM City, on their first pass, their armament computer malfunctions and they are forced to bomb 'by hand' (guesswork), and after barely surviving a barrage of enemy fire, their bombs fail to release. Sent to bomb a power plant in the vicinity of Hanoi, they drop two of their Mark 83 bombs, keeping eight for the missile depot and set a new course for Hanoi for their independent bombing mission. He warns Jake and Cole that there's no chance of succeeding in their mission, but he is soundly ignored. To secure their mission, they coercively enlist the aid of the Squadron Intelligence Officer, who has been caught urinating in the commander's coffee decanter, being the Phantom Shitter who's secretly repeated this deed throughout the first half of the movie. Cole then agrees with Jake's plan to attack Hanoi, deciding to hit "SAM City," a surface-to-air missile depot.
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The North Vietnamese in Hanoi gloat on TV over the downing of U.S. On the next raid, Boxman hits the suspected target, but is shot down by another SAM and killed. Jake suggests to Cole that they bomb Hanoi, which would be a violation of the restrictive rules of engagement (ROE) and could get them court-martialed. During the mission, after a successful strike, they encounter and manage to evade a North Vietnamese MiG-17. Cole and Jake are paired on "Iron Hand" A-6Bs loaded with Standard and Shrike anti-radiation missiles for SAM suppression. Jake returns to the carrier, where Camparelli confronts him regarding the bar incident, and Cole reports in Jake's favor. After they reconcile, dance and spend the night together, she reveals her husband was a Navy pilot himself and was killed on a solo mission over Vietnam. After an altercation with civilian merchant sailors in the Tailhook Bar, Jake runs into Callie again. He runs into a woman named Callie Troy (Rosanna Arquette), who is packing Sharon's things, and they have a small, tense encounter. Jake goes to see Sharon, but she has already departed. Lieutenant Commander Virgil Cole (Willem Dafoe) arrives on board and reports to Camparelli, who later tells Jake's roommate Sammy Lundeen (Justin Williams) to take Jake, Bob "Boxman" Walkawitz (Tom Sizemore) and "Mad Jack" (Dann Florek) to fly into Subic Bay the next day and help Jake unwind. New pilot Jack Barlow (Jared Chandler), nicknamed "Razor" because of his youthful appearance, is then introduced. Camparelli tells Jake to put Morgan's death behind him and to write a letter to Sharon, Morg's wife. Landing on the USS Independence with Morg dead, a disturbed Jake, covered in blood, walks into a debriefing with Commander Frank Camparelli (Danny Glover) and Executive Officer, Commander "Cowboy" Parker (J.
On the return to carrier, Morg is fatally shot in the neck by an armed Vietnamese peasant. They hit their target, a 'suspected truck park', which actually turns out to be trees. Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton (Brad Johnson) and his bombardier/navigator and best friend Lieutenant Morgan "Morg" McPherson (Christopher Rich) are flying a Grumman A-6 Intruder during the Vietnam War over the Gulf of Tonkin towards North Vietnam. The film received negative reviews upon release, and as of 2022 is Milius's final theatrical release as a director. It is based on the novel of the same name by former Grumman A-6 Intruder pilot Stephen Coonts. Flight of the Intruder is a 1991 war film directed by John Milius, and starring Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, and Brad Johnson.
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