This, together with the fact that Miller has no professional experience or aptitude for jungle operations, sparks friction between the two. On the mission, Beckett insists on deviating from the plan that Miller was given. With his Heckler & Koch SR9TC rifle fixed on the attacker, Miller is decidedly unable to shoot him instead, the helicopter's fatally-wounded door-gunner makes the kill, but the aircraft's surviving aviator believes Miller made the crucial shot, earning Miller a false reputation. Several of the helicopter's crew and passengers are killed. While proceeding to the staging area, Miller's UH-1 helicopter is fired upon by a guerrilla armed with an AK-47 Rifle. Miller is also ordered by his superiors to kill Beckett if Beckett either threatens or compromises the covert operation to eliminate both Alvarez and Ochoa. Miller is an Olympic medalist and SWAT team sharpshooter, but he has no combat experience, no jungle operations experience, and no confirmed kills to his name. Later, Beckett is paired with an inexperienced civilian, Richard Miller (Zane), to eliminate rebel General Miguel Alvarez funded by the Colombian drug lord, Raoul Ochoa. Beckett runs back under fire to carry Papich's remains to the helicopter. Because they are erroneously extracted in daylight instead of at night, Papich is killed by a sniper (armed with an SVD Dragunov).
Upon successful completion of their mission, Beckett and Papich covertly withdraw from the area to await extraction. Papich ( Aden Young), are on a mission to assassinate a Panamanian rebel leader in the jungle. "Best damned steelhead fishing in the whole world".Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger), Force Reconnaissance Marine, an experienced sniper, and his spotter, Cpl. It is still for the most part untouched other than a couple small Post Office towns, small little mountain homes, then the mega cattle ranches and hay fields. The Crow Indians told the settlers there not to build there because it was the worst weather in the entire area.īut really I am glad they built there and not in Paradise Valley. Lastly, there are no steelhead from any Montana river that empties into the Atlantic, which the Yellowstone does.Īnd you are very right about the wind. I-90, the Yellowstone and Livingston all meet in one place and the High School is about 1 mile away from that point, also located on the flood plain, and it was built in 1965 and had already been there for 28 years from the movie's timeframe.
Whoever wrote the script was way off in describing the landscape around Livingston.Ī sniper would know distance very well, 3 km East from I-90 in that area is all flood plains of THE YELLOWSTONE, and within the city limits, with no large tributary streams, to the Yellowstone much less the Madison. It always makes me laugh because he has no idea what he is talking about. lots of wind.īozeman is nicer, closer to the Madison and no wind. Livingston would be closest to the Yellowstone River. Why would he choose Livingston to fish the Madison?Įnnis maybe. Does he still want to retire to Livingston, MT so he can live on the Madison and fish for Steelhead?
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