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* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Tragically inverted.

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: Sgt. Elias Grodin, faster, stronger and more experienced than his student Chris.

* [[Opposing Combat Philosophies]]: Elias (laid-back) and Barnes (aggressive). Stone based them on two different sergeants he knew while he was in Vietnam. They never met but Stone wondered what would happen if two men of such opposing viewpoints were in the same platoon.

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* [[Opposed Mentors]]: [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] Chris is torn between two Sergeants about how he should conduct himself in Vietnam. As his closing monologue goes''" The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called "possession of my soul"''.

* [[Old Soldier]]: Most of the members of the platoon when Chris arrives, and eventually Chris becomes one himself.

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* [[Opposed Mentors]]: [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] Chris is torn between two Sergeants about how he should conduct himself in Vietnam. As his closing monologue goes''" The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called "possession of my soul"''.

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* [[Opposing Combat Philosophies]]: Elias (laid-back) and Barnes (aggressive). Stone based them on two different sergeants he knew while he was in Vietnam. They never met but Stone wondered what would happen if two men of such opposing viewpoints were in the same platoon.

* [[Retirony]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|After announcing that he's going home in a chopper in ten minutes with the final battle approaching, King (Keith David) actually does make it out alive.}}

* [[Screw the War, We're Partying]]: Subverted with Elias, a stoner with a relativist attitude to war who is still a badass and a more effective commander than Barnes.