A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
Graham Kennedy
as Harry
John Hargreaves
as Bung
John Jarratt
as Bill
Bryan Brown
as Rogers
Graeme Blundell
as Dawson
Richard Moir
as Medic
Peter Drouyn
as Sergeant Johnson
Ian Gilmour
as Scott
Graham Rouse
as The Cook
Tony Barry
as Black Ronnie
John Allen
as Lieut. Golonka
Brandon Burke
as Isaacs
