Kaffee:
Lt. Kendrick, was Lance Corporal Dawson given a below average rating on this last report because you learned he had been sneaking food to Private Bell?
Capt. Ross:
Object!
Judge Randolph:
Not so fast. Lieutenant?
Lt. Kendrick:
Lance Corporal Dawson was given a below average rating because he had committed a crime.
Kaffee:
A crime? What crime did he commit? Lieutenant Kendrick, Dawson brought a hungry guy some food. What crime did he commit?
Lt. Kendrick:
He disobeyed an order.
Kaffee:
And because he did, because he exercised his own set of values, because he made a decision about the welfare of a Marine that was in conflict with an order of yours, he was punished. Is that right?
Lt. Kendrick:
Lance Corporal Dawson disobeyed an order!
Kaffee:
Yeah, but it wasn't a real order, was it? After all, it's peace time. He wasn't being asked to secure a hill or advance on a beachhead. I mean, surely a Marine of Dawson's intelligence can be trusted to determine on his own which are the really important orders and which orders might, say, be morally questionable? Lieutenant Kendrick, can he? Can Dawson determine on his own which orders he's going to follow?
Lt. Kendrick:
No, he cannot.
Kaffee:
A lesson he learned after the Curtis Bell incident, am I right?
Lt. Kendrick:
I would think so.
Kaffee:
You know so, don't you, Lieutenant?
Capt. Ross:
Object.
Judge Randolph:
Sustained.
Kaffee:
Lieutenant Kendrick, one final question. If you had ordered Dawson to give Santiago a code red...
Lt. Kendrick:
I specifically ordered those men not to touch Santiago!
Kaffee:
Is it reasonable to think he would've disobeyed you again?
Capt. Ross:
Lieutenant, don't answer that!
Kaffee:
You don't have to. I'm through.
Capt. Ross:
Lieutenant Kendrick, did you order Lance Corporal Dawson and Private Downey to give Willie Santiago a code red?
[Kendrick initially refuses to answer, sensing he's been caught lying]

Capt. Ross:
Lieutenant Kendrick, did you...
Lt. Kendrick:
No, I did not.
Capt. Ross:
Thank you.

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Codice d'onore (1992)

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