:01:13
The French tried to build a canal here
before the Americans.
:01:16
At the height of their effort,
500 workers...
:01:19
... were dying every week
from malaria and yellow fever.
:01:23
They couldn't come up with
cemetery space fast enough...
:01:26
...not to mention the morale problem
all those crosses would have made.
:01:30
So they bought shiploads
of vinegar in Cuba...
:01:34
...and in each barrel,
they sealed one corpse.
:01:37
And then they sold them
as medical cadavers all over Europe.
:01:41
And for a while, that was
their principal source of profit.
:01:45
You see, this place has always had
a special way of dealing...
:01:50
... with both profit and death.
:02:12
As some of you may have heard,
there is a hurricane warning tonight.
:02:18
Well, Rangers do not wait
on good weather.
:02:22
Rangers do not wait
for a bright, sunshiny day.
:02:27
Oh, no. Rangers are trained to operate
in the worst possible conditions...
:02:33
...and take said conditions
and turn them against their enemy.
:02:37
You each have one rifle, one sidearm
and one white phosphorus grenade.
:02:43
This is a live E and E, so please
keep those weapons safetied...
:02:48
...so as not to shoot off
your nonexistent dicks.
:02:54
The rally point is a bunker
two clicks north of the LZ.
:02:59
You will split into teams of two.