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The platoon has finally caught a break. Or so they think. They are loaded up on trucks and sent down country to a small village. Their mission is to provide security to irrigation workers, who are working at the village in order to improve the quality of life there. Instead of planting one crop a year, the villagers will now be able to plant three. That's more food for Charlie, Sgt. Anderson bitterly tells the men. Upon arrival, the platoon is greeted by sheer chaos. The platoon they are reliving are delighted to see them, and look wore out. The Lieutenant has just been killed that morning while out on one of the many daily patrols. Every time they go out into the jungle they are ambushed, a soldier informs Goldman. It's as if Charlie knows where and when they are going to be. Suspicions immediately fall on the scout and former-Viet Cong soldier who helps with the patrols. But, as Private Horn is to discover, the real culprit is an apparent neutral body overlooking the hamlet. "Sitting Ducks" is a brilliant episode with a lot going on. We see the activities of the Buddhist monks during the war and also the plight of a young Vietnamese woman with a half-black baby, who is victimised by her people because her baby's father was an American soldier. 5/5