Last appearance of Joshua D. Maurer as Private Roger Horn. Although he would become a producer and president of a production company, he had only two other acting credits following Tour of Duty, the last one being another military role playing Colonel James C. Rice, a real life Union Army brigade commander in Gettysburg (1993).
You don't salute a superior in the open in the field or at a forward base because it gives the enemy a potentially high value target to shoot at.
Opening blurb:
"How can we justify sending our boys against a hill a dozen times or more until soldiers themselves question the madness of the action?"
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy May 1969
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy May 1969