Friendly Fire (1979) on Netflix
An Army officer tells Peg and Gene Mullen that their son Michael was killed in Vietnam by what he calls friendly fire. The Iowa couple want to know how it happened.
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Plot summary
Michael Mullen finishes college, is drafted in September 1968 and sent to South Vietnam, where he serves with the 198th Infantry Brigade of the 23rd Infantry Division, the Americal Division. In March 1970 a U.S. Army officer arrives at the Iowa farm of Michael's parents, Peg and Gene Mullen, and tells them their son was killed in Vietnam by friendly fire. Gene, a World War II veteran, and Peg try to learn the circumstances of Michael's death. The Army listed Michael as a non-battle casualty, and the government did not publish the names or the number of non-battle deaths on its weekly casualty lists.
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Friendly Fire dramatizes the real-life story of Peg and Gene Mullen, an Iowa couple who fought government obstacles to uncover how their son Michael, an Army infantry soldier, was killed by friendly fire in Vietnam in February 1970.SPOILER
Sergeant Mullen was drafted in September 1968 after college, sent to South Vietnam in September 1969 with the 198th Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division, and was listed as a non-battle casualty after being killed by an exploding Army artillery shell fragment while asleep; the government did not publicly report non-battle deaths or their names on weekly casualty lists.
