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United 93 · 2006 — 第 11 / 17 章 · 2'51" · B2

Officers Demand Shoot-Down Authority, Explained：make the call

Two planes have already hit the World Trade Center, and the men in the command room want to know what they're allowed to do next. They keep asking for rules of engagement while the answer stays the same: "Shoot-down authority comes from the President and the President only." Nobody below the top can make the call.

あらすじ

The command room is watching a disaster it can't yet stop. After two planes hit the World Trade Center, an officer repeatedly asks for rules of engagement: should they shoot down a hijacked flight, and who has the authority to order it? The answer from above is that only the President can make that call. Later in the chapter, the tone shifts to a conversation about rugby and golf.

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beat the bushesrules of engagementmake the callshoot-down authority

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このシーンの表現

make the call

make the final decision

On whether to shoot down a plane, the officer admits only the President can decide.

You know the client best, so you make the call.

このシーンの他の表現

  • beat the bushes

    search everywhere

  • rules of engagement

    military limits on using force

  • shoot-down authority

    permission to shoot a plane down

  • goddamn

    a swear word for emphasis

  • up for

    willing or in the mood for

このシーンのメモ一覧

55 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · A2just left somewhere

left only a moment ago

But we just left Newark. The weather was beautiful.
表現 · A2gotta be something

must be

That's gotta be student pilots.
発音What's he

What's he can blur into wot-see in fast speech.

Come on, guys. Beat the bushes. Where is this guy? What's he doing?
表現 · B1need to know something

must find out

I need to know the ROE, sir.
発音need to

Need to often blurs into nee-ta, with the t nearly dropped.

I need to know the ROE, sir.
表現 · B2shoot something down

destroy by shooting

Do we shoot this flight down?
表現 · B1how high up do we go

how far up the chain

How high up do we have to go? SecDef?
文法 · A2has to

have to for obligation: Has to marks an obligation that cannot be avoided here.

The President has to make the call. Yes, sir.
表現 · A2let someone know

tell someone

We'll let you know when Langley's airborne.
発音let you

Let you links into let-cha, so it can sound like one word.

We'll let you know when Langley's airborne.
スラング · B1the hell

used for emphasis — Adds force in casual speech; too rough for formal settings.

Where the hell is the liaison?
表現 · B2work someone

press someone

You gotta work the military on this one.
スラング · A2gotta

have got to — Everyday shorthand; avoid it in formal writing.

You gotta work the military on this one.
表現 · B2lines of communication

channels for contact

I need you to do everything you can to get these lines of communication open.
文法 · B1everything you can

relative clause: You can is a relative clause modifying everything, with that left out.

I need you to do everything you can to get these lines of communication open.
スラング · B2goddamn

damn — A harsh swear; only in anger, never in polite talk.

We got at least two planes into that goddamn building.
文法 · B1it's not your job to do this

dummy subject it: It is a dummy subject; the real subject is the to-infinitive that follows.

Listen, I know it's not your job to do this, but you've gotta do what you can.
表現 · B2the gravity of something

how serious something is

They understand the gravity of the situation. I'll give you the best update I can...
表現 · B1hardly any something

almost none

And long, long quarters with hardly any breaks.
表現 · B2take out something on someone

release feelings

You take out all your aggression and all your, you know, all your shit for the day.
表現 · B1in some way

somehow

When I left school, I knew I just had to continue rugby in some way.
表現 · B1kind of like something

a bit like

It's kind of like a city league. It's kind of my outlet.

「Officers Demand Shoot-Down Authority」を読み解く

What's really going on

The real subject is authority: who gets to decide, and how slow that decision is. The officer's line "I need to know the ROE, sir" isn't confusion; it's a demand for permission, because nobody in the room wants to be the one who orders a civilian airliner shot down without it. The system answers with procedure instead of a decision — "Shoot-down authority comes from the President and the President only" — which is both legally correct and painfully slow on a morning when events are outrunning it. Underneath the jargon, ordinary people are being asked to act on a scale they've never trained for, and the scene keeps cutting to small human moments, like a chat about rugby and golf, to show how far away normal life suddenly is.

Theme

DutyThe officers keep pressing for orders even as the chain of command slows them down, because acting on the day is their job.
PowerThe whole scene is about who holds the authority to shoot down a plane, and how far up the decision has to travel.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A shoot-down needs a named authority, not a mood.
  • Repeating a name twice ends the argument.
  • Pressure travels up the chain, not down.
  • The golf talk hides how much the man has lost.

発音のポイント

  • What's he — What's he can blur into wot-see in fast speech.
  • need to — Need to often blurs into nee-ta, with the t nearly dropped.
  • let you — Let you links into let-cha, so it can sound like one word.
Shoot-down authority comes from the President and the President only.

The legal answer to a desperate question: only the President can authorize shooting down a hijacked airliner, so the military cannot act on its own.

I need you to do everything you can to get these lines of communication open.

The priority shifts from weapons to phones: before anything can be approved or coordinated, the command posts have to be able to talk to each other.

We gotta get jets on every one of those aircraft on that board.

With no shoot-down order yet, the fallback is presence: put fighters next to every suspicious radar target so they can at least be tracked and identified.

Listen, I know it's not your job to do this, but you've gotta do what you can.

A blunt appeal across chains of command: the request is outside the other person's duties, but on this morning normal procedure is not enough.

I think golf is pretty much all I'm up for now.

A quiet, ordinary line: after the day's stress, the speaker says the most he can manage is a round of golf.

When I left school, I knew I just had to continue rugby in some way.

A personal aside about keeping up sport after school, showing how completely separate this everyday conversation is from the crisis unfolding elsewhere.

このシーンについての質問

Why can't the military just shoot down the hijacked plane?

Because shoot-down authority rests with the President alone. The officers can prepare and position fighters, but until a presidential order comes through, they have no legal cover to fire, and they say so repeatedly.

What does ROE mean here?

ROE stands for rules of engagement, the military guidelines for when troops may use force. The officer is asking for concrete permission: whether and when he is allowed to fire on the airliner.

Why does the officer keep repeating himself about rules of engagement?

He is stuck between an unfolding attack and an approval process that moves slowly. Repeating the request is his way of pushing for a decision instead of letting the moment pass without one.

Who actually has to make the call to shoot down a plane?

The President. The film makes the chain explicit: the request goes up through commanders and liaison officers, and the word comes back that only the President can authorize a shoot-down.

What is the golf and rugby talk doing in this scene?

It's a deliberate contrast. After the command-room panic, the film cuts to an easy conversation about sports and hobbies, underlining how ordinary that same morning still is for people far from the crisis.

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