Sergeant Elias

Sergeant Elias is the deuteragonist of the Oscar-winning 1986 war film, Platoon. He is a benevolent and sympathethic military sergeant with an idealistic and pacifistic view of the Vietnamese civilians, contrasting him to that of the film's main antagonist, Sergeant Bob Barnes.

He is introduced in the film as an American military sergeant who quickly becomes a mentor to the film's protagonist, Chris Taylor. One night, he, Taylor, Barnes and the rest of the platoon are sent out