Reminiscent of the scene in one of the later episodes of Band of Brothers: In the last weeks of the European war, Major Dick Winters is ordered to send a patrol to cross the Rhine, in rubber boats, during the night — for the second night in a row. The patrol's quite-dangerous mission would be a repeat of what the same soldiers had done the previous night: to capture German prisoners and bring them back for interrogation. Winters concludes that the repeat mission would be a pointless risk of his men's lives. So he disobeys his orders: he tells his people to get a good night's sleep and report to him in the morning that they did the repeat mission but were unable to find any additional German soldiers to capture. Winters's soldiers were visibly relieved.