Spoilers* I just found out this was a true story, I was reading an historical non-fiction Vietnam war book called "Bloods": Black soldiers in the war. And in the Haywood T Kirkland account, he goes on to talk about being a grunt, his "white" squad member cutting off a VC head, and keeping in around, until the CO threatens a court martial. But he still kept all his VC ears. After the war Kirkland works for the Postal service where he sees they ship old money to burn, he quits, sets up the heist, albeit it goes smoothly they hide around the truck stop early morning, they tie up the guards, and make off with $320,000. They hand out turkeys for kids around Christmas, but their one buddy goes around handing out money, and gets caught, gives them all up. Kirkland does 6yrs but gets out early because the judge made a mistake under prosecution.