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Some military movies got overlooked in the recognition department. I liked "The Siege of Firebase Gloria"-just because R. Lee Ermey rocked it with his one-liners! What other less-known tasty military nuggets are out there, possibly undiscovered?
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SFC Mark Merino, you ask good questions... I don't know how to answer this one without repeating myself... (Southern Comfort, The Beast, Kelly's Heroes...) hmmmmmmmm...
'Cross of Iron' or 'Castel Keep'
'Cross of Iron' or 'Castel Keep'
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SSG Pete Fleming
SSG Maurice Pownall, that was a weird one, the bikers with eye liner and the 'other' soldiers
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SSG Pete Fleming
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
Directed by William Peter Blatty. With Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders. A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S. Army soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combating his own long-suppressed insanity.
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The Boys of Company C, directed by Sidney J. Furie, was a 1978 film about United States Marines in the Vietnam War. It was among the first Vietnam War films ...
"The Boys of Company C" is one I would say is over looked and under-rated. I saw this movie the evening before I left to MCRD San Diego.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTmqlvnHGEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTmqlvnHGEY
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Cpl Dennis F.
SSG Maurice P. What is with the incessant "hehehehehe"? It is usually out of place. It really gives me the creeps.
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SSG Maurice P.
since im not a computer geek and use lol i say heheheheheboth mean someone is laughing
right...i didnt know that grown men got the creeps especially u.s marines...
right...i didnt know that grown men got the creeps especially u.s marines...
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SSG Maurice P.
say hehehehe could you come to my place of work and tell the friendly lifers that you got the creeps i will get you the tour...right now is a great time to visit every sunday in october is the angola rodeo...politically correct right right now im an old man i dont put any stock in that shit hehehehehehe you have a creepy night hear
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In the Army Now....wait no that was not it.....Casualties of War. Very sad, but good movie.
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I just read that and almost saw "Army of Darkness". I think I might need to get some sleep.
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SFC Mark Merino
CSM (Join to see) When Luke Skywalker still had a shot to branch out as an actor. Corvette Summer, and Jay and Silent Bob is all I know about his acting career sans The Force.
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MSgt Chris Adams
Skywalker has done lots of voice acting. Pretty sure he is the voice of Joker and some others
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Yall Knew this was Comin , Black Hawk Down . That movie litterly made me want to join the Army , Then Jar Head , and i cant forget Full Metal Jacket . Military movies i am proud of .
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SFC Mark Merino
SGT (Join to see) All great movies but definitely not underrated. What is one of those military flicks that you know of that most people didn't even know existed?
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SSG Maurice P.
i was in my 12th year as a marine when full metal jacket got to us on okinawa the first time i saw it i went thru alot of changes there in my living room in base housing i had went to boot camp back in that time period and that shit was real hehehehehehehehehe
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I seem to remember "The boys of Company C" being very accurate if not a very shoot em up. Most portrayals of Vietnam just really pissed me off. Although, at one time or another during that conflict, I believe everything that could happen, DID happen. They did not happen in one day, or every day!
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SFC Mark Merino
Cpl Dennis F. When the boys OBVIOUSLY threw the soccer game to the ARVN to appease the PR officer. I was almost wetting myself!
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Boys in Company C. Check your package Washington checking his package the boys are checking there's I'm checking mine and you you square fence are you checking yours or do you have one.
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SFC Mark Merino
I can’t find that movie online for free anywhere. None of the streaming services. I’m going to have to buy another copy.
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SPC Clayton Ellzey
SFC Mark Merino I read about them fewer than 40 men weren't killed or wounded .During the Siege of Khe San
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A generational divide you don’t hear much about it anymore. I would say the fight and 69th with Jimmy Cagney ranked up there.
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In no particular order here:
--Windtalkers, starting Nicholas Cage. About the Navajo Codetalkers in the Pacific theater of WWII.
--From Here to Eternity. Youngins like me have Pearl Harbor, others are for Tora Tora Tora. From Here to Eternity is the Pearl Harbor movie our parents/grandparents watched.
--Day of the Siege. It's a foreign film, but it's about the Siege of Vienna in the 17th century by the Ottoman empire, and the charge of the Hussars in my opinion was very well done.
--Full Metal Jacket. All Marines know this one, and most know this one for R Lee Ermey's superb acting as the Senior Drill Instructor.
--HBO mini series Generation Kill. I haven't read the book yet, but this mini series gave a refreshing non-politically correct perspective of the Iraq ground war in 2003 and how bad leadership hampers down on everyone. It's also cool to me that Rudy plays himself.
--The Guardian. Coast Guard's only movie that I know of, but it's a solid one. Part of me can't help but wonder if the rescue diver who got his debut in Kerrsville, TX joined the Coast Guard as a rescue diver because of this movie...
--Tuskegee Airmen. We watched this in JROTC. I consider this a better movie than Red Tails which came out a few years ago. If you don't know who the Tuskegee Airmen are you should look them up. A-grade certified badass bunch of dudes.
--Windtalkers, starting Nicholas Cage. About the Navajo Codetalkers in the Pacific theater of WWII.
--From Here to Eternity. Youngins like me have Pearl Harbor, others are for Tora Tora Tora. From Here to Eternity is the Pearl Harbor movie our parents/grandparents watched.
--Day of the Siege. It's a foreign film, but it's about the Siege of Vienna in the 17th century by the Ottoman empire, and the charge of the Hussars in my opinion was very well done.
--Full Metal Jacket. All Marines know this one, and most know this one for R Lee Ermey's superb acting as the Senior Drill Instructor.
--HBO mini series Generation Kill. I haven't read the book yet, but this mini series gave a refreshing non-politically correct perspective of the Iraq ground war in 2003 and how bad leadership hampers down on everyone. It's also cool to me that Rudy plays himself.
--The Guardian. Coast Guard's only movie that I know of, but it's a solid one. Part of me can't help but wonder if the rescue diver who got his debut in Kerrsville, TX joined the Coast Guard as a rescue diver because of this movie...
--Tuskegee Airmen. We watched this in JROTC. I consider this a better movie than Red Tails which came out a few years ago. If you don't know who the Tuskegee Airmen are you should look them up. A-grade certified badass bunch of dudes.
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