Most memorable military "movie discrepancies"?

<p>Rambo, when rescuing the POWs in Vietnam, landing the Huey in the river, then shooting the LAW thru the front window at the Russian HIN-D....with all those POW's in the back blast area.....oops.....and nobody harmed!</p><p><br></p>

Battleship (2012)

The USS Missouri memorial got underway with less than a skeleton crew but more importantly, it is a museum ship. It does not have any fuel on board nor any capability to get underway. It also does not have 16" shells nor powder on board. Not only that but to fire the 16" guns, it takes a crew of no less than 90 Sailors to fire the guns. Also, a 16" high explosive shell weighs about 2700 pounds, not 1000 pounds as stated in the movie. It cannot be carried from 1 turret to another above nor below decks. When missiles are fired at the alien ship - they were SM2 when they were launched but turned into Tomahawks as they flew towards the aliens. (former Battleship Sailor)

All of them. Too many to name. The best part for me is how aggravated my wife gets with me when I point them out. "it's just a movie". Nope, at least try and get close...all I am asking.

My wife sends me to our room and watches TV downstairs with the kids. Since military educators have not come out with the family version of "Hooked on Phonetics" yet, my kids are none the wiser when they hear "Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot" or "Bravo-Sierra" coming from the bedroom.

In the climactic scene of the 1989 civil war epic Glory, the ocean is on the wrong side during the attack on Fort Wagner.

One of the X-men movies depicts the infamous Cuban missile crisis (Oct '62) with Russia and the marines on the deck of the ships are carrying M-16's. Those did not hit service until 1964!

In "I Am Legend": First off Will Smith in Class A's and having a beard. Yeah, he COULD have had a shaving profile, but not with that baby face... And then during the final zombie assault on his house, when he is shooting his M4. When he runs out of ammo during the fight you will hear his rifle go "bang, bang, bang, click, click, click, click." Uhm sorry, but an M4 uses a single action trigger mechanism and the bolt locks back after the last shot. No "click, click, click" after you run out of ammo.

The one (among many others) that ticks me off every time I see it is the movie "A Few Good Men."  In it a procedure called a "Code Red" ends up killing another Marine.  I spent a total of 16 years in the Corps and never heard of a "Code Red."  No Marine in his right mind would risk losing his hard-earned stripes beating the crap out of another Marine as part of a mob.  Drunken fights, that's a different thing.  All branches see those, I'm sure.  Now, I did see an involuntary bath given to a Marine because he never bathed and stunk to high Heaven.  Living at the time in an open squad-bay his B.O. wafted throughout the entire barracks and just got to be too much to take.  Floor-scrubbing brushes (the type with pretty stiff bristles) were used along with Lava soap.  He was told this would happen once a week unless he started bathing frequently.  It worked.  Never smelled him again.  As far as the "Code Red" goes, it is absolutely ludicrous.  But then again, Hollywood never lets the facts get in the way of a good story, especially an anti-military movie.  The movie portrays all enlisted Marines as being either robots who carry out orders without EVER questioning their lawfulness; or hard-ass, blood-thirsty killers.  They don't do Officers any favors in that movie either, except the liberal Lieutenant (JG) who's an attorney and all the other lawyers in the movie.  Of course we all know lawyers have high moral and professional standards as witnessed by all the ones in Washington, D.C. who are currently running (ruining?) our Country.  Either way you get the impression that Marines are not too bright, certainly not as smart as a Naval Officer performing as a lawyer.  In my experience real Naval Officers and Marine Officers are both extremely bright and many enlisted personnel are also pretty dang smart, too.  That "Code Red" business just ticks me off, though.  As far as Military Appearance (uniforms, haircuts, etc.) there are just too many movies to name where those things are FUBAR.  The sad thing about "A Few Good Men" is it's actually a pretty good movie as far as it's entertainment value.  Jack Nicholson is extremely believable as a Jarhead, even as limited as his character is through the screen play.  But I just can't see a Marine Corps Colonel, primed to get his first star, taking the route Nicholson's character does as far as the embittered Marine PFC Santiago, his demise and the cover-up that followed.  You don't rise to a full-bird Colonel in the Marines without great leadership abilities, which is the main thing that Nicholson's character lacks.  The one Marine Corps movie that made me feel as though I was re-living part of my youth is "Jarhead."  Accurate in every detail except when I went through (right after the Vietnam war ended) Drill Instructors still used their hands to emphasize a point, sort of like the movie, "Full Metal Jacket," but to a lesser extent.     

It was basically the entire movie "Broken Arrow" with John Travolta and Christian Slater. 1st Broken Arrow isn't even the code for lost nuclear weapons, it is Bent Arrow, according to "We Were Soldiers", Broken Arrow means a US unit is being overrun and all aircraft in the AOR are supposed to come in for air support. The 2nd one was when they hit the "Stealth switch" on the B-2, oh man that had me rolling!

In Feb 2001, the film crew came onboard the USS Carl Vinson to film "Behind Enemy Lines." We were requested to be extras in the background while on the flight deck:

In one scene, Owen Wilson catapults a football. A BIG, no-no. In another scene, Gene Hackman walks onto the flight deck with his cranial underneath his armpit - a HUGE no-no for flight ops protocol. We are always manned up and ready in full flight-deck gear whenever we get ready for flight ops. But, for the sake of Hollywood, they wanted it in the movie.

In the picture, I am with actor, Malik Whitfield.