Posted on May 27, 2016
What is the biggest military movie/TV goof, basically the military Movie/TV mistakes that annoys you the most?
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SCPO Lonny Randolph
I was going to start my own thread on this but yeah... the absolute suckiest piece of crap evah... Especially the attack on Pearl... What - did they mount a half size model of the Utah on a rotissiere and then "capsize" it by rotating it till the decks were level with the surface? Spruance destroyers being blown up? A couple of round-stack frigates getting strafed? Nurses dashing to the hospital perfectly made up on a Sunday morning? Augggggghhhhhh!!!!! Someone needs to be slapped with a brick!
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LT Steve Wilson
My wife asked me what I was shaking my head about after we left the movie.
I replied, "I wonder if the war would have gone any better if they used those Spruance destroyers and Knox frigates shown in the film"
I replied, "I wonder if the war would have gone any better if they used those Spruance destroyers and Knox frigates shown in the film"
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LTJG John Poe
The way Randall Wallace continues to screw up history, starting with "Braveheart". Here, the way he butchered the Doolittle Raid, from the opening scene, when Doolittle wasn't even on active duty, to the last minute changes to the aircraft just before takeoff (actually done weeks before while at Eglin), to the formation flying (like, when you've limited gas, you're going to wait around for almost an hour for everyone else?), to the radio chit-chat (removed at Eglin). And, you don't take a bunch of fighter jocks and put them into medium bombers. Apart from the use of -J models instead of some -C or -D model B-25's, the film switches between what appears to be a straight deck carrier with no forward cats, to an angle-deck with the cats out there for all to see.
To me, anyway, "Tora!..." and "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" were much more accurate in their depictions of these events... not without problems of their own.
To me, anyway, "Tora!..." and "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" were much more accurate in their depictions of these events... not without problems of their own.
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I just want to know where I can get a good automatic M16 with 100+ mag for cheap.
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PO3 George Herget
Amazes me in all these movies, when the soldier or Marine says he's on his last clip. Someone tosses him a clip and he starts firing in bursts of 3-5 rounds. Going to run out again in 5 seconds. Anyone ever hear of precise, single shots!
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SSgt Bruce Probert
We are talking about the 97% of the country who have never been shot at in anger and don't know why fugas explosions are so lame, or that a sonic boom at 50 feet overhead hurts. Or that we all have our worst fears and they are faced at different times. What is truly amazing are the ones that can visualize themselves as Arnold or whomever and all the fake heroics. But then it's hard to portray the fear that you can cut with a knife, the sweat, the blood of friends. But it makes it easy to tell the real from the fools
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CW2 Michael Mullikin
Sometimes you need to read the instructions. In the early seventies we used a flash-bang simulator next to a tank silhouette to indicate the target firing. This wasn't very satisfying since it only produced a small puff of smoke and a bang that couldn't be heard in a moving tank 800 meters away. Up to this point all we did was connect the wires on the simulator and turn the crank when ready. One day, feeling bored, I decided to read the instructions that came with the simulator. Imagine my surprise when I found the outer body of the device unscrewed so that you could put a small amount of gasoline inside before screwing it back together. I wired this one up by the silhouette and when I set it off it produced a small fireball almost identical to a tank main gun going off! Who would have thought it!
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SSG (Join to see)
Gunbroker still has the craptastic 90rd snail drums from the early 2000s for cheap haha.
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SFC Dr. Fred Lockard
If you watch closely in the helicopter scene, he starts out firing an RPG but then it quickly becomes a LAW. Huge gaff.
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SPC Clark Cleghorn
Not to mention Rambo found that helicopter that had been sitting in the jungle rotting for over 20 years, and with no tools or spare parts, he got it running and flying.
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CW2 Michael Mullikin
That has ANYONE not reporting—to a superior officer, for pay, etc.—saluting indoors. To be fair we must acknowledge that in the Air Force a friendly wave counts as a salute.
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MIDN 4/C (Join to see)
No, bootcamp n my secondary school 4 buildings you had to salute indoors to get in. It aggravates me.
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"The Rock" 1996. When the nerve gas was released and Nicolas Cage stuck himself in the CHEST with the antidote. As an NBC guy that really pissed me off, yes, I know artistic license. It's only a movie. But Dammit, they should at least get it right!
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SFC Dr. Fred Lockard
Me too. I was chemical for 14-years and the whole premise pissed me off. So in order to disarm these incredibly destructive rockets you have to go through this elaborate and dangerous disarming procedure; including actually removing the agent-filled canisters?! I don't think so.
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PO3 John Wagner
Somehow or other I had a hard time believing that something which could eat the skin off your bones could be cured with an epi pin.
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LTC Bill Price
I am all for letting the Hollywood types stick big
needles into their chests. Maybe we'll get lucky.
needles into their chests. Maybe we'll get lucky.
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SGT William Howell
SGT David Greth Ironically "stripper" was the shortening self-stripping. So you could actually be self-stripping with your rifle in hand. Just food for thought and a mental picture at no extra cost.
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GySgt Thomas Reichard
SGT David Greth - Correct if referring to the M1903, a Mauser or M-16. The clips for M-1 are en-block clips and are self-ejected when closing the action. There is no "stripping" of the ammo by the shooter.
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CSM Charles Hayden
I will always recall an M-1 pinging as it ejects a spent clip! GySgt Thomas Reichard -
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PVT Ryan Yollen
My boss calls it a clip but I've started correcting him and I think he's catching on
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When it comes to working with Junior Cadets, every other scene in this movie highlights some degree of gaff. What annoys me, though, is they didn't make a sequel. There is certainly enough material out there. I'd be up for a series. Great, great movie.
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LCpl Timothy Markin
I think Major Dad And to some degree, Gomer Pyle were the only tv shows that got anything about the Marines correct, except calling Vince Carter “Sgt Carter.” He’s a Gunny, for God’s sake. Did they call Gunnys just “Sgt” in the 60s? (Has a SSgt that told me “you call a Gunny ‘Sarge,’ he’ll knock you out!”
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"Under Siege", the entire crew of a battleship are taken by a handful of guys, but one guy is able to thwart all the bad guys. Oh! And firing weapons inside the ship and one gets hit by a ricochet.
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SFC Michael Deffendall
Who somehow miraculously goes from Chief Ryback to Lt. Ryback between Under Siege 1 and 2.
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SFC Dr. Fred Lockard
And also, why do they need to build an elaborate system to get the missiles off-board?
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Lol!!! Oh yeah, ya know what really frosts my britches.... When the movies portray 2LT's bumbling knuckleheads that can't use a compass, protractor and map. LOL!!!!
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SSG Jeffrey Monk
My first at Ft Drum couldn't. First ended up getting released from the service and the second was gave us Privates a poor out look on Rangers. In JRTC we were so lost that our OC had to lead us back. Did get to see wild horses an an emu that rotation.
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SFC (Join to see)
I found that is one of the consistently accurate parts of nearly every military movie...
"The most dangerous thing in the military is a lieutenant with a map and compass."
"The most dangerous thing in the military is a lieutenant with a map and compass."
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SSgt Rick Scharnberg
Personal experience. As a 19D as Opfor I was stopped by an Artillery officer and asked where a location was on a map. I was dumbfounded.
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