What is the biggest military movie/TV goof, basically the military Movie/TV mistakes that annoys you the most?

All and have mentioned M.A.S.H the thing about saluting officers in field situation or front line positions, not going to happen.

A1C Connie Moffitt - Marines are Marines, not navy.

How about in Westerns where the horses never got shot. According to historians, they aimed for the horses first. Hollywood didn’t think (and rightfully so) that the viewing public had the stomach for seeing horses getting killed

PFC Stan Bussanich - But what is written on your check? It says,"Department of the Navy"

I was a soldier, I was in the army. Marines are marines are marines, they are part of the navy but they are not sailors. Sailors are in the navy and airmen are part of the Air Force. What will we call the Space Force members? The far-outs?

SP5 Art Schleinkofer - I would suggest

26 years in the Army and I'd only call a Marine, Airman, or Seaman Soldier if I wanted to piss them off purposely. similarly it works well to just call all Marine NCOs Sergeant

One vet making joke about another vet’s branch of service is one thing BUT we will not stand for a non-vet to do it.

Capt. Sanders, where were you stationed? We had a great bunch of OV-10 guys at Danang. Watched one of their pilots make the best gear up landing I have seen. Came in on foam with a splash, the aircraft landed straight, the pilot got out, we gave a huge cheer and he bowed from the waist. A real class act indeed.

That movie was hot garbage . Lol!

Look up Rach Gia, it is completely possible for John Wayan to be in Vietnam and on a beach and watching the sunset

CPL (Join to see) - I have a problem with that also.

Capt Christian D. Orr - Yes indeed.

You mean that's now how it works? 0.o

Renades that look like 105 rounds going off; grenades and almost any other explosive that sends up a mushroom cloud of flame.

on the grenades : LOLOL on guys being uplifted into the air from one grenade

SSgt William Mavis - I just looked it was made in 1986

PO2 LeRoy Matteson - ok guess im getting old,seems longer but thats also the year the navy,started talking,18 s,when the 14 came out they didnt just dump all the squadrons,they gave them new airplanes...an..jeez.....posed...to ..member...what..decade.....im in

Or the fact that it was only 24 hours from the time they got their orders in top gun school until they were on a carrier, in the flight room, in the IO presumably near the Straits of Hormuz. It took me 32 hours to get from Diego Garcia to Philly. I was physically exhausted.

SCPO Bob Stevens let's not forget he screams he can't reach the rings above his head to eject but on the 14 there was also one between his legs

SPC Brett Robertson - Every man, woman, and child (combatant or not; friend, enemy, or neutral) injured or killed pays with their blood for the orders of officers. There is no question that US soldiers died carrying out Patton's order. It is something that every officer, SNCO, and NCO should understand. That is not my disagreement with your statement.

You assert, "That man truely didn't give [a $#!+] about any of his men's lives. Again I assert that it is a myth. But provide me some actual evidence, not 3rd bar stool on the left rumor. Having the courage to make hard, costly decisions is not, nor was it ever, a sign that those decisions were not painful to make. Asserting that Patton did not care is at best myopic. If you had to spend the life of 20,000 of your men and the injury of 100,000 more to save the lives of 5-10 times more of your own and untold non-combatants, would you? If not seek a different line of work than leading men and women to war.

As far as his decision to slap the soldier, (it actually happened twice, that we know of), it was, as Patton claimed himself, an effort to shame a man back onto a manly course of action. We know from the memoirs of his peers and his immediate circle that Patton was truly doing what he believed was best for those soldiers. He wanted to save them years of psychological pain, personal shame, and status as social pariah's. In the 1940's there was quite a bit of social stigma attached to reassignment because of "shell shock." That social stigma didn't go away when the war ended.

I never saw combat in the Marines. From my first fight in the 5th grade, until my mid 30's, I must have been in 3 dozen or more fights. I didn't start any of them. In fact I walked away from more than I fought. I lost more than I won. A couple of times I was hospitalized [But when an outlaw biker gropes my date, he's gonna get hit. I don't care that his four buddies tell me otherwise. After the second time with the same five guys, they were more respectful toward my dates.] The only fights I regret are the one's, in support of a good cause, that I walked away from, out of fear. Years later they still shame me.

Today we are so busy socially castrating young boys and young men and exorcising "toxic Masculinity" that it has become acceptable to be cowardly. Fear is not cowardice. Allowing that fear to stop you from doing what is necessary is cowardice. I can think of far worse epitaphs for my grave marker than "John wasn't afraid to get his ass whooped for a good cause."

Naval officers pretty much didn’t care.

PO2 Ray McClelland - Naval officers, or Naval Officers? Marine officers are Naval Officers and the worst I saw in Marine Officers still cared about the lives and general welfare of the Marines entrusted to their care.. I served extensively with Navy Officers and while their approach was typically different, I can honestly say I saw no systemic disregard for the lives and welfare of their subordinates.

What can you offer to support your assertion?

SPC Max Thompson - One of the concepts of employing suppresive fire is that you "lean into them." That implies that you do not lift them until you take more casualties from your supporting fires than from letting the enemy pick up his head and start fighting.

So precisely what do you mean with... "I'll tell you this, arty and fast movers aren't very precise, neither are bullets. Some officers give a shit to the point of endangering or losing their lives, and others."

CW2 Michael Mullikin - True

It was actually underway for some of those scenes. It does in fact run, but it wasn't done for the movie the studio just capitalized on the moment

PO1 Eric Jaspers - unless they were a Naval Aviator. We call everything that floats boats.

All Iowa class battleships have to be keep in somewhat operational condition. I can't remember exactly where i learned it but it was incase needed to be called upon for service in a crisis. Last time we used one it was brought back out during the gulf war.

Same here Brother. That’s my biggest irritation.

I never served but i know how to salute. It bugs me too.

Saluting indoors not under cover...big no-no in the Marines

I agree. Actors can do some pretty pathetic salutes.

My favorite was always, I hear you 2 by 2. Too loud and too damn often.

How about, "Roger, Over and OUT?"

Roger, Roger. What's our vector Victor.

Surely, you can't be serious!

Right! An O6 basically orders a Marine's murder but his XO is so scared of telling on him that he chooses to.......kill himself?! That is one powerful O6 my friend.

Just re watched that movie. Think he killed himself because he went along with it at the time and hated what he did. I could be wrong

Lt jg eating an apple while addressing a LCDR. A Marine Col sexually harasses a female Naval officer, in the presence of fellow officers, JAG officers no less, and no one bats an eye. The supposed future director of NSA operations is tricked into confessing all by a "clever" junior JAG attorney. A witness in protective custody, one that has been on the run, slips a loaded 9mm by his guards. Etc, etc, ad nauseum

At the end, LCP Dawson salutes and says “there’s an officer on deck” and LT Kaffee returns an atrocious salute. Pure Hollywood tripe and not surprising considering who directed it.