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

RE the above photo from "Hogan's Heroes" (which I watched religiously every Friday night): I always laughed when the camera would catch a glimpse of the desert mountains and palm trees surrounding the location where they filmed each episode. Another thing - every episode was set in winter and there was always patches of fake snow lying around. The actors had to dress as if it were really winter time (heavy coats, gloves, mufflers etc.) even though you knew they were really sweating their asses off dressing that way in Southern California! :D

When the salute is depicted as the highest act of respect a soldier can bestow on another, when it's really just the civilian equivalent of shaking hands. Oh and whenever weapons are leveled at someone, there's that mysterious clicking as if they're all being charged at the same time. But the list goes on and on and on...It makes you realize that other professions we only know through TV and movies are probably grossly distorted too.

Chuck Norris in the terrible movie, though I loved it at the time, "Delta Force". He fires two grenades from a M-203 Grenade Launcher, which is a single shot breach load weapon.

In the movie Pearl Harbor with Ben Afflack I noticed a couple M-715 Trucks in the movie-these trucks were used from about 1967-71

In one of those horribly bad Iron Eagle movies in the '80's, they did a few thousand things wrong, but two really got me. I was Scheduler for about a year, and changing a bomb load is a not as easy as just punching some keys on a keyboard, and it's sure as hell not gonna happen in the next 15 minutes unless we're at war. The really big one was launching a missile while on the runway...has no one in Hollyweird ever heard of a "Weight On Wheels" switch? It's kind of an important safety feature, so WE CAN'T LAUNCH WEAPONS WHILE ON THE GROUND!!!!

Don't even get me started about when the Karate Kid was flying a single seat F-16 and put his Dad in behind him!

What, was he a gymnast...wait, I know, he had a a side gig in a freakshow as a contortionist!

The barrels never get shot out...the magazines never empty...200 meter one handed pistol shots...EVERY GI can operate a armored vehicle, aircraft, and is proficient in demolition and bomb defusing.

Hardly ever black people are seen in movies about war... When we are... We die early

Few Good Men, Cruise calling ANY colonel an SOB, expecting a salute indoors, at the end getting a salute indoors without a cover, by a prisoner. Movie with Mario Van Peeples on some battleship all officers wearing Army officer rank. These huge 2 inch 0-6 birds. Problem is since less than 2% of the elegiable people served in the last 20-30 years, no one knows if the uniform is wrong. Seriously, how much more does it add to the cost of a picture to get a technical advisor to make sure the uniform is at least correct.

As a pilot, inaccuracies in flying scenes and machines drive me nuts. Movies that show the interior of one type of aircraft, such as a C-130, and then an exterior shot on a C-17, or jet noises for WWII prop planes. I recently watched a History Channel movie on the Normandy invasion during WWII. When they talked about the airdrops behind the beaches in France they showed footage of C-130s doing personnel drops. You'd think the History Channel could be more accurate. C-47s made most of the airdrops during the Normandy invasion and I'm pretty sure there's historical stock footage of C-47 airdrops. The C-130 wasn't brought into service for about another 10 years.

The other thing that bothers me is the seeming invincibility of US and Allied aircraft. In some movies the enemy aircraft shoot hundreds of rounds at US fighters, but never hit them. The US fighter gets 5 seconds of a good gun solution and smokes the enemy every time. That's pretty much pure fiction. The "bad guys" aren't always bad shots and the Americans aren't always super accurate.

I can deal with air-to-air or intergalactic combat scenes that show human, or at least organic, beings performing maneuvers that would generate forces that would kill most people. After all it's science fiction. It doesn't portend to be real, so a little unreal maneuvering of X-wing fighters for drama is okay.

Non-documentary movies and TV shows have always made bloopers when it comes to the military. I remember watching the TV show Six Million Dollar Man (I know that dates me) in one show he was a captain, a major and a LTC all within a half hour.