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Army Wives... a female LTC shows up for PT with her jacket collar sticking up AND no one corrects her.
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Small thing, but when talking to male superior Officers and instead of saying "Gentlemen" they say "Sirs." You don't hear Ma'ams so why Sirs?
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SGT Christopher Erickson
SSG Pete Fleming - When I went through Basic it was drilled into us that there is no such term as Sirs. It was Gentlemen in a group of 2 or more male officers and in mixed company Ladies and then gentlemen
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SSG Pete Fleming
SGT Christopher Erickson - I won't deny that. I only said technically sirs is correct... Now take into account that very few writers were in boot camp... They should research more of course and it is a goof, I wasn't trying to undermine it, sarcasm gets lost through a keyboard sometimes.
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SGT Christopher Erickson
SSG Pete Fleming - Too true it does, besides been working in a hot sun today so my sarcasm detector is fried. Normally I speak it fluently. Your previous comment was valid and was less needed.
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Honestly, it's uniform regulations. I never noticed it before the Marine Corps, but once I was in, that's all I can see. The worst example (I can't remember if it was a TV show or movie) was this Marine in his service Alphas... but he was incredibly heavyset. It looked like they would have needed 2-3 belts to circle that Alpha Coat.
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SSG Pete Fleming
hahah, I know. I remember that one. I was not a Marine but come on, no Marine would be like that.
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There's a stupid show called, "over there" I want to burn that set completely down! Horrific depiction of real Soldiers. Maybe national Guard it would be accurate lol
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SSG Pete Fleming
You forget 60% of the Guard are former active duty and most have served in the major theaters now. But, I know what you mean when you say they don't look the part.
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Invasion U.S.A. (10/12) Movie CLIP - It's a Trap! (1985) HD
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https://youtu.be/E5zvQmTrzVU
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PO2 Lemual Martin
Let's not forget Chuck Norris does not need to reload unless he does it for dramatic effect.
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Everything about how the military was presented in George Clooney's epic film The Men Who Stare at Goats!
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Suspended Profile
SSG Pete Fleming - Basically . . . everything . . . the entire movie . . . 21 And A Wakeup (makes nurses look like tramps) . . . Air America (makes brave men look like jokes) . . . The Lord of War (makes that pig Viktor Bout look glamorous) . . . Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (makes serious women look like bimbos) . . . Air Force One / Olympus Has Fallen / London Has Fallen (makes everyone in the executive detail look like Vladimir Putin's commandos) . . . Apocalypse Now . . . The Disappearance of Flight 412 . . . U571 . . . Under Siege . . . The Green Berets . . . Uncommon Valor . . . Last King of Scotland . . . Exodus . . . Raid on Entebbe . . . War Games . . . Dr Strangelove . . . Fail Safe . . . Iron Eagle . . . Kelly's Heros . . . Outbreak . . . On The Beach . . . Wild Geese . . . Dirty Dozen . . . Rambo [Anything] . . . Alien [Anything] . . . Predator . . . Forrest Gump . . . The Postman . . . . Rat Patrol . . . A-Team . . . Air Wolf . . . Red Dawn . . .
Sgt John Koliha
CHINA BEACH bothered me because the Hospital located near CHINA BEACH was a Navy hospital. There were no Navy personnel in the show. Otherwise, much of the stuff in the show was horribly authentic.
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LTC John Griscom
21 and a Wakeup was billed as a "true" story. Piece of garbage. I was one of the last three officers in the 24th Evac Hospital and the nurses had been gone for over a month when I left in September 1972. The hospital had shut down and we were turning equipment in.
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LTC John Griscom - I met Chris McIntyre (USMC [enlisted to avoid being drafted] 67-71) who worked on electronic aviation navigation instrument calibration - with no relationship to 24th Evac Hospital personnel or operations. Marvin Wayne (trauma surgeon assigned to the 24th Evac in 71) claims the credit for being the source of the purportedly "true stories" depicted in the film. But, that is about as far as the truth goes in this overly dramatized extremely low budget ($3,000,000) film showcased at veteran fundraisers - that never saw any theatrical distribution - never saw any Netflix or other streaming media distribution - and is only available by mail order from the film's "official website." While the dramatization is there for effect - the movie made me cringe with disbelief about the plausibility of many of the people, behaviors, and events portrayed. Chris himself writes the film "encompass a dozen true incidents, most importantly those of Dr Marvin Wayne, a top surgeon at the 24th Evac Hospital in 1971." But, he goes on to claim "every event in the film and every major character has a basis in a real event and true story" - which is a bit much considering the implausible theme about one of our nurses freelancing with both Agency and Australian intelligence guys to invade Cambodia - killing two border guards along the way - to save a young girl from some secret bombing raid. This all feels too deeply inspired by James Bond, Rambo, Kelly's Heros, and similar movies. I hated the film - felt I wasted an hour and half of my life. This was left wing anti-war propaganda at its worst. Warmest Regards, Sandy :)
https://www.rogerebert.com/letters/i-was-there-its-my-story-and-youre-wrong
http://abc7.com/archive/7087373/
https://www.rogerebert.com/letters/i-was-there-its-my-story-and-youre-wrong
http://abc7.com/archive/7087373/
I was there, it's my story, and you're wrong | Letters | Roger Ebert
From Marvin A. Wayne, M.D., Bellingham, Washington:
LTC John Griscom
1LT Sandy Annala - Thanks, Sandy.
I got to the 24th Evac in September 1971. Don't remember a Dr. Wayne: he may have left before I got there. But can pretty much guarantee that if everyone had done what was depicted in that movie, the hospital commander, COL Straton, would have court-martialed them. Nothing was ever mentioned about anything resembling the alleged events. Things were not that loose in the 24th.
I was invited to a showing of the "movie" in Birmingham and there was nothing in it anything like the unit during my year there.
Best wishes, John
I got to the 24th Evac in September 1971. Don't remember a Dr. Wayne: he may have left before I got there. But can pretty much guarantee that if everyone had done what was depicted in that movie, the hospital commander, COL Straton, would have court-martialed them. Nothing was ever mentioned about anything resembling the alleged events. Things were not that loose in the 24th.
I was invited to a showing of the "movie" in Birmingham and there was nothing in it anything like the unit during my year there.
Best wishes, John
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Changing weapon configuration and equipment mid-flight and women's hair in uniform!
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SSG Pete Fleming
Sometimes it changes back and forth during the same fight scene (Braveheart did that)
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SSG Pete Fleming
I do hate that as well. I that an example was the Star Trek reboot... a cadent, who didn't complete school, became Captain! It didn't work that way back when militias would vote who the wanted as officers, hahaha
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