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Pretty much all the new submarine movies. If you want to know what life on a sub is like watch 2 movies. "Das But" and "Down Periscope". The first was written by a reporter who was actually on a submarine and the second puts the crazy side of submariners on display. And we actually had a person tie a frozen chicken to each shoulder and dress up like a pirate once. One he called Polly. Can't remember what the other was called but it was something stupid. lol
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PO3 Donald Murphy
LCpl Leo Morrissey - Yup. Thats the correct spelling. Most accurate war movie ever.
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Had a friend aboard nuke boats when they were filming The Hunt For Red October (his was the one that did the 45-deg surface breach). He told me "See all those colorful indicators and lights? They are there. They're all green."
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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
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Jeff Zimnickas
The reason Hogans Heros always took place during winter is so syndication could show it in any order.
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In the movie, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, there is a scene where an Army general, General Scott Watson and a civilian contractor, George Grove are both seated when an Army captain approaches the two men and pops a salute while still in step....
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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.
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SN Mike Duffy
Meme-worthy mistakes. My buddy posted one, cute girl holding a soldering iron by the hot part below the handle. Many more.
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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.
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SPC Darren Koele
Invasion USA... Chuck Norris power...
He did the same thing in Invasion USA. Icing on the cake was he put a round on each side a door while he was like 10feet way. The grenades still went off, blowing nice human sized holes in the wall, the door wasn't scratched and Chucky remained unscathed.
Like this:
https://youtu.be/HkLgWhrhqtY
Like this:
https://youtu.be/HkLgWhrhqtY
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PO3 Donald Murphy
Lets also not forget Arnie and Stallones' never-ending-bullet-belts for their M-60's...
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SGT Randall Smith
Yes, Stallone can fire 20,000 from his M-60. But what they forget is it started cooking off rounds way before that. Have you ever seen anyone change the barrel on their 60?
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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
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In the movie Pearl Harbor, background ships Knox Class DE/FF first commissioned in 1969, and Spruance Class DD first commissioned in 1975. Or any military movie with revisionist history.
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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!
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!
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Iron Eagle's got to be the epidemi of being one of the worst military movies ever. So many campy lines in that movie. One of the big things that they got wrong I didn't consider until I was in my first flying assignment, was the Air Refueling bridge. That does not happen in a vacuum. You don't just call up your local KC-135 squadron and request 15 tankers, which is what it would take back then to get you from California to Libya. Yeah "SAC" is going to approve all those assets for one rouge mission. TAC is going to approve that sortie, no one will notice a 19 hour training mission., not like that requires a higher HQ approval.
Ironically that movie had a military film liaison office supporting it. Unfortunately it was not a US one. It was supported by the Israeli Air Force.
Ironically that movie had a military film liaison office supporting it. Unfortunately it was not a US one. It was supported by the Israeli Air Force.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
That wasn't Ralph Macchio (Karate Kid) - it was some other guy. But his young friend would go on to be a Spec Ops shooter in "Extreme Prejudice." As an Air Force brat, I enjoyed the craziness in the movie as well. Tho to their credit, I know many items that were "stolen" from "secure" locations by kids using teenage girls as "bait" to keep the "guards" from noticing. I was working summer hire on base and we needed a truck to move some stuff. I won't tell you where it was taken from... But the method was the same.
Mary (name changed to protect the guilty) was asked to go to the office. Now, Mary had double D breasts which was unheard of in 1982. Especially on an 18 year old. The young GI's were verrrrrrrrry occupied with listening to her say how she was on summer hire for the first time and really didn't know what job she'd be good at, etc. While they were busy listening to her, one of our tribe took the keys right off the hook. Sadly, we were back before they knew we'd taken their Sherpa.
Mary (name changed to protect the guilty) was asked to go to the office. Now, Mary had double D breasts which was unheard of in 1982. Especially on an 18 year old. The young GI's were verrrrrrrrry occupied with listening to her say how she was on summer hire for the first time and really didn't know what job she'd be good at, etc. While they were busy listening to her, one of our tribe took the keys right off the hook. Sadly, we were back before they knew we'd taken their Sherpa.
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Sgt Mike Sarris
PO3 Donald Murphy - You're right, I had to look it up, some kid named Jason Gedrick...Iron Eagle was so good it ruined his career, I haven't seen or heard of him since!
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PO3 Donald Murphy
Sgt Mike Sarris - Now that you mention it, we haven't seen Louis Gosset Jr. either...
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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.
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Cpl Phil Hsueh
Much like how military pilots can fly anything with wings, including helicopters, esp. if they're fighter pilots.
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SGT Randall Smith
Every radio always works and there is never interference. The batteries are always fully charged and every one knows the SSI and call signs.
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Hardly ever black people are seen in movies about war... When we are... We die early
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SGT Randall Smith
I noticed that. But in our platoon there were 7 E-5's and 4 of them were black. The only ones that seemed to bother were the northern guys. Most of us were from the south and Texas. Hell, none of us liked the Yankee guys. They talked funny and ate weird food.
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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.
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