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For me, it's not so much the movies but most of the tv shows, especially on the Discovery channels or some of the other 'reality' type channels...you'll see a person in 'uniform' but with no name tags on it, nothing really, and the hair of the person is definitely not regulation..that stuff gets to me...as for movies, I kinda expect stuff to be out of whack...especially when it comes to vehicles and the like...Take Patton for example, unless there happen to be a battalion of Tigers lying around the producers had to use something akin to a tiger, also alot of the planes are substituted by alot of look alikes so stuff like that doesn't get to me...it's the stuff that can actually be 'worked' with that get to me....
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I caught Mel Gibson and his CSM in one scene of We Were Soldiers where he was in his uniform and was wearing a Blue Agelet on the right shoulder and a brown one on the left and his CSM was wearing the same thing. They were two different sizes, the blue being a big open weave while the brown one looked about the size of shoe string tie. It just looked weird.
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LTC Joseph Gross
I'd have to look again but I'm sure they were wearing the Infantry cord on the right shoulder and either the French or Belgian Foureigere on the left shoulder. These are correct for their time in service.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
LTC Joseph Gross - It was the French one. My dad had the Belgian fourragère and it was way more red, plus it could only be worn by those personnel who were in the unit when it was earned. The French fourragère could also be worn by personnel while they were assigned to the unit.
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PO1 Robert Johnson
Thank you all for the info. I have never spent much time around army types with the exception of my tour in Viet Nam but even then I worked with Vietnamese public health workers most of the time, assigned to Kien Giang Province. Army units down there were almost all small 7-8 man MACV advisory teams.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
Also the production credits are wrong. We know Mel Gibson didn't direct it because the enemy isn't the British... Thank you; I'm here all week.
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Down Periscope was a submarine movie that well did not put a positive outlook for submariners. Yes the movie was for entertainment and all other military movies need to be seen as just that for
entertainment only.
entertainment only.
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PO1 Edward Spencer
I honestly think Down Periscope is the most accurate Navy movie that's yet been made. And I honestly wonder if they had a nuke on the writer's staff- every nuke submariner I know maintains that it's the most accurate movie about the *nuclear* navy ever made.
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PO1 Kevin Arnold
PO1 Edward Spencer - It's a funny movie; however, they were supposedly on a Diesel engine submarine. There were scenes that were nothing like the real thing and others were like yeah that has happened. Especially when in control and they were trying to be quiet when the cook let out a large fart. Then afterwards they all wanted to almost kill that cook.
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I loved this movie, who cares about accuracy although it was better than most serious ones.
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SSG (Join to see)
There are submarines in that movie? I only ever see Lauren Holly against a fuzzy background talking to the teacher from Charlie brown...
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Sp4 Byron Skinner…If you ca stomach war movies, you haven't had enough combat. They all are garbage and are exploiting the memories of those we had to put in body bags.
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Good guys running ahead of bullets an no bulletsthem hitting every tqtgettargets
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How about in Courage Under Fire when Denzel is rolling into battle, at night, sitting high in the TC's hatch and the driver sitting high with the hatch open. So, what is the driver's life expectancy as soon as the gunner traverses to one side or the other to engage a target at close proximity? Or could that driver catch a T-62 round with his teeth? Good carnival trick!
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PO3 Donald Murphy
Oh come on...hasn't everyone put their girlfriend on the stove and applied heat to her butt? We were watching that one night and my wife turns to me and says "don't even think about it..."
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SGT Randall Smith
I have seen Stripes about 4 times and love it. Every time I find something new to laugh at. They didn't even try to be a serious movie. They skipped the parts of Saturday inspections, PT, Classes, no squad corporal and no one in the company HQ wondered what they were doing. This was a farce and well done.
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My favorite TV show in the military venue to hate was Mc Hales Navy! Granted it was supposed to be a comedy but the humor fairy must have been on an extended vacation while that series was running. The situations were rotten, the characters screwed up and the jokes were as flat as month old beer. I think that the only saving grace in the whole series was Tim Conway.
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I love the movies on the Sci Fy channel, that show the troops fighting the monsters, wearing ribbons on their BDU's, or the Captain of the carrier, on the bridge, at sea (for a number of days) watching his Air Group launch aircraft, in dress Blues, and wearing his medals of course!
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PO1 Edward Spencer
One of the CO's of my carrier was quite fond of wearing his dress whites on the bridge during flight ops. Granted, not the choker whites with full medals...
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MSgt Jim Bain
I started my military service in the Navy also, was on the Franklin D Roosevelt CVA42, CAG 1, VA-172. One day during flight ops My buddy and went up on the island to take some pictures, while standing there, I get a tap on the shoulder, turn around and theirs a 2 star, in his whites, asking me if I got any" good ones"! Flight ops, wearing whites,....?? found out later, he was flying off for a meeting on the beach, we were just off of Naples!
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