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No idea in movies, but in novels it is referring to everyone in the military no matter the branch or component as a soldier. Or making everyone on the team officers....
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CSM Mike Kalberg
Point taken Meloni but I have first-hand evidence that you, LTC Beauchamp, were a damn good soldier yourself! Just sayin'!
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Besides the 1000 round M4 magazines or uniform violations or actors that can't wear a beret correctly, my biggest goof- beef is that in some shows EVERYBODY has nicknames. No rank respect just nicknames. Ayfkm? Maybe in a squad but not through the entire brigade. My 1sg hated being called top. He would always tell us that if we pulled his string that his head wouldn't pop off and start spinning, ours might.
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SGT Randall Smith
Every First Sgt. I ever had never minded being called TOP, First or First Sgt. But none wanted to be called Sarge. Even I did not like it and I was just a Buck Sgt.
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Interceptor. I first saw this in the movie theater. I was laughing when they showed the inside of the C-5 plane. The audience thought I was crazy. I got a few sideways looks. I was a jet engine mechanic for the C-5!
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laugh all you want but Gomer Pyle was very accurate on the uniform and he wore it well.
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Sgt John Koliha
Yeah, but calling the Gunnery Sergeant "Sarge" always pissed me off. Never could happen, EVER!
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Fireball explosions. Drives me crazy.
Karate and knife fights. Karate because all fights end on the ground with punches. Knife fights because when you actually have one everybody involved gets cut and stabbed..there are no winners.
Karate and knife fights. Karate because all fights end on the ground with punches. Knife fights because when you actually have one everybody involved gets cut and stabbed..there are no winners.
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SGT Randall Smith
We had a kid that always talked about his Karate skills. Then one fine day he had a argument with a SSG. He went Eeia on the way to the ground. It seems a wooden mallet can break a jaw before a kick can land. When he got out of the hospital in Japan he was sent back to us. You would have thought that SSG was a General from the respect he was given.
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When i see the poor excuse for uniforms, improper insignia, badly needing a haircut, if the are going to play the part of Military people Couldn't they at least get it right ? That annoys Me a lot !
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In an episode of Army Wives a field-grade officer had his name on the left and the US Army on the right of his ACU coat.
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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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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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