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Best example of a real 'military advisor' on the set..."True Lies"...when Arnold confiscates the Marines Harrier and the pilot yells "Hey, you're gonna have to sign for that!"....
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SPC Karim Abdullah
Yep, I remember being "hand receipted" to death in the mid 80s while drawing equipment from supply, weapons from the armory, and any radios from commo.
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SAVING PRIVATE RYAN----All of the characters were wearing black boots. Back then the military wore brown boots.
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Many years ago I saw Apocalypse Now with Marlon Brando. Was later ask If that was how it really was. I laughed and said I loved the music and the action was exciting but there was no way Nam was that way. I was told that I was probably just in the wrong place.
The problem with these movies is that some people believe them. We have all seen them, the M-16 that fires a hundred rounds, the 1911, 45 that fires 20 rounds and the enemy who can not shoot.
The problem with these movies is that some people believe them. We have all seen them, the M-16 that fires a hundred rounds, the 1911, 45 that fires 20 rounds and the enemy who can not shoot.
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Here's one that's a little more obscure but particularly annoying because it's such a great movie. In Saving Private Ryan the squad comes up on a German machine gun position. Tom Hanks decides to get back into the war and take it out. Fine. But after they took out the gun I was just sitting there thinking "Where the hell are the other Germans"? Did they really just set a machine gun in place and have absolutely zero support around it? No overlapping sectors of fire with other guns? No unit 200 meters away? No radio? And once the fight ended the Americans just hung around and dug graves and talked for what seemed like hours. Again, where the hell were the other Germans? Not one German was close enough to hear their buddies in a firefight. Not one German thought "Hey, should we go check on Hans and Franz"? I suppose in the chaos of post D-Day France it's not entirely improbable that a MG team got abandoned (but decided to defend the broken radar site with their lives anyway) but this scene has always bothered me on a tactical level.
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MSgt John McGowan
Capt. My Dad was a WW2 veteran, combat. What little he talked about was people being quite. He told a new SGT, new to the front lines also that if he didn't shut up he would kill him. There was no noise . He lasted less than 9 months before he got hit but he was messed up the rest of his life.
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In the Pilot for Stargate SG1. When in the elevator going down with Col O'neal there is what appears to be a USAF Ssgt 4 stripes down on the chevron, but wearing bronze oak leaves on the shoulder signifying the rank of Major. Is this perhaps a misguide attempt to make him a Sgt Major?
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Oh my god. Man I was watching a show called I almost got away with it. I love watching military aspects and finding things wrong. But in this episode it was a young soldier turned bad situation. The Drill Sergeant was Army, they kept calling him sir, which is a Marine title used for their DI's. Then the Sergeants rank, E-6 on the collars, and had left sleeve stripes, on his non class A uniform, which unless I missed something after 2005 when I got out, you don't wear rank stripes on your duty uniform. But his rank stripes (also on left sleeve, not on right) made him a master sergeant. I also like looking at ribbons and medals and finding them out of order
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Things I really resent seeing in the movies-----Soldiers who disobey their incompetent officers, sadistic sergeants, rapes, murders and other assorted war crimes. A main character who deserts because of crimes he participated in, or witnessed and did nothing about. The main character will become a drug addict or a drunk, and in the end commit suicide. Maybe the director will put in, what he considers an interesting twist, by having him murder his entire family,---mom--dad--baby sister---dog ---grandma in a wheelchair----before he---while sobbing hysterically----puts a pistol to his temple and blows out his own brains.-----AAAHHHHH Tinsel Town------the magic.
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Any depiction of American troops rendering the hand salute with a foreign-style exposed palm.
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SGT Randall Smith
Is saluting even taught in Basic any more? I see active service personnel With their hands cupped, it is touching the brim of the cap, One is putting hand to eyebrow and there are all over their foreheads. When the hand comes down it is not crisp. And many officers sort of wave for a salute.
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Capt Christian D. Orr
SGT Randall Smith - Jeez, what's the world comin' to? And I thought discipline & motivation during my own years of service (1999-2006) were bad!
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A. The sound effects when Apaches fire the cannon - hint, it does't sound like a mini-gun.
(Lone Survivor comes to mind but I know I have heard it other places as well).
B. The fact that the Apaches always fly 100 feet from their target. Always!
(Lone Survivor, one of the G.I. Joe films, a corny Asian Apache vs Dragon film I saw, etc.)
(Lone Survivor comes to mind but I know I have heard it other places as well).
B. The fact that the Apaches always fly 100 feet from their target. Always!
(Lone Survivor, one of the G.I. Joe films, a corny Asian Apache vs Dragon film I saw, etc.)
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