What is the biggest military movie/TV goof, basically the military Movie/TV mistakes that annoys you the most?

There was this one Hallmark movie my mother-in-law watched on a regular basis. I don't recall the name of it, but me, my wife (Army vet) and my brother-in-law (Marine vet) all dubbed it "Operation Epic Sweater Fail", because it presented the old green Army Service Uniforms (from Dress to Class B) as consisting of the nothing but a garrison sweater, decorations on said garrison sweater and dress pants. I mean, c',mon, I'm Navy and when I can notice such a seriously hosed-up outfit, that's bad.

Big Wednesday - Ranger Tab on the right shoulder.

Deer Hunter- Robert DeNiro wears a Green Beret with a 101 ABN DIV patch.

Any combat action movie where all the battle uniforms are brand new clean and free from rips, tears, holes, filth, et al.

There is no end to the number of teeth grinding mistakes in Hollywood fair. However some of the biggest blunders I've seen are the wrist watch in Glory, black boots on WWII GIs, and an Italian made film I once saw where a jeep comes around a bend and runs into the field of fire of a MG-42. The gun shreds the driver and passenger, but the dirty windshield that was up during the head on assault was undamaged. Also, let us not forget the Battle of the Bulge were not a single German tank was accurate or every British colonial movie that has the lads in the scarlet blouse after they changed to khaki. Don't even want to get into the French Foreign Legion uniform failures. A few years back I spent a couple days with Dale Dye. He was keynoting a seminar at a war games convention. His company trains Hollywood actors to look real in war movies. I asked him what was the hardest part of his job and he said teaching someone who thinks the sun doesn't wake up until he does, how to function in a team. Most movies center on a protagonist...several folks striving together to accomplish a goal is unthinkable to them. I guess that's why the best war movies I've seen show the importance of teamwork, sacrifice and trust. Goofs aside, that's what makes a movie REAL to me.

The movie Virus.

It's more of a general mistake on a multitude of modernist, Hollywood crap movies. Mostly sc-fi stuff. They'll have some PhD scientist who is directing special forces on some science puke mission. Hollywood portrays the special forces as insubordinate, cocky assholes. The reality is that special forces take the mission very seriously and are 100% professional about it. Cocky, insubordinate assholes don't get very far in the military. But hey, the liberal elite hate the military so what do you expect?

In the latest movie In Our Hands is about the capture of Jerusalem in 1967 Israeli Yom Kippur War, there is a scene of a C130 dropping jumper using the new T-11 'chutes.
I am still thinking of writing Gordon Roberts from the 700 Club about this goof, but oh well. It is all about the story and the victory not about the props.

Not the biggest, but we did have a wonderful time back in 1970 at the CJFM "Bijou" Theatre near Nha-Trang watching The Duke in "The Green Berets". The sun setting in the East was icing on the cake. Some of us knew how incendiary it was to have an actor of Japanese descent (George Takei) playing an ARVN officer.

F troop! - all of it. Hogan's Hero's! All of it. Gomer Pyle! All of it. If that's what you mean. Oh I forgot one. TROPIC THUNDER! Too funny!

In "The Guns of Navaronne", the German troops jump into two weapons carriers and drive away with the tailgates up. The word "DODGE" is clearly embossed in the sheet metal in large letters across the tailgate.

In the sf movie Independence Day Will Smith has his blouse emailer OVER the blouse collar. He supposed to be a Marine for heavens sake. Also, most of the scenes in Top Gun with Cruze as a Navy fighter pilot anyone who. Isolated procedure like his character does would find him self as executive officer of a mess kit repair squadron in North Dakota!