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

Sometimes you wonder if ANYONE higher up even glanced at the screenplay. Totally inaccurate representation of the USCG in almost every show.
I have talked to Chuck Pffarer who wrote the screenplay for Navy Seals, his comment was I gave them filet mignon, the settled for a baloney sandwich.

There are so many.

But I will pick on Pearl Harbor.

#1. An Officer is "ordered" to join the RAF Eagle Squadron. Nope.. Never happened. The US State Department was opposed to any US Citizen going to England to "volunteer" to serve in the RAF. Let alone a serving Officer is given orders from their commanding officer to do so.

#2. Said Officer was in New York showing his girlfriend around. Then boards a Train to go to his RAF Adventure.. I am unaware of a tunnel being reached by train to England in 1940. If he is going to a ship.. New York Harbor is right there..

#3. The Black Mess Attendant played by Cuba Gooding Jr is based on a real-life person. Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris “Dorie” Miller. Who manned a 50 Caliber gun on the USS West Virginia during the attack. He won the Navy Cross for his efforts. But in the movie, he shot down a plane. There is no record of any aircraft being shot down by anyone on the USS West Virginia on that day. He was recognized for his bravery in assisting his wounded captain and then manning the weapon after the original crew was killed or wounded. Not for shooting down planes.

#4. USAAF pilots who were laterally transferred between Fighter Squadrons and Bomber Squadrons such as the two pilots who flew P-40's over Pearl Harbor (Which by the way.. never happened at the altitudes they depicted in the movie) to become B-25 Pilots in the Doolittle Raiders. Never happened in real life.

I could go on and on about this movie for historical foul-ups and outright stupidity in depicting military even in those times.

Oh yeah...and Heartbreak Ridge, nominated for the terminally putrid portrayal of recruits.

Ice Station Zebra, where enemy MIGs flew over the submarine. .but the camera was waggled back and forth to try to hide the fact that the formations was actually F-4s.

Top Gun where the crash of a supposed advanced fighter turns out to stick footage of a T-33 trainer, introduced in 1948.

I REALLY hate when film makers substitute other aircraft for the ones intended. Cheap b**tards.

Movies that depict an assault (of ANY kind) appearing as the Boss is closely surrounded by his 'Posse" - all ganged together in close quarters. What true military idiots are most directors to depict (and continue doing so) our military (or anyone else's for that matter) assaulting an objective in that manner. Oh look, we're all bunched up and simple to hit! Nutty and stupid. All of it.

Was watching the TV show A Long Way Home. Two different contingents of soldiers ambushed and trapped by insurgents, running out of ammo and no one coming to help. I can't believe no one called in for air support to give them some help. This show is based on a true story, so why was no one smart enough to use the resources available to them to save these guys?

Ran out of MP-40s.

The commies that produce them.

Casting Tom Cruise in any military movie

The Great Escape, the Dirty Dozen and the Devil's Brigade are the best military movies. Stripes was pathetic. Bill Murray is not an
actor. WW II movies and movies about the Vietnam War are the best military movies.