Posted on Apr 30, 2020
Go Tell the Spartans 1080p Viet war Burt Lancaster 1978#HD
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I was looking up the movie release date - and was surprised to see the whole movie is there! Alot of differences between a movie shot 3 years after the loss in Vietnam and those now - the racism, sterotypes, and the bitterness is often not in the movies made today because we do prefer to filter our look and cut that cr@# out because the storyline often does not need it... but still ... its a good movie dealing with the time when the US was advising the South Vietnamese. For those who never seen it - you will find its a great war flick. Even has PSYOP in it with the color coding of the areas.....
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I generally despise war movies unless they are historically accurate (good luck on that one). But I particularly hate movies made after the Vietnam War because the long hair, anachronisms and inaccurate terminology. It was Hollyweird's way of saying how much they hate the military and our veterans.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
I have to point out that discipline and standards in the Draft Army were a lot different than when it became all volunteer. This was a bit early for guys I grew up around, 1964, but those I knew that were drafted in the 70-73 time frame often came home on leave with haircuts that pushed the limits of the regulation. In the words of my buddy, Bob, "what are they going to do, draft me and send me to Vietnam?" (he did most of three tours before he was wounded bad enough to get discharged). No weight or enforced APFT standard as far as I can tell either.
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SGT Robert Pryor
CPT Lawrence Cable - I can't speak for the military after I left -- after we started our withdrawal from Viet Nam. I'm talking about the trash portraying service members in Viet Nam. Even the draftees when I was in were upstanding Americans that did their part with dignity and valor, nothing like what you see in total crap movies like "Platoon" and other wastes of film. I never saw an overweight, out of shape, slob with long hair in Viet Nam, even among REMFs. But that's what the actors they hired for those movies were. Scum, pure and simple. They weren't good enough to lick the sweat of an ammo bearer's balls, although I'm sure many wanted to do just that. I remember they filmed a WWII movie where I was living in the 1980s and needed extras. I think it was 'Memphis Belle' but I could be wrong on that. The ad in the local paper specifically said if you weren't willing to get and appropriate WWII era haircut, stay the hell away. But Viet Nam movies from a decade earlier were different. They appeared to me to have the sole purpose of continuing the lies and false stereotypes about military service members in Viet Nam.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
SGT Robert Pryor - From my view at the time, didn't start paying a lot of attention until 1968, but I think that the view of the War was changing by 1967. It's hard to keep standards when you start drafting 300,000 a year and still maintain all of the exemptions available even after the lottery started in 1970. Then you may have missed the worst of this too, I heard about this from another friend, Marine that was in country 1967,1968. I researched it because I doubted it was true. http://vvaveteran.org/36-3/36-3_morons.html
The VVA Veteran, a publication of Vietnam Veterans of America
One morning in the summer of 1967, I sat with more than a hundred men in a room at the Armed Forces Induction Center in Nashville. It was the height of the Vietnam War, and I had volunteered for service in the U.S. Army.
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