4 Things Veterans Hate That War Movies Get Wrong

"Oorah. Master Chief." - GI Jane
Really??? I didn't know we said that. I thought that was a Marine thing.

Permission to buzz the tower.
Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.
Does it anyway and isn't grounded for life.

The Memphis Belle dropped her payload upon approach; they didn't circle back around because they couldn't see the target. And they weren't shot to all hell like the movie suggests.

The only thing coming out of Hollywood that I can think that gets as close as possible is Band of Brothers. Even surviving members of Easy Company said this was as close to real as it could be.

One that really stands out is Tom Cruise playing a Naval JAG defense counsel in, "A Few Good Men." He's preparing to leave a room where he was speaking to a Marine defendant who is not wearing a cover and admonishes the Marine for not saluting him. Any Naval officer should know that Marines do not salute when not wearing a cover.

Another in the same movie is the made up term "Code Red" for the beat down the defendants are being prosecuted for. There is no such thing as a Code Red in Marine jargon. The Marine term for the beat down depicted is "blanket party."

Sea Story: A friend of a friend Marine Artillery was allegedly an adviser to Michael Bay on "transformers" he provided the proper CFF: 1. Observer ID and Warning Order 2. Target Location 3. Target Description and method of engagement, he even added 'danger close' (which was an understatement.) But he was told this sequence was far too boring and needed to be "cooler" and was pushed to provide additional 'cool words' so he said "at the end you can say 'bring the rain'"

Guess which part of all of that was kept at editing.