For me, it was when they were clueless as to what a Flank is.
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Six-Shooter — 13 years ago(October 05, 2012 09:21 PM)
I don't know about the eighties but most teenagers nowadays could probably tell you what a flank is. Admittedly, video games may have assisted that, though.
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crockett_john — 11 years ago(July 05, 2014 02:51 PM)
It was funny because the colonel goes through a plan and gives a bunch of details. When he's satisfied he's explained it to everyone, he asks if there are any questions. Rather than asking the kinds of questions he was expecting, they start asking about the meanings of the words he just said. That makes it comedic.
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TheGuardingDark — 15 years ago(February 23, 2011 11:48 PM)
Most unintentionally hilarious scene? So many choices.
For me it's the firing squad scene where all the prisoners sing America the Beautiful badly and then get shot. Also, why are the Russians using tanks for a firing squad? Also, also, why do they just keep on firing after everyone is clearly dead?
Oh and anytime, anyone says WOLVERINES! Goofiest battle cry, ever.
and anytime, anyone cries.
@ Martin
Well I can't speak for the OP but I found that scene funny because it's designed to show the kids are not professional soldiers, even though the film up to that point has shown them taking out god knows how many professional soldiers without suffering any losses. -
FourDeuce — 15 years ago(February 24, 2011 08:33 AM)
"even though the film up to that point has shown them taking out god knows how many professional soldiers without suffering any losses."
As a former professional soldier, it seems many people on the board give too much credit to most of the soldiers. MOST soldiers are not very professional. The vast majority of them are just in as long as they have to be, and many of them do just as little as they can to get by. Even young kids CAN beat them if they set things up properly and have a little luck. -
thedeb50592000 — 13 years ago(June 20, 2012 06:53 PM)
"The vast majority of them are just in as long as they have to be, and many of them do just as little as they can to get by."
Well, I'm certainly glad that you are no longer a soldier if you had a beep up attitude like that.
I was active-duty Army for 8.5 years in a combat support role (logistics/supply)and although I may have been asked to do things that I didn't want to do or was too tired to do, I always did my very best. -
FourDeuce — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 08:51 AM)
"Well, I'm certainly glad that you are no longer a soldier if you had a beep up attitude like that"
Gee, it's too bad my "attitude" doesn't meet your high standards. It worked well enough for me to spend 15 years on active duty in a Combat Arms MOS.
"I always did my very best."
That's nice, but if you believe your actions show that everybody did the same thing, you didn't spend enough time in the military. Check the enlistment statistics and look at PT test results if you think my claim was wrong. -
boxerrebellion — 13 years ago(February 01, 2013 01:18 PM)
He did not say that HE had that attitude, just that many Soldiers did. There are a number of Sailors also with that attitude, especially if they aren't in a technical field. I don't know much about the Air Force, and most of the Marines I've met are pretty gung ho (and to paraphrase from A Few Good Men, fanatical about being Marines). Unfortunately, there are still a number of enlisted personnel who chose the military over jail time (the Judge gave them a choice), and there are a number of young people who are just slackers and figure that the military is as good a place as any to slack. I'm old school, and before I retired I was flabbergasted by the attitude of some of the young Sailors I worked with and their work ethic. The more senior personnel tended to be older - and either through shared work ethic, or attrition of the slackers, had a much better attitude.
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the_la_baker — 12 years ago(May 30, 2013 11:21 AM)
Everyone I know in the service speaks of the cadets that get "pushed through" even though they can't "hack it". I can only assume you are unaware of this because you yourself were "pushed through". No offense intended, but it might be unavoidable.
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rattlesnake_suitcase — 9 years ago(July 07, 2016 01:17 PM)
I don't thing Bella planned to use the firing squad until that guy started singing. The look on Colonel Bella and the Mayor's face is hilarious, like this is the most awful singing we've ever heard, get the firing squad over here pronto!
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the_bamboo_spear — 15 years ago(March 26, 2011 08:37 PM)
The Cuban and Soviet invaders going to the local sports & hunting store to see who had what rifles at their home. Come on, I get that we're supposed to support the 2nd Amendment and be against the government spying on us, but I think that a grossly outnumbered Soviet and Cuban invasion force is going to have other things to worry about, instead of going through a file cabinet at Oshman's, checking to see if Jim Bob down the street owns an AR-15.
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martin_66 — 15 years ago(March 27, 2011 09:29 AM)
But they weren't greatly outnumbered. They outnumbered, militarily at least, the locals. And if you want to keep order and prevent an armed rebellion what better way to do it than ensure you are the ones holding all the guns?