For me, it was when they were clueless as to what a Flank is.
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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?
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the_bamboo_spear — 15 years ago(March 27, 2011 03:36 PM)
In this country, it's a waste of time. For every registered gun there are 20 of them under beds, under pillows, stuck in gloveboxes, bought from a friend, or at a gunshow, or from a pawnshop, or stolen (or bought on Gunbroker.com these days). Why send valuable, English-speaking resources down to the local gunshop just to find out which guys have shotguns and sporting rifles? Who cares? Chances are, those guys were killed in the initial invasion because they were the guys out there in the street, shooting paratroopers.
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s-pound — 14 years ago(September 17, 2011 07:50 PM)
When the boys sneak back into town and go into the drug store, the clerk says discreetly "they're looking for you", to Jed.
Jed responds, "who?"
Gee, I wonder Jed. Maybe it's the Denver Broncos looking for good strong safety or maybe, just possibly, remotely, it's the commies who have dropped in and laid waste to your entire realm of existence.
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sascha-17 — 13 years ago(November 12, 2012 08:12 AM)
Why send valuable, English-speaking resources down to the local gunshop just to find out which guys have shotguns and sporting rifles?
Because John Milius is probably the biggest gun-nut in Hollywood? That whole premise could only have come from someone who believes/argues that the 2nd amendment is still a valid tool to keep the gouvernment in check. You know? The old "only dictatorships want to make owning a gun illegal"-argument.
Back on topic:
Gotta be "Aveeeeenge meeeeeeee!" for me as well. Classic 80s-cheese. Shows what a great actor Harry is.. To deliver that line without breaking into laughter? That's tough.
The whole idea of a bunch of regular kids being able to form a successful resistance group and kill Russian soldiers by the truckload. Yeah, I know not all soldiers are invincible fighting machines, and the Soviets did have a conscript army. But even conscripts get a lot more training than any of these kids ever had. And I seriously doubt the Soviets would have used green troops to spearhead such an invasion.
Also: Worst tankbattle ever. John Milius should know (and probably does know) that tanks never operate without heavy infantry support.
S.