What movie most closely resembled your own military experience?

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7. "The Last Detail" - not the re-make/Chasers. The Jack NICHOLSON version.

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The ending was stunning. (Below is not the ending.)

The scene where the two Lifers and the prisoner try to get a beer in D.C. where the drinking age was 21 was priceless. The two Lifers/Shore Patrol take their armband (SP) off, with their weapons out of sight under their peacoats. Nobody in the bar (it's, like, 1PM). And the bartender (big, gruff) asks for an I.D. on the kid. And NICHOLSON goes into his NICHOLSON impersonation mode, cajoling for ONE beer. The bartender persists. NICHOLSON persists. Finally the bartender draws the line, "Look, I could lose my license!1 If you guys don't get out of here I'm going to call the Shore Patrol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1"

And it's the perfect set-up for NICHOLSON:

He slams his weapon on the bar and screams, "I *AM* the fucking Shore Patrol!!!!!!!1" And the three bozos run out a down the street laughing their fool heads off.


*********It's everything about how Navy enlisted act and made just for NICHOLSON.