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jmowreader

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22. They will never make a movie about my military experience

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2019, 01:05 AM

May 2019

I sat in a room with no windows and read my computer screen...and every so often I would split the screen in half, type up a message of a few lines and send it to my team chief to be transmitted.

It would rate somewhere between the movie "Ass" in Idiocracy ("...and that's all it was for 93 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including Best Screenplay.&quot and that new documentary about watching paint dry.

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What movie most closely resembled your own military experience? [View all] MrScorpio May 2019 OP

I was living in Saigon for 6 months in 1967. Way too much like Good Morning wasupaloopa May 2019 #1

What??? No MASH? n/t GP6971 May 2019 #2

MASH..My husband, literally, was the RADAR where he was stationed. Tikki May 2019 #12

Falcon and the Snowman, Spygame, Breach, The Recruit. NightWatcher May 2019 #3

EASY RIDER pangaia May 2019 #4

As a Marine Corps brat, it's gonna be Leghorn21 May 2019 #5

Dr. Strangelove Ptah May 2019 #6

"The Last Detail" - not the re-make/Chasers. The Jack NICHOLSON version. UTUSN May 2019 #7

Plus 1 denbot May 2019 #20

A mix of No Time for Sergeants and Private Benjamin n/t sarge43 May 2019 #8

Funny story about No Time For Sergeants... MrScorpio May 2019 #10

I saw when it first came out. sarge43 May 2019 #11

Songtan Si, the Korean town just out the front gate of base MrScorpio May 2019 #14

"Tribes" lastlib May 2019 #9

Jarhead (nt) Recursion May 2019 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar May 2019 #15

'Jarhead' and 'Three Kings'. Aristus May 2019 #16

Gardens Of Stone DashOneBravo May 2019 #17

Were you stationed at Fort Myer? MrScorpio May 2019 #18

Nope DashOneBravo May 2019 #31

For me, jrandom421 May 2019 #19

It's been Red Dawn since 2016 ProudLib72 May 2019 #21

They will never make a movie about my military experience jmowreader May 2019 #22

Operation Petticoat Submariner May 2019 #23

"An Officer and a Gentleman" Shrek May 2019 #24

It was filmed at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington. Aristus May 2019 #30

Starship Troopers, but I'm not allowed to talk about it. hunter May 2019 #25

What a God awful movie. rsdsharp May 2019 #26

I have no military experience PJMcK May 2019 #27

The first room I walked into at Ft. Knox was the room they went into in Stripes. "Catch-22" underpants May 2019 #28

This message was self-deleted by its author Adsos Letter May 2019 #29

Buffalo Soldiers (2001) Brother Buzz May 2019 #32

Adrian Cronauer (the real one) was a personal friend of mine DFW May 2019 #33

I agree with him. Hollywood often gets it wrong at least when it comes to Iraq JonLP24 May 2019 #35

I don't think most producers or directors even have realistic depictions in mind DFW May 2019 #36

Skip all of them JonLP24 May 2019 #34