Army Veterans React to Classic War Films
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- “What are you the f***in’ weatherman now??” Never was there a better portrayal of a Sergeant Major than the one by Sam Elliot in We Were Soldiers.
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01:32 "We Were Soldiers" 2002, Paramount Pictures
09:19 "The Dirty Dozen" 1967, Warner Bros.
16:52 "The Delta Force" 1986, MGM
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We've done a TON of movies on Vets React, but there are always more. What movie should we react to next?
"A River Runs Through It." All of the hard core father son moments and reactions to murder of Brad Pitt's wife and kids.... What a totally different "Veterans REACT" clip
"Siege of Firebase Gloria" starring Wings Hauser and R. Lee Ermey, so what's not to love. "Danger Close: Battle of Long Tan" which followed a New Zealand battle in Vietnam was great also. Both have the flavor of "We Were Soldiers"
Veterans react to the final shootout scene in “The Veteran”
Gotta do Battle: Las Angeles for another sci-fi react video
Please react to Kelly’s heroes!!!
And Guy from Dirty Dozen and Delta Force is George Kennedy, enlisted in the United States Army during World War II in 1943. He served 16 years, reaching the rank of captain. Kennedy served in the infantry under George S. Patton, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and earned two Bronze Stars. He re-enlisted after the war and was discharged in the late 1950s due to a back injury.
a lot of the old actors were fucking boss. if they didn't serve, then they did a lot of hard living. "Bronson grew up during the Great Depression, and worked in a coal mine until he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1943 during World War II."
@@Janzer_ Bronson was B29 rear gunner
@@VicFromFallout often the first point of attack for Bf-109 pilots.
Lee Marvin's gravestone just lists his name, birth and death dates and PFC United States Marine Corps, WWII. He was a major star, but that was what he wanted history to know about him.
And won an Academy Award for Best Supporting actor. Was it Cool Hand Luke or Naked Gun? Someone help me out.
Ernest Borgnine spent 10 years in the US Navy, Charles Bronson was a gunner on B-29s, George Kennedy was a captain in the US Army, Robert Ryan was a drill sergeant, Telly Savalas served in the US Army, Clint Walker was in the merchant marine, Robert Webber in the USMC... that movie is full of veterans.
Merchant marines are not veterans. They aren't even part of the military lol
@@skeeterclovis7163 I suggest you read a little bit about what it was like to serve in the Atlantic convoys during World War 2 on unarmed, civilian, slow, defenseless, ships in terrible weather being hunted by German submarines. About 36.000 merchant mariners lost their lives doing their part saving the world. A quick quote from wikipedia: Although the Merchant Marine suffered a per capita casualty rate greater than those of the U.S. Armed Forces, merchant mariners who served in World War II were denied such veterans recognition until 1987 when a federal court ordered it.
@@superkjell 36,000 lol I think your numbers are probably way off as well.
@@skeeterclovis7163 36.000 allied civilian sailors lost their lives during the battle of the Atlantic. It is a number you will find in encyclopedias. Of those about 30.000 were British, 1600 Canadian and 3700 Norwegian.
Here's what the National WW2 Museum in New Orleans has on their site: There were 243,000 mariners that served in the war. And 9,521 perished while serving-a higher proportion of those killed than any other branch of the US military. The sacrifices made by these sailors during the war is sadly unknown by too many.
Here is another passage from the Smithsonian magazine: Most of the mariners who sailed against the U-boats are gone now. The few thousand who remain have come to regard Memorial Day as a celebration that has never fully included them. But it’s still not too late to remember, belatedly, how much we owe them.
@@skeeterclovis7163 Oh. And about the Merchant Marines not being military: The Merchant Marine primarily transports cargo and passengers during peacetime; in times of war, the Merchant Marine can be an auxiliary to the United States Navy, and can be called upon to deliver military personnel and materiel for the military.
The Sd. Kfz. 7 was the primary mover of Germany’s famed 88 mm cannon. So yes it was real.
The "FAMO"
@@chuck.reichert83 FAMO if I remember right was an abbreviation of the manufacturer Fahrzeug Motoren-Werke or something to that effect.
Colloquially known as a “half-track”
@@sinister47 the "FAMO" as it was nicknamed was a rather large halftrack
It was actually the "9" not the 7
21:45 Small correction regarding the motorcycle in Delta Force. The motorcycle does not have missiles or mortars or even machineguns, it's a stock 650 Suzuki. Because Chuck Norris is riding it, the bike just organically gains the ability to shoot bullets and launch explosives. All vehicles gain this ability when being ridden by Chuck Norris.
Just an FYI - the French Foreign Legion doesn't wear maroon berets, they wear green berets. French Paratroopers wear the red beret (Legionnaire paratroopers still wear green beret but have the St. Micheal crest like the French Airborne). However the Legionnaires will wear the white kepi (Kepi blanc ) so it could just be bad military consultants... Legionnaire NCO's (sous officers) and officers don't wear the white kepi, they will wear the blue kepi with red.
I watch The Dirty Dozen couple weeks ago, it's a great Sunday Afternoon movie.
In the Dirty Dozen before Jim Brown throws the grenades into the ventilation ports for the bunker they dump satchel's of pined grenades it's in each ventilation port, then they take 5 gallon Jerry cans filled with fuel and pourt them down each ventilation port. You can pick this up in the scene before Jim Brown drops the final grenades as he runs.
SgtMaj Plumley was in a more exclusive club than the MOH. Three CIB’s.
I have to admit, never seen Delta Force Movie, but the music is going to end up on my Gym playlist.
That was cool. Please review Invasion USA with Chuck Norris. Have Mat Best and Tim Kennedy review it.
That is a real thing at 15:47 it was a prime mover used by the Germans to tow the 88
that was called a half track and it was a real thing
,most of the actors were WW 2 and Korea vets
You really gave my boy Dylan Walsh "That guy" oh no the poor man.
Delta will not tell you that they are Delta, that's what I heard.
Let’s wear camo then top it off with a white lid! Brilliant!
17:41
That’s a Polish Vis 35 not an M1911.
Lee Marvin was the real deal...A true mans, man.....Was also a known big gun collector...
Marvin was an animal. Semper Fi.
It's a MORTARCYCLE. Come on! :P
The Eiffel Tower super killed me 🤣🤣🤣
You guys didn’t do yourselves any favors by not watching the entire Dirty Dozen movie. It made you make a lot of bad assumptions.
Dirty Dozen, the OG Suicide Squad
Grenades didnt cause the big explosions, they poured a bunch of gasoline down the air vents..
In dirty dozen they talk about the grenade making huge fire balls but they totally skipped the part were the dumped Jerry cans of gasoline down the vents and dozens of hand grenades
Yeah I noticed that too. They were kind of shitting on the grenades, but watching the movie you know how much gasoline they poured down those drains.
I got the impression that they only saw clips and didn't watch the whole movie. Otherwise why the need to explain that George Kennedy was an observer.
Don't forget the depot under the chateau as well. Once the fuse was lit, that magazine was bound to go sky high.
@@wadewilson8011 These reaction videos are more a way for them to flex their knowledge and us normies don't know how it "really" is...
You guys didn’t do yourselves any favors by not watching the entire movie of Dirty Dozen. It made you make erroneous assumptions.
Lee Marvin was a Marine sniper in WWII, wounded in the battle of Saipan.
Charles Bronson flew 25 bombing missions over Japan as a gunner.
Ernest Borgnine served 10 years in the Navy before and during WWII.
George Kennedy served 16 years in the Army including under Patton at the Battle of the Bulge.
Robert Ryan was a Marine DI during WWII.
Telly Savalas was in the Army in WWII, Robert Webber was at Okinawa and Guam as a Marine.
Most actors of the 1950s-1980s were in the military during WWII.
James Stewart was an AF Brigadier General, flew combat over Germany, earned the DFC, Air Medal with 3 clusters.
Scout sniper section in WWII wasn't like what snipers were later
@@craigplatel813 Have you ever read about the battle of Saipan?
@@Absaalookemensch My friend Eugene Iconetti was there with the Marines. He's 98 going on 99 now
In Dirty Dozen was 1938 12-ton German half-track Sd.Kfz. 8
Thank you for this LOL
We Were Soldiers is my absolute favourite movie to watch. Hal Moore is a really fascinating person to understand. Also, Dirty Dozen is an all time classic
JT and Tyler Merritt, also broke down We Were Soldiers at the 7:35 mark: ruclips.net/video/C5-Nnn4u6F0/видео.html
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@@emmanuelawosusi2365 And ask them if you can start a chainsaw by just the cord while you're riding a bike like Howie Long!
Read Hal Moore's book on leadership.
Remember watching We were soldiers with my dad, a Vietnam veteran, and he said that Sam Elliot was the most accurate depiction of a SgtMaj
Sam’s one of the best
100% he lived in Columbus Ga until his death. My dad knew him, I would see the SgtMaj all the time as kid. Sam escorted his daughter at his memorial service they held for him at the National infantry museum. My dad talked to Sam to tell him how great a job he did playing him. Sam told my pop that he almost didn’t take the role because he had never played a service member and was afraid he might not do a good job. But the SgtMaj was admit that Sam played him. So Sam would come down and spend time at his house to learn his mannerisms. And completely nailed it
Elliott enlisted in the military and served with the California National Guard. There he learned about the meaning of hard work and leadership. He was a proud member of the California Air National Guard's 163rd Airlift Wing out of the Channel Islands.
Talking about the pilots...I served as a UH60 door gunner in 9/101 AVN for 6 months (early 90s). Had a crusty old CW4 from the Vietnam era flying one day. I started freaking out when I was hearing thumping noises. I thought for sure our transmission was hosed or something and we were going to die. I hit my crew chief and said "WTF is that noise?!?!?" He got the biggest grin you can imagine and replied "trees". Those old dudes were the shit.
When I was working in pre-hospital medicine, we had a couple of those guys hanging around for nine lines, and good grief those dudes are something else.
I was acting medic in the back of huey during an exercise in '85 when we did a river run so close to the water that we nearly cut a John boat in half, along with its owner. Then we climbed and practiced autorotation. Started wearing brown boxers when I flew with the Vietnam veteran pilot.
@@xraydeadgirl Dang, dude. That's some hardcore stuff.
For the younger crowd, George Kennedy served in the infantry under George S. Patton, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and earned two Bronze Stars. He was a badass!
Alright Black Rifle Coffee folk. Reviewing movies is one thing, but mocking out Jim Brown in the Dirty Dozen is another. If Brown had Wooten and Hickerson pulling in front of him around the end on a sweep, not only would he have made it out of there, but he would have run all the way to Berlin and killed Hitler.
Best comment ever
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The Dirty Dozen is one those films that are so good.😎 Hollywood better not remake it ever.😡
CLASSIC!!! They remake everything else. Let's keep our fingers crossed, they leave it alone.
I’d actually be totally ok with it if, and only if, Quintin Tarantino made it. I mean inglorious basterds was an incredible movie.
But in a way they did it was The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission a 1985 made-for-TV
I'm shocked no one has tried. They made a few TV movies and a short-lived TV series in the eighties, so it's not like it's untouchable.
@@C4RL1NN Tarantino is overrated.
I cannot begin to describe my disappointment that he did not say "mortar-cycle". But instead said "mortar motorcycle". Such a missed opportunity.
"is he driving a mortar motorcycle?" f-ing classic
Not everyone "enjoys" stupid puns.
@@wadewilson8011 username is a Deadpool reference but you don't like puns. Lmao. Gtfo 🤣 🤣 🤣
One thing a lot of people don’t know is a lot of the French foreign Legion men that fought in French Indochina (Vietnam). Were former Waffen SS troops and they were very effective. There’s even a book about them called Devils Guard.
Of course SS guys were effective. They were elite troops that were trained to be a bit more flexible and individualistic than your standard soldier. They used that effectively in WWII, and in Vietnam I guarantee they utilized that training/mindset to great effect.
@@Aqueox The French Waffen SS division was known as the SS Charlemagne, well renowned for how effective in combat they were.
@@justaruztyspoon668 Yup. Crazy thing is that (if memory serves me) what was left of SS Charlemagne basically went down fighting in 1945 in Berlin.
Says a lot about those men, if you think about it. You've got French men willing to give their lives for a beyond defeated Germany. Not only that, but they chose to fight and die in the heart of Germany.
With ALL the history between France and Germany, and a world war just over 20 years before, those guys set it all aside to fight for something they believed in.
Would make a great movie at the very least.
@@Aqueox They're traitors who joined the enemy war-crimes unit. They can die fighting or get guillotined later.
They were dead men walking due to their treason.
@@Aqueox Well, when your choices are either keep fighting and die, or surrender and be lined up against a wall and shot for treason? You’d have to be a special kind of special to not want to go down fighting.
The Dirty Dozen was based on the filthy thirteen that jumped into Normandy, june 6th 1944. not to be confused with what most know as Easy company 506th PIR... but the misfits of the 101st in WWII who were pretty rough and tough, and 12 out of 13 dawned the mohawk and warpaint into the normandy jump. mostly inspired, and followed from Sgt. Jake McNiece. who was one bad mother....well you get the point. We did a Memorial photoshoot for these guys a few years back. As they are not super well known. i highly suggest people looking into and reading about the Filthy Thirteen, especially if you ever likes or enjoyed the movie the dirty dozen.
Only thing about "We Were Soldiers" that seems a shame to me is the guy who was on the cover of the book it was from, was not even mentioned in the movie.
That particular soldier, Rick Rescorla, was last seen on the 10th floor of WTC south tower heading back up stairs and to try and evacuate more of his coworkers on 9/11
Yea, he was mixed in with a couple other people to make one character so people could follow better.
He's mentioned in the book which is one of the best books I've read
Yep..the guy that preached safety and told them after the first attack it’d happen again…man was a hero in every sense…ran straight to his death to help others
It's interesting to me because there's a lot of stuff that wasn't in the movie, but specifically something that hits home to me was that my grandfather was Hal Moore's XO, and never appeared in the movie, because when Hal Moore was writing the book, he approached my grandfather and he said that he didn't want to relive that battle / war. He's mentioned in the book, but not in the movie. They replaced him with a fictitious character. Nothing really changes, and I can't say that I blame him for it, but it would be cool to see him portrayed in a big time movie. Maj Herman L Wirth landed at LZ Falcon and never saw what happened at X-Ray, but I still think it would have been cool to see him in a movie. Side note, when Hal Moore was promoted to Colonel, the Army wanted to bring in somebody else to head the battalion, and Moore said that it's gotta be Herm, Army didn't like (or necessarily want) it, but they approved and he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. The command structure that Moore and Wirth used was called a dissociative command structure (not really sure if that was developed by them or simply adapted for the purpose), and that was reviewed and sent to West Pointe to be taught. Until at least the early 2000's it was taught, as my grandmothers CSO knew that he was going to a Lt. Col. Wirth, but didn't put the information together until he was at the house and was talking with my grandmother and mom. Pretty cool (in my opinion) little bit of trivia that directly relates to that movie, book, and battle.
Charles Bronson was 46 years old, when he filmed The Dirty Dozen. He was a tail gunner on a B-29, in the Pacific during WWII.
That's funny because Clark Gable was a tail gunner in a B-17 in Europe. Hitler's favorite actor, he was to be brought before the fuhrer if captured. I wonder what Gable would have said.
@@johnclawedfrankly my fuhrer I don't give a damn! LoL
The halftrack in the last scene of the dirty dozen was a real thing. It was a prime mover for heavy artillery the Germans used.
MOVIE: "Kelly's Heroes" - Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland, etc. You know, a bunch of legends.
You cannot get "modern soldiers" to say how real ww2 and vietnam war movies are...
Thats like asking a vegan what cut of steak do they like best 🤦🏻♂️
“This is what we call a classic.” Finally giving The Dirty Dozen some recognition, thanks gentlemen!
We Were Soldiers is my favorite modern war movie, hands down (Band of Brother is a mini series, but that's #1 overall). Don't give a damn if Mel Gibson is a little out of his gourd, he makes great movies.
You should do “The Devil’s Brigade”.
The Broken Arrow scenes in We Were Soldiers always chokes me up. Not only for the obvious love of my fellow countrymen, but also for the sheer terror of being the one catching that shit storm. They did a really good job humanizing the NVA. I cannot begin to imagine what it must have felt like to have the sky rain fire and steel on you like that.
The captain of the airliner was also Ivan on Magnum PI. As in “Hey Ivan, did you see the sunrise?”
I was on a series of recons when I was in Somalia. When we came in the next morning after pickup we landed on the very edge of the airfield which was on the top of the biggest hill in the area. the sun was just starting to come up over the horizon and as we start to walk away from the Blackhawk we were walking into what seemed like that biggest sun ever seen and to a man we started to sing the Ballad Of The Green Berets. The funny part was none of us were SF but it reminded us for the end of the movie. Just a memory.
I could listen to Jericho talk all day. Can we get him, Jack Carr, Kyle Lamb and Matt Best to do a Veterans round table
The big vehicle that crushed the Kubel wagon after ramming into the wall was an Sd. Kfz. 8 Daimler Benz 12 tons utility manufactured in 1937, Germany. It was a German vehicle.
Chuck Norris does not do push ups, he pushes the world down.
😂😂😂😂
The boogie man checks under his bed for chuck Norris at night
My basic was at FT Benning and my 1st duty station was FT Hood with 1st CAV. Deployed to Iraq with them twice, 06-08 and 09-10
there needs to be a movie about "the outpost of Freedom". book written by the first medal of honor in Vietnam. received by a green beret. its eerie how similar it is to the movie/account of "the outpost" that Jericho worked on.
US Army did use halftracks in WWII, specifically the M3. Their advantage was that they had the traction of tracked vehicles, while maintaining the ease of steering of wheeled vehicles. If you could drive a truck, you could pretty much drive a half track.
George Kennedy in the dirty dozen is also Captain Ed Hocken from the Naked Gun movies and Police Squad tv show
He was also the Blue Knight (cop tv series in the 70s with awesome knight stick fancy work.) Also the Airport Maintenance chief in the Airport movies.
@@iBusinessLogic ya George was everywhere back in the 60s70s and 80s. loved that dude . he was funny , i am only old enough to rememeber the stuff from the late 80s. but watching his older movies. great actor
I may be wrong as I am British, but is that actually a uniform code fail in The Delta Force? I Presume they are referring to the orientation of the stars and stripes, but imagine that film came out before army regulation 670-1 which was 2003?
The orientation of the flag on the shoulder patchs is correct for the time period represented, ie with the field of stars on the upper right corner of the flag as the flag faces you (yhe upper left corner as you look at it And they were worn in that fashion for many years. Look at the pictures of the Airborne troops on D-day.
EDIT (the upper left corner as you look at it)
I commented similar. That part of the uniform regs came in way after this movie
Best line ever "If we don't get outta here, we're all gonna be speaking it!"
Re: The Dirty Dozen: Lee Marvin also taped his magazines together in "Prime Cut" a few years later, where he played a mafia enforcer who rescues young girls being sold into slavery by a rival gang. Not as good a movie but you should see it.
That Hal Moore look him up! He came up with the Huey Calvary. Show him respect
That was Tim Abell in the Broken Arrow Scene who was a C-2/75 RGR vet from the 70’s. 3 great movies choices too 👏🏻👏🏻
Not for not but Charles Bronson was 46 when filming dirty dozen. However when you start working in the coal mines at the age of 16 then only leave the mines because you are drafted into ww2, you age a little harder.
When I joined in 1979, I don't think any of our Drill Sergeants were 24 or 25 years old. They were all Vietnam veterans, though. I think a lot of them were finishing out their time, waiting to retire.
The Petty Officer in charge of my part of the barracks at Great Lakes in 2002, Served on the Battleship Missouri during the Gulf War. None of those dudes were young. 😆
Yeah. the senior drill sergeant for my basic platoon in '88 was a Vietnam vet.
Sam Elliot played The Sargent Major perfectly. I from Columbus Ga my father knew him from the army and I would see him a lot as a kid. He should’ve got a award for that performance.
you guys ever gonna do saving private ryan and the thin red line?
It appears to be about that time.
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"Good Morning, Sgt major 😄"
"How the ___🤬_____ kind of day do you know this is?"
How do you feel now Skippy? 😲
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They dumped gas in first before the gernades were thrown down by James Brown. Oh, yes there were half tracks like that in use by Germany in WWII.
Hi love the vids
How about some POW movies like The Great Escape, Harts War, Stalag 17, Hanoi Hilton.
Von Ryans Express, Empire of the Sun, Bridge Over the River Kwai
Would love to see some firefighter vets reacting to firefighting movies
If they make that happen, one of the movies should be "Red Skies Over Montana." It is a movie about smoke jumpers fighting the 1949 Mann Gulch fire.
The German Halftrack in The Dirty Dozen was a Sd.Kfz.8 DB8. IT'S A REAL THING!
So Bo Svenson, the actor who played the pilot in THE DELTA FORCE and Roy the bar owner in HEARTBREAK RIDGE, sadly did not also star in THE DIRTY DOZEN...however he DID appear in THE DIRTY DOZEN: THE DEADLY MISSION, the second of three made-for-TV sequels to the original film in the 1980s. The first movie actually brought Lee Marvin back, 18 years after the first film but taking place only 3 months later, because why not. Just for good measure there was also a short-lived DIRTY DOZEN TV series on the brand new Fox network which last 1 season.
Bronson was in a bomber crew that flew over Europe in WW2. He probably did see some stuff.
Actually Japan... B-29 door gunner
The Dirty Dozen was an actor's Woodstock of talent. It's my favorite movie. What made SGM Plumley such a dude in real life is that he was his own coffee bitch. 😉🤣
I wasn't on The Varsity during OIF, but it was my job to help them win working in my capacity. Those are my dudes. Even if I was a coffee bitch. 🤣😉
BRCC, I'm a club member. When are you going to release some 42A Combat Gear? We know coffee better than anyone.
A-10 by day and AC-130 by night will save your life.
I had to know Charles Bronson was 46 when he made dirty dozen that man was born looking 40 yrs old Jesus Christ he always looked like a grown ass man
The half track you were questioning was real wouldn't have been something we used, it would've been the nazis. The priest from delta force is the observer from dirty dozen
When Broken Arrow was put into action as the result of Pearl Harbor, it has only been used 3 times in history.
The term is used to indicate the imminent total destruction of a US force, calling all available assets for support.
The first time was on held American territory islands to the north, when japan was clearing islands. Back then, the US was not ready, but a large force did arrive days later.
The second was vietnam
The third was in 2017 in the Tongo Tongo incident. The ambush and overrun by ISIS forces in Niger. Though, the secretary of state for the Trump admin failed to communicate a QRF, instead having to call upon NATO allies that arrived a bit too late. And in very very small numbers.
Though, Broken Arrow was translated to the French that sortied 15 aircraft that were in range. And worked with Niger QRF after the US Spec ops had been extracted.
A total of some 153 troops were deployed for assistance and combat Isis that day.
It was a clusterfuck.
French foreign legion scene was all wrong. Legion officers wear black Kepi's (the hat). Soldiers wear the white kepi but at the time wore green berets and kepi's are parade uniform. Also the battle was no were close to representing the battle of Dien bien phu. Little rant from a master corporal, 2 REI, 2003 to 2012
They poured 50 gallons of gas into the air vents before tossing a shit load of grenades in and then Jim brown did his 100 meter sprint dropping a frag into each air vent along the way. So when the frag went off it set of some of the other frags and in turn ignited the vapors from the gas and then the gas.
Reviewed The delta force. Now got do delta farce
All war movies with Telly Savalas (including "Escape To Athena") are blockbusters forever.
The halftrack in "The Dirty Dozen" was an 18ton halftrack used for tank recovery and heavy towing duties Sdkfz 9 FAMO.
Have yall done Heartbreak Ridge? if not, you should.
Oh we have. Check it out: ruclips.net/video/lm6ML_R3ezI/видео.html
I was just listening to a podcast about Delta Force. They mentioned that Charlie Beckwith walked off the movie in disgust, because originally they had pitched it to him as a "serious" historical film. The producer, who became legendary for making some of the trashiest movies of the 80's, then told him he was going to make an authentic and respectful account of Operation Eagle Claw, only this time the Americans would win.
German HalfTrack is a real thing just like the US Army in WW2 had them also, troop transport and towed artillery
I'm a Vietnam vet, army aviation haven't been able to get past the LZ scene where the Huey crashed. Just can't handle it........
I had two uncle's in Vietnam SFC Gerald Silas was sent in first to set up and call back to report what we need to get started . And Donnie Silas was a door Gunner on the helicopter on search and destroy mission. I got in trouble for writing a report paper in school on Vietnam because Donnie didn't tell me what his company did some of it was still classified by the Pentagon
Correct me if I'm wrong but IIRC the French Foreign Legion wore Tropical Lizard camo in Indochina. The father of the awesome Tiger Stripes.
No they wore frog skin camo like the marines work in wwii
The Green Beret guys had nothing but praise for We Were Soldiers. Don’t try to be cool
The soldier Sam Elliott says about the weather man to was Ryan Hurst from "sons of anarchy " as "opie".
I've never seen Sam Elliot without a mustache. I'm going to have to go back and watch that movie! Lol
Come on dudes. At that point, the grenades were detonating a fuel-air mixture in the bunker. You gotta watch the whole thing.
When do we get to see final countdown and the controversies surrounding the making of that and how it affected the production of Top Gun 🤷
That truck in the Dirty Dozen was a Sd Kfz. 7 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sd.Kfz._7
I’ve been waiting forever to see them watch “The Delta Force”
You're welcome.
The truck is a German Half Track. The SdKfz 251 model.
The bikes and buggies were made in Israel for the film. Supposedly the US military were looking into these bikes after the film came out.
Movie was filmed in Israel and I worked as security on it
Chuck Bronson was like 46 in this movie. For real. He was born in 1921 oh and the army bought (not sure if they used) a bunch of Kawasaki 650s.
15:50 yes that is but a lot smaller and 1943 to 1944 they were made they did make 2 the old one and that on is a newer version
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