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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Sun May 12, 2019, 06:34 PM May 2019

What movie most closely resembled your own military experience? [View all]

1. Stripes

2. Full Metal Jacket

3. No Time For Sergeants

4. Private Benjamin

5. Platoon

6. Best Defense

7. McHale's Navy

8. Good Morning, Vietnam

9. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

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	Full Metal Jacket
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	No Time For Sergeants
	1 (13%)
	Private Benjamin
	0 (0%)
	Platoon
	0 (0%)
	Best Defense
	0 (0%)
	McHale's Navy
	0 (0%)
	Good Morning, Vietnam
	2 (25%)
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
	0 (0%)
	Other.
	5 (63%)
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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