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Posted: 9/22/2022 11:48:49 PM EDT
[#1]
"Ahh, lotsa plastic. Feels like a BB gun to me. Believe I'm gonna stick with my pistol. "
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Posted: 9/22/2022 11:57:09 PM EDT
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Holy shit. You watched a 20 year old movie??? Definitely make a thread about it!!!
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:02:37 AM EDT
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I get it.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:12:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Holy shit. You watched a 20 year old movie??? Definitely make a thread about it!!! Sam was Awesome  |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:13:09 AM EDT
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I stroke mine every once in awhile when alone sitting in my garage, its nice and feels familiar and comforting.
Good Movie |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:18:35 AM EDT
[#6]
Always hated the burnt dude scene .
Heavy burns scare the shit out of me |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:19:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I stroke mine every once in awhile when alone sitting in my garage, its nice and feels familiar and comforting. Good Movie |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:33:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "Ahh, lotsa plastic. Feels like a BB gun to me. Believe I'm gonna stick with my pistol. " |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:36:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Holy shit. You watched a 20 year old movie??? Definitely make a thread about it!!! Yep, and you posted an edgy response in it, and bumped it back to the top... |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:37:40 AM EDT
[#10]
RIP Joe
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:42:35 AM EDT
[#11]
It's a great movie. Mel did a pretty good job of portraying Hal Moore. There are a lot of great leadership moments in the movie that you can use for LPDs.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:45:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep, and you posted an edgy response in it, and bumped it back to the top...  |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:48:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's a great movie. Mel did a pretty good job of portraying Hal Moore. There are a lot of great leadership moments in the movie that you can use for LPDs. What is an LPD? |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 12:48:26 AM EDT
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Mel Gibson can be odd and he’s had a lot of B-Movies as if late (wondering if he’s trying to be like Bruce Willis and get in as much as he can because his health is bad) but when he makes a solid movie, it’s a fucking solid movie. This is one of those movies.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 1:13:41 AM EDT
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I have my uncles belt, canteen pouches, and one canteen, he was Charlie company, and took a round carrying a wounded soldier at the creek bed, luckily he survived.he told me about it back in 1979, so he wasn't making up a story mimicking the movie, we have letters he wrote about being in the Central highlands, and that they were going into action soon, we also have the news clipping about him, it read, local boy wounded in Vietnam. He's 80 now, not many people I can say that I respect so much.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 2:47:10 AM EDT
[#16]
The garrison parts of the movie were tolerable, but the battle scenes were just cheesy as fuck.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 3:02:04 AM EDT
[#17]
He was there... He saw it before - The Ia Drang in '65 ... Holes here - holes there - Charlie got men into the holes. They cut us to fucking pieces...
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Posted: 9/23/2022 3:11:28 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/23/2022 7:21:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The garrison parts of the movie were tolerable, but the battle scenes were just cheesy as fuck. The instant artillary rounds and air support, and the midwestern terrain could have been better |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 7:27:44 AM EDT
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that's a great movie, just watched it a couple months ago.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 7:44:22 AM EDT
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It has its obvious inaccuracies but I love it.
I would honestly LOVE if someone made a Band of Brothers style miniseries about that ENTIRE battle. Reading the book the movie was based on, it was fucking crazy. And the slaughter that occurred on the march out that wasn't in the movie, deserves representation. Because it certainly wasn't a decisive victory as portrayed in the movie. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 7:48:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I stroke mine every once in awhile when alone sitting in my garage, its nice and feels familiar and comforting. Good Movie Did you have an m16 with you? |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 7:50:12 AM EDT
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I was confused by the "spook"(?) in the command center who, after Colonel Moore's "Broken Arrow" call, said "There's no hiding it now."
Hiding WHAT exactly? That they thought we were going to lose a full bird Colonel and his SgtMaj, in our first major engagement with the NVA? |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 7:56:09 AM EDT
[#24]
I had the chance to meet STGMAJ Plumley at WRAMC about 18 years ago. Great guy. Great to talk to.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 7:59:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Always hated the burnt dude scene . Heavy burns scare the shit out of me I visited panel 3E Thursday to honor those men and say thank you to Jimmy. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:00:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was confused by the "spook"(?) in the command center who, after Colonel Moore's "Broken Arrow" call, said "There's no hiding it now." Hiding WHAT exactly? That they thought we were going to lose a full bird Colonel and his SgtMaj, in our first major engagement with the NVA? I believe that referenced that America is now in direct conflict in NV. This battle was one of the first head to head fights. Talks about this in the movie. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:13:35 AM EDT
[#27]
I met Tony Nadal in a business setting, before the movie. I had no idea who was....one of the guys close to him explained it to me....I still didn't grasp it until the movie came out.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:18:12 AM EDT
[#28]
The movie only covers half of the battle. The book was excellent and I recommend it.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:24:19 AM EDT
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I watched that in theaters on my way back from college in a matinee with 4 other people. Two were teens and when the scene started where the chaplain was notifying the family's started the teens started laughing at the black wife breaking down. The guy a few rows in front was evidently a vet who stood up and went into full DI mode and started chewing them a new asshole complete with knife hands, they got up and left and I went from being sad at the scene to smiling at the reaming they had received.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:25:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The movie only covers half of the battle. The book was excellent and I recommend it. From what I remember in the book the second half was just as bad if not worse. It's been 20 years so it's hard to remember, I really should re-read it. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:29:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The movie only covers half of the battle. The book was excellent and I recommend it. I wish they did not do that cheesy bayonet charge to close it out. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:31:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Did you have an m16 with you? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I stroke mine every once in awhile when alone sitting in my garage, its nice and feels familiar and comforting. Good Movie Did you have an m16 with you? I don't think that was what he was stroking 
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:33:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Always hated the burnt dude scene . Heavy burns scare the shit out of me He died in the hospital. The book is so much better than the movie. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:36:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The instant artillary rounds and air support, and the midwestern terrain could have been better the terrain was accurate check out pics of the actual battle or youtube videos of the location today . . . . the book was better .  The REAL Battle from We Were Soldiers - Ia Drang 65 (1/2) |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:37:52 AM EDT
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Loved this movie to the point of buying it AND buying some props used in it (uniform)
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:38:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had the chance to meet STGMAJ Plumley at WRAMC about 18 years ago. Great guy. Great to talk to. "What are you a fucking weatherman now"  I'm not sure if it was an accurate portrayal but Sam Elliot was great in that movie. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:48:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: the terrain was accurate check out pics of the actual battle or youtube videos of the location today . . . . the book was better .  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i4zLTiwTWAQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The instant artillary rounds and air support, and the midwestern terrain could have been better the terrain was accurate check out pics of the actual battle or youtube videos of the location today . . . . the book was better . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i4zLTiwTWAWhen doing a pre-deployment for training site survey the staff at Ft Hunter-Ligget were talked about how much their landscape looks like the area the Chu Pong Massif and why the film was done there. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:54:57 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The instant artillary rounds and air support, and the midwestern terrain could have been better Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The garrison parts of the movie were tolerable, but the battle scenes were just cheesy as fuck. The instant artillary rounds and air support, and the midwestern terrain could have been better ah yes, the midwestern terrain of California. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:59:18 AM EDT
[#39]
Like others have posted the book is head and shoulders better.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 8:59:53 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/23/2022 9:10:32 AM EDT
[#41]
terrain was accurate
 Vietnam War battlefields: IA DRANG Valley LZ X Ray TODAY |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 9:15:33 AM EDT
[#42]
Not a bad movie but a glaring omission was no FAC aircraft overhead talking to the infantry and directing the strikes................. Also it was sad being reminded of what a futile and disastrous mess that war was. All those men killed for absolutely nothing and as Galloway said they were there only for each other and to look after each other and because they were ordered to go there.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 10:55:42 AM EDT
[#43]
 The REAL Battle from We Were Soldiers - Ia Drang 65 (2/2) - Massacre at LZ Albany |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 11:03:13 AM EDT
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I met Hal Moore and Joe Galloway when I was a cadet at West Point when the book first came out. Moore delivered several leadership seminars to the Corps while I was there. Great man. His name being on one of the renamed woke bases is one of the few things about that I don’t take issue with.
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Posted: 9/23/2022 11:04:36 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The instant artillary rounds and air support, and the midwestern terrain could have been better Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The garrison parts of the movie were tolerable, but the battle scenes were just cheesy as fuck. The instant artillary rounds and air support, and the midwestern terrain could have been better I thought the combat was pretty good with the exception of the bayonet charge at the end. An LZ Albany pt II would be great. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 11:14:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think they at least cut the scenes, even as a kid I assumed time had past. I wouldn't want to wait 5 minutes for artillery to start landing as a viewer or an hour for bombs if it's anything like my experience in Afghanistan. I thought the combat was pretty good with the exception of the bayonet charge at the end. An LZ Albany pt II would be great. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: The garrison parts of the movie were tolerable, but the battle scenes were just cheesy as fuck. The instant artillary rounds and air support, and the midwestern terrain could have been better I thought the combat was pretty good with the exception of the bayonet charge at the end. An LZ Albany pt II would be great. If they guns were laid on priority targets, the rounds should be shot in under 30 seconds. Arty can be qucik as hell, if the redundant checks and clearance of fires procedures were stripped out. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 11:14:54 AM EDT
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Quoted: Had to pull out my M16 clone and stroke it gently The movie is just called "We were soldiers". We get it. You know what the book is called. |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 11:19:31 AM EDT
[#48]
Mention the movie and I'll go to This Scene.
All hail Tower Week   We were soldiers - saying goodbye |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 1:18:01 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The movie is just called "We were soldiers". We get it. You know what the book is called. But do you? Really? I don't think so... |
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Posted: 9/23/2022 6:28:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What is an LPD? Leaders Professional Development |
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