Comments on: Get your Full Metal Jacket on http://checkswithchart.com/2008/07/14/get-your-full-metal-jacket-on/ Bold, but not reckless Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:11:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bullnav http://checkswithchart.com/2008/07/14/get-your-full-metal-jacket-on/#comment-188 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:24:54 +0000 http://fastnav.wordpress.com/?p=120#comment-188 I do have HBO (10 channels in fact, via COMCAST) and watched the first episode the other day. The view is one definitely from the trenches, the type of view that Ernie Pyle was famous for.

I need to talk with some Marines to see if the attitudes shown is realistic, however. Several of the characters would fit in perfectly as the insufferable but highly knowledgeable RO on the midwatch. In fact the attitude was definitely one you would see in the Navy, but I am skeptical that it would be typical of RECON Marines.

Richard Lowry has some good insight, too.

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