Full Metal Jacket

[Captain Kirk]

[quote=Mongoose;782662]

Mongoose,

That place is gone now. It was so dark and depressing there. Ii hated that place![/It couldn't because your guts was laying out for everyone to see, could it?

You are not supposed to give away trade secrets Mongoose!

[raymond w mason]

i love you brother

[raymond w mason]

im sorry i dont know how to work this system yet , my words were for fist fu 68. his words were touching.

[dogfacenamvet]

I've never watched any Vietnam movie that I felt comfortable with; such movies are made by folks who were not there, and only guessing...


As for shrinks, you'd be better off all the way around to just use that money on some good Scotch. :-)

[walkingdead 9th]

A lot of us did some crazy things while we were there.i sang whistled whatever.i even flew my tennessee stae flag in the open.in khe sahn the rockpile and all the way down to hai van pass.went thru hue once.every one saw something different.hollywood is hollywood.what ever it takes to sell they do it.so to all my brothers in the corp[ it dont mean nothing]

[SgtPetty]

It's just a Movie Killer's! Not a documentary! I loved the boot camp part!

[advanced]

About 6-7 years ago a bunch of us Nam vets escorted the moving wall from Dyersburg to Jackson up in Tennessee. When we got to the VFW in Jackson I met a guy that I knew from the Nam that was also in the 1/5 with me.

We talked for hours about that ****hole Hue and when I was leaving to head back toward Memphis he told me he had something for me. He gave me a bottle of "Hue City" beer. I have it to this day as a remembrance. I'll never open it and drink it as it most likely tastes like **** like everything else in that damn place.

[Sergeant M]

As for shrinks, you'd be better off all the way around to just use that money on some good Scotch. :-)

Amen to good Scotch!

As for the movie, I wasn't even alive for that generation and don't know a whole lot about what went down over there. I thought the movie was entertaining, but I don't hold anything that Hollywood produces as an accurate account of war. No one thinks that Saving Private Ryan was a realistic view on WWII except the nai've. The Hurt Locker is supposedly the most accurate depiction of the War in Iraq... HAHAHAHAHA. Yeah, we all go back to our cans and get ****faced before running around disarming bombs without PPE because we are all just "badass".

I think these movies are fine as long as people realize that they are for entertainment purposes only.

[cyberghostx13]

Well I liked the boot-camp part, but Hue, well I never did city fighting in Vietnam, so what do I know. With F/2/26 3rd MarDiv. From 5/68 thru 12/68, just missed Khe Sahn, but served my tour with the ones who were there. I fired my first M-16 at the Rockpile sighting it in. Never even had an M-16 in hand before, as I trained with M-14. I loved the M-16 and mine never jammed. Mostly in the jungle and the hills till we went afloat in September 1968. CH-34s on and off LPH 5(USS Princeton) and then LPH 8(USS Okinawa). This is when we were mostly doing ops south of DaNang around Hoi An and An Hoa. Fighting in Arizona Territory and Dodge City sure was no city-fightin. I wasn't there at Hue, but my take was it was like WWII in France or Italy. Personally, if I have to fight I'd rather run around the jungle.