Am I watching a movie or soft-core gay porn?

You left out the sergeant needing to see his boys shirtless every day.

... it was all a bit too much for me to take!

It's an 80s peacetime military movie, so it's debateable. Remember the volleyball scene in top gun?

Call Me By Your Name is comparatively heterosexual compared to this, this is kind of a strange movie.

wrong this movie is manly! it show fighting military unit in details: how they train and how they prepares for war. it show cadence, tactic and at end great battle scene. this film is clint eastwood classics. a change from his usual police movie dreary.

anyone who appreciate military will appreciates this movie.

only downsides is mario van pebbles tend to overract in film but clint eastwood very good performances - oscar calibrate