This movie belongs in the toilet!

haahahaha, your post was spot on!! I saw this movie not too long ago and I could barely sit through it all myself. Clint Eastwood must be a heavy smoker because it did sound like he had throat cancer or some kinda throat problem. Overall it was a horrible movie and a waste of time..

I went through training on how to shoot from the hip. The M-16 is not a very accurate weapon, but it can spit out rounds like nobody's business. I remember walking through a field and having targets pop up. We were taught to fire quickly, not accurately. Later, when I was walking through a field and real guys popped up, I shot back with that same technique. I don't recall anybody laughing.

When I was taught how to fire from a foxhole, I was taught to "lay down a field of fire." If I shot where I was supposed to shoot, and if everybody else did their job, it would be darn near impossible for the enemy to advance. We sprayed bullets.

I was initially taught to fire my weapon as a civilian thought it should be fired. Take a breath, release it slowly, squeeze the trigger. We never used that technique anywhere but on the rifle range when we were qualifying. In real life, the most important technique that you needed was the ability to swap magazines quickly.

In my day, the M-16s had two settings: single shot and full rock and roll. So another technique that was needed was the ability to fire at someone without draining a full mag on one target. Nowadays, they have the scared sh+tless setting so that you don't waste your ammo on one target. I could have used that setting.

In cowboy movies, the old gunfighter goes on and on about how being fast is great but being accurate is better. Not us. We laid down fire fast and furious. You sweep the weapon through the target. If the target is still moving, you reload and begin again.

Started out good but ran into the ground 20 minutes in.


"People scare better when they're dying"
Frank , OATITW