Bad in every way


I was in desert shield/ desert storm. USMC breaching minefields to enter Kuwait. the only things even remotely accurate were the uniforms. Yes that was the style at the time, for those of us that had them. Lot of us were still wearing woodland pattern. Oh, and there was a war there.
This movie is real touchy feely politically correct bit of nonsense that that does a disservice to those who fought, were injured, and killed there. The war itself was, for lack of a better way to put it, "painless" in the numbers on our side killed. We wiped out hundreds and thousands of Iraqis. Because there were no imbedded reporters or anything like that, most people have the images of Schwartzkoff giving "briefings" to reporters and showing gun camera views from attack aircraft. I'm afraid the view from the ground was grisly and everything you'd expect from being in combat. we didn't have e mail, cellphones, or any other way to record the "action." little of what happened in combat there is ever accurately portrayed in movies. So for me, this is a slap in the face to make a movie that is purley fiction in an effort to advance the argument for women serving in combat, especially when the fiction is based on an event that involved real warriors who served and sacrificed and did so proudly and quietly with little or nothing known about the real experience.

For me, two thumbs down

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