Jarhead

[payola]

Enlisted avionics tech from 94-04. Commissioned 04.

 

[check6]

Yes, great movie. ooo rah!!

 

[Russ]

"I heard it was filmed in Mexico"

I thought I had read that a large portion of it was filmed at Holtville Ca, between Yuma and El Centro. Anyone who has done a WTI out of NYL knows exactly where it is.

 

[T-prop]

Enlisted avionics tech from 94-04. Commissioned 04.

Congrats.

I agree that the movie/book did air a little of the Marine Corps dirty laundry, and there were a few seens from the movie that were "hollywooded" ie. marine gets shot while low-crawling under live M-60 fire, and paintball training with M-16's etc. However, my experience as a grunt (6 years) and working with STA platoons there is no movie that has come this close to portraying life as a junior marine in an active duty infantry unit. There is no other movie that is even in the same grid square. As far as the book-movie translation the producers, writers, directors, and actors did an outstanding job. It was very faithful to the book but not completely; as book-movie translations never will be. I highly recommend the book and the movie to anyone that has or plans on serving in the Marine Corps epecially as a grunt. Grunt life is a very different culture inside of an already unique culture and the book and movie capture that extremely well.

 

[45caldevldog]

WTI! Oh yeah. 29 Palms 93 -94....Yuma 94 -97.