I tend to agree with mariomike about both The Last Detail ("I am the motherf****ng shore patrol, motherf***er! I am the motherf***ing shore patrol! Give this man a beer") and Heaven Knows Mr. Allison. Which brings to mind servicemen and Clerics in:
Sand Pebbles: ...
I suppose soldiers spending their back-pay buying subscriptions to the Toronto Star would be a much less controversial story. Who is making an issue of this anyway, the paper's marketing and circulation department?
Russian Subs? Time to re-screen appropriate Cold War movie classics :
The Bedord Incident:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058962/
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060921/
Russian paras to drop on the North Pole?
Ice Station Zebra...
What I find instructive is that the re-engineering the US socio-economic system occured over a period that spanned the 3 decades that started and culminated with a Roosevelt presidency. TR was I believe the first 'trust-buster' and FDR brought in the New Deal. Thus, it was a...
That could be a tough one. There may be a prohibition against the use of publicly funded economic development programs to support the private production and distribution of "weapons of mass destruction".
I'll wager that the awarding of the Taliban equivalent of the VC to the gunner who, "with disregard for his own personal safety, did singlehandledly destroy an infidel death machine loaded with the running dog lackeys of Satanic dhimmis..." will happen sooner Tony.
Ironically Multiculturism balkanizes this great land by encouraging ethno-centric distinctions rather than building the unity that is supposedly it's theoretical purpose for diversity breeds the perpetuation of historic stereotypes and contempt. Too many hyphenated-Canadians and not enough...
Indeed he was "being witty". And I appreciated tbe witicism which is probably why I still get a chuckle from it 35 years latter. As if a Bolsheviks ever had the right to cast a ballot that indicted anything but "Da". No disrespect of Instructors, reg or res, intended on my part.
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