The friendly jumping in the hole and slugging water was Chuck Norris, really "Missing in Action" that time.

@@alexanderwalle3568 Looks like he might be the same guy that O'Neil was hiding under.

If not for that deer licking Taylor's nuts so woke him up--is why he checked there first--Barnes might have made it to a medic.

After Taylor got "Bubble-butt" Gardner killed over ants, he learned to take the safety off his Claymores.

@@alexanderwalle3568 Remove safety and squeeze the clacker three times.

You would have a field day in the comment section on my Apocalypse Now and my short movie contact front both are on the end screen of this video

I just happened back across "Platoon deleted scenes" on my phone--any one of them would have ruined the movie--they're hard to watch--stay away because they make no sense and contribute nothing to film; they have a scene on KZfaq in a foreign language where Barnes kills that yapping bitch that drove him too far--even the "Goddamn right he does" RTO is speaking gibberish in that video (half of C 1/8 on Geiger were precisely like the "Goddamn right he does" guy--those were the days when I knew and encountered real people--but when we moved to Mainside Lejeune, after coming back from the Med, real people like that became less and less).

Being in Living Colour is also beautiful.

@@alexanderwalle3568 J Lo, is that you?

Should have been nominated for a bronze star in the previous day's battle for advancing forward and saving Lerner and at least a purple heart for his wounds in battle in this one.

When Taylor wrote to King that he'd killed Barnes, neither King or his girl were able to read the letter, because, as King once mentioned, both were illiterate.

Interestingly in the movie, it's mechanized forces that come to reinforce.

@@Valorius Both did, at least according to my uncle. His unit was supposed to arrive at Burt around 3AM to help with the battle but at the last minute they were called off and didn't arrive til around 6-7 AM instead.

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@@TheRodFarva passing of lines at dark in the jungle is extremely hazardous. That is almost certainly why they were called off until the dawn.

That was Dale Dye - also a Combat Veteran - but a Marine. He made a career advising on Military Movies - as did Lee Ermey. .

Glad you enjoyed it!

I was like Taylor was I was in; I ran-up and wasted an entire squad wearing MILES gear.

@@alexanderwalle3568 Live fire ammunition is the difference between getting an AAM and a Silver Star.

@nomorerainbows very true

I absolutely hated junior. One of the most selfish disrespectful soliders in the squad. Hitting his head and knocking him out then the bayonet scene. Didnt feel a bit of pity for him.

If you look closely right before bunny gets killed he has his shotgun but then as he gets shot he has an m16. It always amazed me they let that slip through the cracks. Semper Fi Marine!

I had a rifle do exactly that on the range one year; I was no Annie Oakley but told the armory something was wrong with the weapon--I wasn't all that, that much I'd always known, but I was also never that bad at hitting a stationary target--it's not rocket science. They gave me another rifle (telling me something about the first one that they'd found was off--it was wound "too tight" somehow--I no longer remember). I did much better with the replacement--I didn't miss all the time. I've always wondered how many pizza-boxes were too ignorant to have never known it wasn't them, it was the rifle.

3/2 here 99- 19

@tbone6203 thanks for your service. -An old grunt

Some gave all. I gave less.

I read that same tunnel rats book too.

@@Valorius 'That's cool! It was an interesting contrast to the traditional open firefights. In the tunnel you were protected from the rear. And you had a bit more personal control over your fate...somewhat. That is.. along with the spiders, snakes, rats, booby traps and claustrophobia. I think that last one would have done me in. I wouldn't have made a very good coal miner.. or tunnel rat! I need blue sky overhead. 😀

@nbmooselovers I was in the Infantry but you will never catch me as a tunnel rat LOL

@@Valorius I hear ya! 'Thank You' for the reply's. Its been great chatting with ya! Stay healthy! 👍

brother hope to see you in my comment section again

When in doubt: Attack. When facing overwhelming odds: Attack When facing certain defeat: Attack

That's because you are a red blooded American.

In real life, the entire platoon would have opened-up on the guy coming-up the hill and probably called an airstrike on him, too.

I still listen to theaters when it came out as well, and I was in basic training within a few months after seeing it

He kinda did. Born on the fourth of July is an amazing movie. It shows what a great actor Tom cruise is if given the write material and motivation!

O'Brien scary azz can be the platoon sergeant in part two

The VC couldn't believe they were getting beat by a guy named "Francis."

It's been a while since anyone has made one.

@@Valorius all is quite on the western front on Netflix was pretty good

@@Jitsover50 I liked the original and 1970s remakes, but the new one on netflix really had almost nothing at all to do with the plot of the original movie. Since I had saw both of them, the netflix movie pretty much filled me with rage when I watched it, lol. For someone who had never seen the originals, I could see how they'd find it entertaining, but it should've been named something else.

@@Valorius watch the making of it. Yes I hear you about the originals. Great films

He is definitely the guy you want in a foxhole with you

You want Junior, actually, so you can both dodge duty and firefights together--after he explains in detail how the White Man works.

Almost all predatory species engage in war and battles.

I thought last night to mention fighting holes--how much they suck should be known (in the event you don't know). When watching war movies, you see dudes in their holes and think nothing of it but digging a fighting hole royally sucks; try it at home (you have to call "611" first, at least around here you do, so you don't wreck your neighbor's cable or start a gas leak). I don't think I dug one fighting hole the entire time I was in but I almost did; when I was in C 1/8 under Captain Gregory (who became a Colonel later somewhere, with a blog called "The Colonel's Corner," a name other bloggers have often used too, I've just learned) we were humping around Lejeune one night and every time we stopped had to turn to right away to dig fighting holes--I cursed our C.O. all night long for that (he was a good C.O. too, some aren't). Humps in themselves royally suck--humps are probably the worst part of being infantry--humps compete with freezing and heat strokes as far as misery goes; when humps came up, they were sometimes known ahead of time--we'd have a thirteen-miler next Tuesday, for example, that might leak from HQ--others occurred only because we were way out in LZ Motard at Lejeune--or some god-awful foreign country like Italy--having no way to get back to base sometimes, we walked all the way back from the field (there were also plenty of times they called trucks, thank God). But digging holes that time every time we stopped taught me a lesson in reality--don't join the infantry. Be construction because they get paid much better to dig holes (it's why you only see one guy digging with the rest of the crew watching--I actually just saw that, pointing out as much to the city--the hundreds of dollars wasted via those who clearly contributed nothing to the cause). Anyone looking for a taste of the life should dig a fox-hole in your backyard--with no breaks. You'll see; it takes awhile and wears you out. A "real" fighting hole cannot be faked because they'll check; when we were in Oman during Operation Desert Storm we never really dug holes there, either--we dug what Chad Daybell would call a fox-hole--our holes were pathetic in comparison to a real fighting hole. Holes, though, also save lives; trenches also suck--we never dug a trench but lives were saved during World War 1 because of trenches (shrapnel is hot, flies all over the place, taking off arms, legs, and heads, but not if you're "underground"). You also have to use a little shovel from Supply for your hole--so don't cheat or I'll know.

@alexanderwalle3568 the best part is after you spend all day digging a fox hole or fighting position, sit down and 10 minutes later they tell you to fill it back in because you're moving out

That's exactly what Gregory had us doing--what you would do in a real situation so you'd stay alive--but that was the only time we ever did that--we clearly should have done it much more--to really toughen us up--what whiners we were; reading some history later, how far people had to walk to get somewhere in time--it was sometimes all day long, if not hundreds of miles to an objective (an infantry unit moves at about 3 MPH--we usually took a break every hour for about ten minutes--the math of how fast we were going was easy--they moved us as fast as possible, of course, with Captain Gregory in the lead along with other HQ bohunks and VIP's behind him--I once had a squad leader curse me after a hump was over--he told me that keeping up with me had him ornery--I had no idea he was having trouble). Historically speaking, I realized they didn't hump us enough--we should have had a hump every week--a good ten or twenty-miler would have kept us in shape and humble--and if you fell-out at Lejeune, a Humvee would save you (because everyone knew it was back there).

My knees are thankful that they did not LOL

I worked with a chowder-head in 2006 who was a former Marine and a young one (it seemed to me he should have been in the Middle East and not working in the U.S.--I couldn't believe he hadn't been called back but never asked); his arms were bigger than my legs--his head was completely empty. He claimed humps ruined your body, etc.,.--big guys usually don't make it is how it works, it's the scrawny ones who smoke six packs a day--they never stop, they never die. He'd already also gotten baby-trapped with this half-baked bitch--that's the worst that can happen to you because it is--it's worse than digging a hundred fighting holes. His life was over wherever he is and what he's doing now. He'll never ditch that ho--she's going nowhere and so is he. As planned.

Junior reminds me of this guy in H 2/8 who had a similar attitude; he spent a lot of time in his rack if he ever made it to formation--he never did shit because I never saw him outside our room--all he ever really did was wear cammies--he got out of everything else we were supposed to do--there are people in the military now just like Junior--then he went UA (which got me a new roommate).

I've always thought that looked like him but I was never sure

In a flight suit--a get-up commonly seen at the front; which apparently ruined his plans for flying out of there (Vietnamese suicide bombers were probably promised a never-ending supply of fish sauce served by virgins who plow the fields while wearing only one piece of bamboo).

No idea what you said but thanks for posting

You got it brother. It's a truly great scene and it needed to be on KZfaq in 4k.

We literally as America , have Zips in the wire ..

@scoot9316 indeed.

We had an "O'Neill" in C 1/8 although he was only a Lance Corporal (who probably went no further than that--I hope); he was big and worthless--if you saw how big he was, you'd be concerned but you shouldn't have been. After some platoon flim-flam and weird events concerning our platoon sergeant (who was actually crazy so was prone to over-stepping--including people's personal lives before they joined-up that he'd learned somehow--probably by talking to them, then using that info against them later--that being something I wasn't wise to at the time but picked-up on here and there) Lance Corporal "Mick" somehow landed a job in the armory despite having not one skill beyond being an 0311--he'd sucked at that, actually. He was all mouth, muscle, height and no action. How he got in the armory I never figured-out because no "03" would have ever made it back there--it was impossible. There was no reason for him to be back there but there he was; armorers have skills or so they always appeared to me. If you were infantry, you'd probably stay there until your EAS, even if you royally sucked like he did--you'd still do okay enough and long enough for an Honorable.

Definitely one of my all-time favorites. This came out probably a year or so before I join the Army

I'll bet when Dale Dye gets in a bad mood, he grabs a PRC-77.

@@alexanderwalle3568 Maybe that's how his hair turned white.

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Definitely true however it's pretty hard to tell your squad leader what to do unless you want an Article 15 LOL

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The VC killed Junior because his malingering could be heard throughout the jungle.

Emilio Estevez (who was previously successful in the 1st Civ. Div. as a repo man) was supposed to play Taylor but because the world hates reality, it took about a decade for "Platoon" to be made at all; by that time, Estevez was too old for the part--Oliver Stone wanted people as young as possible, like they were in Vietnam (Estevez had also hung-around and listened to "heads" like Suicidal Tendencies and The Circle Jerks--Barnes hated such swinging dicks--more punks like Junior would have been too much).

Taylor was the last witness against him, he had murder charges hanging over his head that were going to be dealt with after they got back to basecamp.

I don't see anyone laughing at it in this comment section

@Valorius fascinating thar you're so myopic! You really see the world a comment section???? What kind of people are we producing these days, some people were laughing at Elias being shot in our local bookstore! STOP BEING MYOPIC AND SELF-CENTERED AND SELF-ABSORBED! you were probably born in '90s? 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 a very narrow-minded generation; NO, not in the comments section, silly.

The French should have fought on the side of the allies with their fleet. They chose not to and it was too much risk to the Allies that the Germans would seize the fleet they had no choice but to sink it

thanks for the take.

I still have the nail we all got in boot camp; it's tied with a string to my old rifle-range book (that's so idiots don't lose their nails--I would have lost it right away--probably on the range). The nail was a necessary tool for adjusting the sights of yer rifle. Ace Hardware has many like it, but that one is mine My nail is my best friend I must master my nail as I must master my life Without my nail, my rifle is useless Without my nail, I am useless

You nailed it.

"And I cant allow it. I won't allow that."

It was Bunny's feather that got him killed--I hate being tickled when I'm under attack--it always makes me turn around and see what's touching me when I should be paying attention.

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I saw him at the PX on Lejeune, actually--but I actually didn't. Other people, though, swore they saw him on base here and there "Small world. Carlos Hathcock and me shooting the breeze."

The elation Taylor and Francis felt was like the victory me and Nate felt when we'd worked until 4 A.M. so slashed a customer's bill in half because no one else was around--my adrenalin went through the roof as the idea became reality; returning to the shop, they never figured-out we got in so late and why, despite the numbers being clear as a bell (but not the numbers in our pockets--those have remained a secret for years).

Bunny was wronged.

@@Valorius Let down by a coward

@@ArchStanton-xw2bd Reminds me of the scene from Saving Private Ryan.

Lol what stuff?

That fighter jet still looks like The Batplane to me.

@alexanderwalle3568 it is a very poorly rendered Northrup F5 Freedom fighter. Platoon was made in an era before the Department of Defense realized the propaganda value of Hollywood movies

The woman Barnes shot there was probably the biggest "Karen" in Vietnam.

The M16 is a great weapon, though; I used to play with all the flaps and buttons and shit when we were laying-around in the field with nothing to do but wait on whatever bullshit they had us doing next not to mention the crap at the moment--what all those flaps, buttons and shit did I had no idea--I was supposed to know--for that reason I never knew, what I did know was how cool it was that they all opened and closed just right, every time, and made soothing noises.

@alexanderwalle3568 lol

Huh?

In a scene after the battle they show king, the black Squad leader, reach into one of the vietcong's pockets and remove a big bag of heroin

It's how they cut-out the middle-man.

Speaking of fish sauce and World War Two, I met Maxine Ferebee--the bombardier's sister of the "Enola Gay"; sometime around 2013 (or so, I lost track) I was diddy-bopping down the street when this older woman started running her suck--she naturally, soon began talking about the "Enola Gay," if I'd ever heard of it is what she'd asked me--it never really happens that you meet someone with a direct connection to a historical event--and if you do, it's never when you're diddy-bopping like I was. I'd heard of the "Enola Gay," so she told me her brother was the bombardier. That never really happens, either, but it happened that time. She told a lot of people that, of course--it got brought-up a lot--all the time, probably and why not..? I'd forgotten who the pilot was by then and never knew any of the other members of the crew but I know one know via that encounter--I immediately stopped diddy-bopping. She also thought we could have won the Vietnam War had we bombed the North into submission like we did in World War Two (they considered nuking North Vietnam actually, but Eisenhower, when asked about the idea thought we'd be crazy to do that to the Asians again; I also think the Vietnamese can't be beaten--Oliver Stone thinks the same and said the same thing about using nuclear weapons against Vietnam--he thinks they would have made a come-back, anyway, as they always do no matter what).

@alexanderwalle3568 paul tibbets was the pilot

He was the only one I remembered but it had been so long since I'd thought or read about it, I'd forgotten him. I also thought her name was Linda for some reason (and as a result, thought I'd been "Enola Gayed" by an older person whose name was "Ferebee" who, but in truth, had no real connection to the "Enola Gay," but seeing her photo online, it was her so was true).

Research that and get back to us

I cant understand that, but thanks for posting anyway.

I think you're definitely going to want to maintain that fighting spirit in human men so that there is someone here to fight back when AI takes over.

There was nothing about the attack on the French Fleet they refused to join the allies after they capitulated to the germans. Churchill had no choice.

Sure. And France will rescue England from Russia. Imagine all these Frenchmen with English women on each arm.

@rastenborg Russia is no threat to England. Russia can't even take over its next door neighbor.

It was written filmed and directed by a US Army Vietnam Infantry veteran. But i'm sure you know more about it than him.

YOU are a sorry excuse for a human.