Over There: Aug 3 (spoilers)

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Ok. I’ll admit I’ve gotten sucked into this collection of Fox news stories and war movie cliches coagulated into “intense drama”. Mostly because it is pretty ridiculous but takes itself so seriously.
For starters, I will continue to update my Big List of Over There War Movie Cliches I started in this thread:

X-Introspective college guy who joined the army to find himself (Charlie Sheen called. He wants his character from Platoon back.)
X-Hard driving drill sergent
X-Idiot lieutenant
X-Black power guy
X-Two negros share a “black moment” in this White man’s army
X-Obligatory “I’ll shoot you myself” line
X-Female soldier who insists on doing it all herself (even though she physically can’t)
X-“Here’s what I plan to do when I get home…” guy (critically injury in 3…2…1…)
X-I’ll bang this guy while my man’s off fighting
X-Annoying “hey where are you from” guy
X-Innocuous sounding nicknames with a horrific origin behind them (they call me “Rocky” because I crushed an Iraqi’s head with a big rock)
–Guy trapped on a pressure-sensitive landmine
–Jumps on a grenade to save the squad guy
–Sgt R. Lee Ermey
–Colonel Dale Dye
–He was supposed to go home tomorrow guy
–“Enemy Mine” scenario where isolated Iraqi and US Army soldier have to work together
–Gunner trapped in the ball turret and the landing geer wont go down
X-I want to rejoin my unit (with my permenant injury) guy (NEW!)
X-Oh shit!! We killed them all!! (civilians) (NEW!)
X-Why does a [insert enemy nationality here] want to fight against his own people? guy (NEW!)
X-Dad went out for a pack of smokes and never came back (NEW!)
X-Single squad dispatched to the middle of nowhere while the rest of the battalion goes somewhere else (NEW!)
/-Black guy playing the harmonica (NEW!) - 1/2 credit because one guy sings
–Someone makes a still out of a Hummer radiator or something (NEW!)
–Someone’s sweetheart will have nightmares the instant her man is wounded/killed (NEW!)
–The squad will be forced to deal with a Liberal anti-war reporter (NEW!)

X-Mission accomplished
A couple of high points:
The new guy who is somehow instantly recognizable in his kevlar as “Arab” (even though the sgt looks more Arab IMHO and the militant black guys seem much more likely to embrace radical Islam) knows freakin everything about EVERY Arab “oh those are Syrian because of their Ray Bans. Iranians wear Oakleys”.

The one-legged guy wants to rejoin the service. Not since Cuba Gooding Jr lost his leg in Men of Honor has a soldier rejoined the service after such an injury.

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After the car blew up, I would have loved for someone to have turned to Dim, the “Could they have just been ordinary people fleeing the fighting with their lights off and not stopping at roadblocks” guy, and asked “Do you feel better now, soldier?”

It appears that Dim’s wife is an alcoholic as well as an adulteress. If she embezzles money from her employer or kicks a puppy in the next episode, we can rest assured that she’ll take on one horrible trait per week.

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Naw…it was perfect the way they did it.

“Could they have just been ordinary people fleeing the fighting with their lights off and not stopping at roadblocks?”
“Yep”

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I’m pretty sure that’s actually happened, at least once during our current overseas adventure. I’ll see if I can find the relevant story.

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Shit, the guy already wrote a book about it.

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There’s this guy, and this guy.