# Which younger actors and actresses have served in combat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-younger-actors-and-actresses-have-served-in-combat/635986 "2012-09-27T10:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-younger-actors-and-actresses-have-served-in-combat/635986/21 "2012-09-28T04:09:53Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I figure at 65, Schwarzenegger no longer qualifies as one of our younger actors. I don’t know why I read this into the OP- since the OP himself in no way specifies it- but I was thinking “younger actors” meaning are there actors “of today” who have combat experience _specifically in comparison to_ the significant number of professional actors who served in Word War II. For that generation, there was a great number of well known actors with combat experience: Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gene Autry, Ernest Borgnine, Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance, the list goes on. So, that’s the frame of reference I was working with as I considered the OP’s question. Again, the OP did not actually specify as such. I don’t know why I read into it that way. So, seeing someone list Schwarzenegger didn’t strike me as out of place. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-younger-actors-and-actresses-have-served-in-combat/635986/22 "2012-09-28T07:29:59Z")
Schwarzenegger’s generation might have fought in Vietnam or NI or the Falklands or SA / Zim. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-younger-actors-and-actresses-have-served-in-combat/635986/23 "2012-09-28T12:04:34Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > For that generation, there was a great number of well known actors with combat experience: Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gene Autry, Ernest Borgnine, Burgess Meredith, Jack Palance, the list goes on. Mel Brooks. Yes, Corporal Melvin Kaminsky is a combat veteran. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-younger-actors-and-actresses-have-served-in-combat/635986/24 "2012-09-28T12:07:09Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Again, the OP did not actually specify as such. I don’t know why I read into it that way. So, seeing someone list Schwarzenegger didn’t strike me as out of place. Likewise, as per the OP: _“I wonder, how many and which of the current set of actors have served in combat?”_ So long as THE EXPENDABLES 2 is currently on-screen, sure as the big guy seems to have two other movies currently in post-production and two more currently in pre-production, I figured it was worth mentioning. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-younger-actors-and-actresses-have-served-in-combat/635986/25 "2012-09-28T12:36:09Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Likewise, as per the OP: _“I wonder, how many and which of the current set of actors have served in combat?”_ So long as THE EXPENDABLES 2 is currently on-screen, sure as the big guy seems to have two other movies currently in post-production and two more currently in pre-production, I figured it was worth mentioning. Don’t know about the rest of the cast but Chuck Norris is an Air Force vet. But he was in between the Korean War and Viet Nam. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-younger-actors-and-actresses-have-served-in-combat/635986/26 "2012-09-29T01:44:34Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Don’t know about the rest of the cast but Chuck Norris is an Air Force vet. But he was in between the Korean War and Viet Nam. Dolph Lundgren apparently served two years with the Swedish Marine Corps before earning a graduate degree in chemical engineering. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-younger-actors-and-actresses-have-served-in-combat/635986/27 "2012-09-30T16:21:46Z")
Not an actor, but Frec Durse of Limp Bikzit served in the USN. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-younger-actors-and-actresses-have-served-in-combat/635986/29 "2013-03-14T08:55:23Z")
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