The lack of any effort to have a military consultant chime in and just fix the basic stuff around military customs and courtesy, or rank structure would have given this movie an additional 3 stars from me.
Any recently discharged servicemember could have been hired for peanuts, probably just a movie credit alone, as a consultant to this movie, and it wouldn't have pissed off a generation of veterans, and would have improved the script.
- Captains do not give orders to Lt. Colonels.
- Junior Non-Commissioned Officers do not command 50 guys at a forward operating base.
- Superiors do not address their juniors as sir. It is a courtesy shown to the higher rank.
Any recently discharged servicemember could have been hired for peanuts, probably just a movie credit alone, as a consultant to this movie, and it wouldn't have pissed off a generation of veterans, and would have improved the script.