It literally never got more accurate than this.
>>64703045Its a shame about Evan Wright, and the actor who played Ray.
>>64703045This show makes me want to try dip Is it any good?
>>64703291No. I should have made bank selling it on ship by the log
>>64703278What happened?
>>64703664Evan killed himself a while ago. I think he had a drinking problem. The actor for Ray also killed himself just a couple of weeks ago. Sad stuff.
>>64703045Never seen it and don't want to see it because the usmc is garbage. Is the theme of persistent theft of everything, anything you own by other marines shown or not in this series?
>>64703917You must have been really not liked if the guys in your squad/platoon were stealing from you. One of my boys almost threw hands on my behalf because someone accidentally drank my red bull I left out. Anyway, yeah it shows how you have to beg/borrow/steal/improvise in the show. Its one of the best, well researched and portrayed depictions of a military story. Better than BoB or the Pacific.
>>64703291The best way to kick a nicotine addiction is to never start. You won't regret not doing dip.Source: used to dip, can't stand it now
>>64703291I'm a former smoker. I never cared for dip, the taste, and spitting aren't my thing. Always makes me a bit nauseous too, probably because I'm like 60% retarded.
>>64703917the show is retarded and boring as fuck people will tell you it's realistic because they were in the military and did fuck all too just like these fucking retarded shitter driving around shitting in bags telling fart jokes who gives a single flying fuck actual brainless slop go read a fucking book
>>64704221>You must have been really not liked if the guys in your squad/platoon were stealing from you. I got stolen from once in four years, when another portion of a unit I was attached to handled our gear. So go figure myself and half the platoon got random shit stolen from us. White trash is as white trash does. In the workup prior to that another companies xo got his entire cif issue stolen in the field. Was he hated so much that he was stolen from? Actually no, the individuals responsible for it were caught and admitted that they did it for money. Disgusting that you make excuses for thieves.>Anyway, yeah it shows how you have to beg/borrow/steal/improvise in the showAh good, white trash being portrayed accurately. Better than the other way.>>64704251Oh I know the show is shit. As if Iraq and Afghanistan were hard or a real war lol. They were the equivalent of a child knocking over an anthill.
>>64704251Did you expect a show to protray anyone that enlisted in marines to be bunch of intellectuals?
>>64703045Reading the book, it is interesting how everyone thought they were doing jackshit and not being used to the best of their ability, and then at the end Godfather and Fick talk about how they really were the tip of the spear confusing the enemy's command through their rapid advance through the country, but the guys on the ground couldn't understand the bigger picture.I never did more research into it, but I wonder if that was true.
>>64704439>I remember, for instance, the memoirs of a low-ranking officer in Napoleon's army. At one point he describes taking part in an engagement near some hamlet. For weeks he identified this action by the name of the hamlet, until he suddenly discovered that it was in the battle of Austerlitz that he had fought.
>>64703917They actually remark they had to pay to fix their hmmwv up before the spearthrust
>>64703917We are never actually told how Garza acquired his replacement hemmet
