Ranger Regiment Veterans React to Military Movies 

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I think we need a whole episode just on recruitment ads. The good ones, the bad ones, the awful ones (looking at you army pr person who thought that cartoon one was a good idea)

There was a behind-the-scenes production about how they made Stripes. The director, Ivan Reitman, said that working with the Army was a director's dream come true. The Army assigned a liaison officer to help coordinate the scenes. One of the most challenging was the marching scene at the beginning of the movie because of all the background action; crane shot with tanks rolling down the street, other formations marching by, buses, etc. One of the actors screwed up their lines meaning they had to reshoot. Reitman was pissed because of the amount of time they were going to lose resetting everything. He explained to the liaison that they had to start over so all those elements would have to get back to their starting positions. A few minutes later while Reitman was talking to the actors the liaison approached him and explained that everything was ready to go. Reitman was stunned that it was reset so quickly!

Pick a service, pick a challenge, set yourself apart ARMY NAVY AIRFORCE MARINES what a great way, what a great way of life.

My Dad went through basic & served in the army close to the time frame portrayed in Stripes. From his experience he said Stripes was reasonably accurate in mindset & attitude during that time until Bill Murray's character said "That's a fact jack." After that it went downhill from that point on. He also said this was at a time when the army became "This man's Army" and you could basically call your drill Sgt an a$$hole as long as you put it in a sir sandwich lol.

"I want to be a Nascar driver" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The grenade range scene from In The Army Now brings back memories. I went through Warrior Transition Course at Ft Sill. Evening before the grenade range one of the Drill Sergeants was going over the rules amd safety info. He finished with the greatest line I've ever heard. "Tomorrow on the grenade range if you blow yourself up it's your own fucking fault, Hooah."

The Jack Carr nod for the hero's journey killed me

The Navy Accelerate Your Life ads were awesome. Made everyone think they could be a SEAL, SWCC or a pilot.

I went through Ft Knox reception in '86 just a few years after Stripes was filmed there and it still looked exactly the same, especially sitting in the big room with all the unit emblems on the wall where SFC Hulka give hsi big "Your Mama's are not here to take care of you now" speech, the SGM we had just yelled at us to "wash your fuckin ass!" The best part for me was the barber who shaved my head had a pic of him shaving John Candy's head from the movie stuck to his mirror.

I was stoked to join the Army and what got me going to the recruiter was that 1983 commercial! Then I saw the M1 Armor Crewman video in the office and thought, "THAT'S IT! I want to do that!!" LOL Little do they tell you that 90% of your year is in garrison pulling PMCS, guard duty, and in the boring classroom. LOL

17:36 " 'Be all you can be?' I made COFFEE through Desert Storm." IYKYK

Those barracks in "Stripes" were the standard Army WWII barracks there & many other places in the US. I slept in the same type at Ft Knox reception station in 1983, and at Ft Chaffee Arkansas at my last NG summer camp in the mid 90's- began and ended my Army time in those mid-century relics.

When I was in army basic in the 70s I loved riding in the cattle truck, no seats standing room only but it was way better than a forced road march.

I was in (Army) from 90 to 94. There was a sergeant who was in the unit the coffee guy was in. The day after the commercial aired or was taped, don't remember which one, he said that guy got kicked out for drugs.

Loved the movie Stripes. It was one of my first rated R movies. Loved Sgt. "Big Toe" Hulka and John Candy.

always look forward to the monthly vets react videos! love in the army now and Stripes . classics

Stripes was one of my favorites because I went to basic at Ft Knox and knew the different locations in the movie. We did have to avoid Abrams and Bradleys driving around.

In the Navy, we didn't call them drill instructors, they were called RDC's, recruit division commanders. I was one for 3 years and one time I had a recruit that didn't get up at reveille, I went down to his bunk and yelled at him and kicked the bunk, he looked up at me, eyes open, and rolled over and pulled the blanket over his head. My next move was to grab the bunk bed and flip it and him up on its end. Dumping him out on the deck. Never had a problem with anyone being in their bunk after reveille after that.

Went through basic in '93, Fort Gordon. We had those same bays, just with a lot more space in the middle (which of course meant a lot more buffing every weekend). My Senior Drill was a female airborne typist (her words) with two gold teeth in the front. Probably the most badass soldier I ever encountered in 7 years of active duty. KP actually *was* the best time I had in basic. Companies were still single sex at that point, but our battalion had two female companies in it. For the first few weeks, until the battalion filled out, KP duty was co-ed. The drills didn't exactly leave us alone, but they couldn't be everywhere all the time.

I want to see review of the Rangers driving Polaris quads in an open field with mini guns firing at nothing. It was like a copy of a Russian Paratrooper ad.

In my day..those flashlights….they were what we had…used them in the DMZ South Korea….glad they’ve been replaced by better gear….but we made them work

"We do more before 9am than most people do all day" because we never went to sleep from the night before. Army Infantryman 86-95! "KUTF"! The barracks in Stripes were WW2 era and still used at Ft. Benninng in 86 at Harmony Church.

My basic started just a few days after they wrapped up filming Stripes. We stood on the paint, and got our hair cut and gear from the same people in the movie! The best part was that our 19D training unit was the exact same as in the movie (it was only mentioned in the uncut version) which was also the first movie we saw going into AIT. We felt pretty good about being at Ft. Knox even getting torched on Agony & Misery! It was a fun, hot summer! Thanks for the flashback!

These guys are great. Been seeing Jariko all over the interwebs lately. How about "Renaissance Man" with Danny DeVito on an upcoming vid?

Soldier with Kurt Russell would be great to see, or Wind River shoot out scenes

Hey, great episode and will you react to the Expendables

The punishment with potatoes comes because they are slightly grainy and grainy and they contain moisture which means that your skin will start to do that wrinkly thing it doesn't the pool. The grit that comes with the potato will start getting in your skin and and you will have little, what they call berries, birds underneath your skin that hurt like hell and turning to open sores

Drop the pin throw the grenade... The line in the army now, was told to me before I went to basic training, now couple days ago, I told that line to my nephew who ships out in couple of weeks for basic... Gonna be a tradition :)

We had open bay barracks and "community" latrines, and some were still made of wood. When you were dropping a deuce, you were a whopping 6" from another set of cheeks.haha. Good times.

I joined the US Army one slogan before " Be all that you can be ". My slogan was " Join the people who've joined the Army. You can start living your tomorrow today. "

I went through basic at Ft. Sill Oklahoma where they filmed "In The Army Now". OMG! The flashbacks!

Please do a BRCC recruiting ad. "We do more before 9am than most people do all day".

That old school airborne be all you can be commercial was amazing. There was a Ranger one that had him getting out of a private jet at the end after all the cool stuff. Great video if you can find it.

Did my basic at Ft. Knox and got back there for my last year as a trainer. 76-80 Tanker, then Cav.

17:35 Hello everyone! I'm retired military and I found this commercial funny as hell. Love the fact that none of the soldiers in the field at the end have one drop of sweat or dirt on them. Dont get me started on the soldiers unbuttoned chin strap.🤣

BRCC should spoof that last "Be All You Can Be" commercial. Corny 80s coffee jingle, ending with a big ole grinning dude drinking some coffee. Hit me up, I'll write it for you.

saw stripes for the first time at Ft Lost in the Woods when i was on a 4 hour pass in basic. that was 1982. as always great vid brothers.

Would love to see you guys do reactions on recruiting commercials the good the bad and the ugly

I was living on Fort Devens in Massachusetts when Stripes came out. Everybody loved that movie because the army wasn’t really that much fun post Vietnam. The public was not very supportive of the military, Congress had cut budgets for military stuff kind of as a reaction to Vietnam, pay was terrible for enlisted guys, really terrible, etc. After Vietnam, when the draft ended, the military had a hard time getting people to join. So judges were giving guys the choice of going to jail or going into the military. My dad was an officer and a lot of officers were getting out of the military at that point because they were essentially being turned into babysitters and having to put up with a bunch of crap from lowlifes who chose the military over jail. So stripes was a very popular movie because it was funny but it also had a touch of realism to it. It was about this time that Saturday night live did a pretend ad for the Navy where they showed this poor schmuck mopping the deck of a carrier. It wasn’t until Reagan became president that they started throwing money at the military again and trying to change the public’s perception of what being in the military was like. That “ be all you can be” ad was really popular.

Thanks for your service 🙏

“In The Army Now” has authentic aspects of the Army because it was filmed at Ft. Sill (Lawton, OK). They completely filmed it on an active Army training base.

I remember seeing the "Be all you can be" commercials when I was little. Those, and that badass USMC "Crucible" commercial got me hyped as a kid

Stripes…. Is the reason I joined the Army! That basic training bay in, In the Army now does look just like Sand Hill, Ft Benning….. good times! I remember strippers in the NCO club on Sandhill back in 1987. Good god man, I was just 17 years old then. I also remember seeing Rangers at my graduation in OD Greens, I swore I’d be a Ranger…..two years later I was back at Benning, going through RIP. Two months after RIP….. Just Cause.

Another BANGERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR LOVE YOU GUYS

Fun fact... I ran that obstacle course in Stripes before it was retired at Ft. Knox.

I took Basic at Ft Knox a couple of years before Stripes was filmed there. The old WW2 barracks, the Barber Shop, the Reception Bldg and the Confidence course I knew well. When I went to Permanent party at Ft Devens, the barracks next door were the 10th Mtn Green Berets (nice guys after you got them to stop eating things off of the ground), they taught me how to repel on our off time. My Unit (46th Combat Support Hospital) treated the Black Hawk Down casualties set up in the Somali embassy, straight from the battlefield, years after I ETS'd...

Tbh. "In the army now" is one of THE MOST realistic army movies about basic training ever. That shit is SPOT on how dumb everything is. 9/10 only because some of the scenerios are silly.

I absolutely love these videos!

That Be All You Can Be campaign is what got me to join, and a year later I was standing in a 3rd Batt formation as the very first CCo 3rd Herd 2nd squad grenadier. We wouldn't be declared combat ready for another year.

If Evan Seal was a Ranger, where there ever a Bob Ranger that was a SEAL ?

I’ll never forget basic training at Fort Dix in 1987 when my drill Sgt climbed into the cattle car and actually said, “Your mama’s are not here to take care of you now”! Of course I started laughing cause I couldn’t believe he actually said it. Shit got real immediately when he climbed over the top of everyone like a spider monkey to get at me! I swear it was like a scene out of a horror movie, and his face! A lifetime of anger and rage condensed into that one split second when I knew he was about to kill me. Man, those were the good ol days!

We had 4 shitters on opposite walls facing each other. We decided to get a small table and put it in the middle and play cards as we were dropping logs.

i've seen in the army now at least 100 times. it was one of the few movies that played on early satellite tv lol. i remember waiting for the dish to rotate over and pick up the satellite that was broadcasting it...

Gotta do the Duke one day, Sands of Iwo Jima, Flying Leathernecks,The Fighting Seabees the list goes on.

Your comments were 🤣😂😅! Love it and thank you for your service! 👍🇺🇸♥️

Front - Back - Go, those barracks looked liked fort sill and cattle trucks. Memories

I was in a group that did Fire Spinning, and we spun wooden rifles with flaming bayonets. So much fun! I choregraphed a couple of formations, but then we went into the Boom Shakalala like Stripes

Have to get together a Couple of Air Force Opinions on " Private Benjamin" Once again! From a MARINE Vet! Nice to see the Light side of military Humor

I broke my collarbone at the start of my Canadian army cadet corps year-end inspection obstacle course demonstration, when I was 13. Finished the 30' long single rope bridge, boosted the other 2 guys onto the armory's 7' high storage shed, then jumped and got hauled up by one arm. Hopped off the other side, did a PLF and had to get taken to the hospital by my folks after the applause ended.

Love the vid

First thing they told us when we got to reception station at Ft. Knox was "They filmed Stripes here."

I went to Fort Jackson for basic in 1992, when Renaissance Man came out in 1994 it made me chuckle

Ritchie Valens' brother from "La Bamba." 🤣

Artillery King of Battle and it’s super fast paced with 11-9rs and just artillery in general you have to be face with in placing shooting and moving and it’s epic seeing an entire line of guns goings off shooting on the same target supporting whoever needs it best and worst job I ever had

Right before the end I thought about the 1983 recruiting ad where the Sargent is drinking the coffee. Then bam there it was. It kinda shows how effective that ad was.

Richard learning lessons from Jack is the best ,like and child learning from their dad

I loved that 1983 commercial too.

Bruh Jericho made me laugh out loud. What a legend. Bring him on more. Especaly at 1:20, that was so funny.

My Basic & infantry AIT was at fort Polk, LA summer of 1972 in old WW2 barracks

Yeah, those cattle cars are semi trailers with benches.............and 150 guys stuffed in it. It has benches, that you aren't sitting on.

Yes!!! need one with only the military recruiting commercials!!

adding to the realism. I love the contraceptive prescription glasses his rocking.

The flashlights at 6:56 we're referred to as the Lackland lasers in BMT when I went through Air Force BMT in the late 90's

I like to see yall do "The Great Raid" Movie about the rescue of POWs in the Pillipines near the end of War 2

We had two guys who while they were in boot camp that dropped the grenadine with the drill instructor in the pit, it was the same drill instructor months later after he recovered. Those guys were never issued grenades in our unit.

The recruiting ads you showed were bad ass.

Great content

I used to work with an old school Army guy, anytime someone mentioned the Army, he would sing, "Be, all that you can be! Get a fucked up life, and an ugly wife, in the Aaaaarmy!"

Good job guys 👍🏻

Love this

When you guys do army veterans for another episode do clips or action scenes from band of brothers

That 1983 commercial was so played over and over I considered joining when I graduated high school in 1985.

That Ranger commerical was badass.

I actually met Pauly Shore in Hawaii when I was with the Marine Corps. Met him outside a club that was having a concert with Danzig. What's awesome is this movie came out while I was in the Marines... I just remember him and three of his Buddies in a white Jeep.. only spoke to him for about a minute and a half

Hey they joke about the tanks but I nearly had an M1 crush my car at Fort Carson. He came off of a dirt trail onto the hardtop in front of me and I had to slam the brakes to avoid the accident. I learned that day that tanks always have the right of way.

At 6:09, I hadn't seen this in years and I agree the grenade explosion wasn't bad. I watched several go off in the Army and they always seemed to throw out a very light brown or purple cloud for some reason. NO flash I ever saw and you never saw the shrapnel unless it hit something and you saw it raining down after

i get to peel a pile of patatoes instead of doing a 15 mile march in the rain at 6 am? oh no, the horror.

when it came to the team tower climbing... I fell from the top, knocked myself silly on the shredded tires ground... The other two didn't hold allowing me to fall... They got SMOKED for it.

Ok I have a very stupid basic training story that truthfully happened to me. I enlisted in Apr 73, with a very low SS#, after getting thrown out of HS, with the dean of students notifying my Draft Board. So instead of waiting to get drafted as a HS Dropout, or running to Canada, I enlisted under a new program for the new volunteer Army. But I was born with bad flat feet, I thought was going to keep me out anyway, but the jokes on me, I was accepted!! But guaranteed state side duty for 18 out of 36 months and an MOS I could live with, truck driver. So anyway being a fairly fit looking 6’ 185 lbs, I was also made a squat leader in the welcome center, that was great till I got to my basic training unit and found out running three miles was not an issue, but walking the daily 10 miles was HELL on my feet! I went on sick call the next day and was given a Profile! That landed me in what was called STC, special training company, or as the troops called it, Shirley Temple Company, that was actually trucked from training center instead of marched, so I had plenty of Hand to Hand, Live Fire Range, with everything from Shotgun to.45, M16A1, M60 and sniper rifle, because I honestly shot 95/100! That was three missed in day fire, 2 in night fire! But what a time we had! But we , a complete company of 60 trainees, who were billeted in the oldest WWII wooden barracks with totally open floor plan, including the head, with a center section of the floor between both sides of bunk beds, that you never walked on with boots on! That was so highly polished! That was at Ft. Dix, N.J. From April 30- June 30, 1973. Then I had a one week leave before AIT at driving school at Ft. Dix, till my first choice of permanent party, Ft. Carson, CO. Came up after AIT! That was the best and worst time of my life!

‘It’s a hero’s journey’ Jack Carr on the side 🤣🤣🤣

Your videos are awesome and so fuckin fun to watch

How about Invasion USA with Chuck Norris? And have Matt Best and Tim Kennedy review it.

5:53 100% agreed. Went through basic back in 2002 at Ft. Jackson and I remember how hyped all of us were to throw a live grenade. Felt more like a cross between Disneyland and Viagra. 10 minutes in line for less than 30 seconds of pleasure. And it still sucked.

i joined during the be all you can be campaign 💪💪💪💪 rumor has it the first sergeant in the video at the end went to levenworth due to cocaine abuse

Right on - my oldest son is in one of the earliest photos.

The first movie… that was me and my friend when we went in.

the actors didn't know that real Army barbers would be shaving their heads until the scene was shot. He lined all of the actors up and shot the scene as scripted to get their genuine reactions to their heads being shaved. John Candy became depressed after the scene was shot. John Candy became depressed after the scene was shot. This is why you see him picking up his hair and looking sad when he walks out of the barber shop.

I noticed @17:45 that the paratrooper landed with his feet apart, under a seemingly T-10 canopy.

Holy Shit, the 80's recruiting commercial with a gama goat! Those were just getting phased out when I went in. Still kind of want one.