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Anybody else watching this?

I'm only an episode in.  It's "meh" to my wife, but more interesting to me since my dad served in the Marines for 27 years (Vietnam at the beginning of his career and the Persian Gulf war toward the end) and I grew up on Marine Corps bases (Lejeune High Class of 1992).  I'm a little amused at the range of characters featured, mostly because they all seem like kids to me at my age, even some of the junior officers.  A few have a very level-headed approach to combat -- they work their ass off to be ready for war at a moment's notice, but pray it never comes to that.  But some of the young enlisted men are like Francis straight out of stripes, borderline psychotic -- "All I know is I finally get to kill somebody."

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They gotta make a show, right?  The other thing about many of the "talkers" is they are the ones who change the most when shit hits the fan.

There is a wide range of characters in any group like that.  I started the series but didn't finish the first episode.

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7 minutes ago, Iceman said:

There is a wide range of characters in any group like that. 

True.  But as a kid they all seemed the same to me, like real life G.I. Joe action figures.  Part of being young, I guess.

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16 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Saw a trailer, looked like nothing but recruitment propaganda. Plenty of far more interesting and realistic docs about marine basic training out there already. 

Well there you go, looks like this series will win an Emmy.

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On 11/11/2025 at 9:58 AM, Helobious said:

Saw a trailer, looked like nothing but recruitment propaganda. Plenty of far more interesting and realistic docs about marine basic training out there already. 

I watched the first episode. It is nothing like recruitment propaganda. 

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

That’s what they said about Pauly Shore’s In the Army Now.

No, that was biodome… or was it jury duty… or son in law (bet you can’t guess my age range from this post)

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On 11/11/2025 at 8:08 AM, South Austin said:

Anybody else watching this?

I haven't, but I've been following along the USMC subreddit comments.  I am glad that it doesn't appear to be overly concerned with boot camp because that's been done to death and Marines telling boot camp stories are annoying.  

Everyone appears to be intrigued by the number of mustaches, that some of the Marine inherent gayness* is on display, and that some of the officers were openly critical of operations in a way that was surprising.  

*this is the least known element of USMC service and the most talked about in veteran communities, particularly as an artifact of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."  A common rhetorical question is "why are politicians so concerned about gay Marines when everyone in the Corps is a little gay?"

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