Tim- No "Romance" in this thread- "Rambo" also starts with R- What a Joke- as were all the 'Nam based movies with the possible exception of "The Deer Hunter"! "Rambo" knocks out a chopper-with the "bad cop" shooting at him with a rifle-by pegging a rock at the rear rotor- later- another 'chopper farce- Rambo fires off a LAW from inside the chopper cockpit- Batshit- the backblast from a LAW in an enclosed area would act like a giant concusion grenade- you might have scraped up "Rambo" with a putty knife- My former SF pal was saying, in his own way- that with a full ALICE pack- all the water and ammo you could "hump" plus an issue knife the extra weight of the Jimmie Lile "Rambo" knife was not into his "risk vs reward" equation. If, you are reading "romance" into the topic of Patton and War- there is NOTHING even remotely romantic about it- it is blood and sweat and mud and monsoons and death- no romance,. no glory, and for me and others, 58,238 names plus the MIA's and POW's unrecovered or unknown- all wasted thanks to McNamara, LBJ, Westmoreland- a piss poor CG at Ft. Campbell- then even worse field cmdr. in MAC/V in spite of his "Recondo" school "in country"! At least with Patton we had a war we won with some honor- albiet at a tremendous cost in lives on both sides, and we had a clear goal in mind. RWFT- All The Way!!
Last edited by Run With The Fox; 06/26/08 01:10 PM.
