"Cub Driver" wrote in message

(Did you catch the part about the crazy Marine
named Dale Dye?

No, I didn't. Likely I read the book after I saw the movie. I really
liked Full Metal Jacket, though cineophiles generally hold their noses
at mention of it.

Dye is the guy that runs the Hollywood boot camp. Was the captain in
Platoon ("Lovely ----ing war"), was in Saving Private Ryan on the
President's staff and appears in just about every American war movie made
since the '80s. If it's the same guy, Herr describes the guy as a nutjob
who painted a flower-shaped target on the front of his helmet.

The other classic example borrowed by FMJ from Dispatches is the helicopter
doorgunner screaming "Git some!" and answering questions about shooting
civilians from the helicopter.

-c