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Air Force, so it was already Mil-lite. Lackland AFB, San Antonio in 2011. Right after is when the scandal got out that people were getting raped left and right by MTI's so I heard it got even softer.
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Jan-Mar 2010 for me at Lackland. Basic was easy. Worst part was it rained for like the first 3 days of zero week so marching all around base and getting soaked in 50 degree weather. Got sick in basic and swear I didn't get better til some time in April.
 
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Never served bc I'm a eurocuck and it was a mandatory lottery, old style raffle tombola drum spinner with paper tickets, drew a winner and got to choose if I'd get stationed at an Greenlandish airbase for a year or get to ride on out of the draft office on my ass. Later, chumps.

Now a days it's mandatory for all over here, including women, hahahaha. We're so fucked if Putin decides to send a prison gang. Blondes gonna get raped - and the women too, hah.
 
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My kid and I recently watched Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and 1917. It was a real chore to get through BoB and he fell asleep during some of the less action oriented episodes. SPR was better but I still had to poke him a few times. The death camp scenes nor the gore seemed to phase him at all(12yo). He said 1917 was a masterpiece, but probably helped that he recognized the over-the-top scene towards the end. Not complaining, 1917 is a very good movie, but not the ranking I would have expected.

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My kid and I recently watched Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and 1917. It was a real chore to get through BoB and he fell asleep during some of the less action oriented episodes. SPR was better but I still had to poke him a few times. The death camp scenes nor the gore seemed to phase him at all(12yo). He said 1917 was a masterpiece, but probably helped that he recognized the over-the-top scene towards the end. Not complaining, 1917 is a very good movie, but not the ranking I would have expected.

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Fury (2014)

If you want a little more satire (not comedy satire), then Inglorious Basterds (2009) or Full Metal Jacket (1987). Albeit, thinking about it, if you want full on comedy, can't go wrong with Major Payne (1995).

I recently watched The Pacific, made by the same production team as BOB. I made it about 1/2 through. It was nice to see Jon Bernthal. Overall, the writing is alright. BOB is much better, but BOB shows its age. I wish the music wasn't so god-cursed loud. Tbh, I don't like the score in BOB at all. And I would be able to tolerate it if it wasn't louder than everything else half the time.

I hope we eventually will get the option to adjust sound settings like we do in video games. In games, you can adjust dialogue, SFX, and music volume. Can't do that in movies/tv shows for some reason.
 
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My kid and I recently watched Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and 1917. It was a real chore to get through BoB and he fell asleep during some of the less action oriented episodes. SPR was better but I still had to poke him a few times. The death camp scenes nor the gore seemed to phase him at all(12yo). He said 1917 was a masterpiece, but probably helped that he recognized the over-the-top scene towards the end. Not complaining, 1917 is a very good movie, but not the ranking I would have expected.

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The Pacific was the companion piece to Band of Brothers that detailed the fight on the islands against Japan. It can get pretty gruesome.
 
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Deathwing said:
My kid and I recently watched Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and 1917. It was a real chore to get through BoB and he fell asleep during some of the less action oriented episodes. SPR was better but I still had to poke him a few times. The death camp scenes nor the gore seemed to phase him at all(12yo). He said 1917 was a masterpiece, but probably helped that he recognized the over-the-top scene towards the end. Not complaining, 1917 is a very good movie, but not the ranking I would have expected.

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BoB is the best war show Hollywood has ever produced, sorry about your son's poor tastes (in ranking BoB behind the other two)! I don't think 1917 would even rank in my top 10 for war movies!

With a 12 year old's attention span in mind I would say go with Blackhawk Down and/or maybe Warfare. There are movie/TV shows that I like more, such as Generation Kill and Dunkirk, but I don't think they would necessarily hold a kids interest either. Same with Master and Commander, as it's a war movie in terms of what it would be like hunting and being hunted on a ship of the line, but probably wouldn't hold a kids interest.

Come and See is from the perspective of a kid his age, but I'm not sure the Nazi brutality depicted would be appropriate. It's been too long since watching it to be able to rate how it really compares to the three you just watched. I've only seen it once and found it good but not great; it might hit differently for your son, since the kid is approximately the same age.

If you want to move timelines and cultures, Kagemusha is a bit of a war movie and a lot of dudes walking around with swords and armor(ancient Japan). It came on the USA channel late one night when I was a kid and thought it was great, but I may have been around 15 at the time.

Finally, I love Gettysburg and it is one of the most historically accurate movies ever made. Like Blackhawk Down there isn't much else, other than the war, but that war is a slower pace than "modern" war.
 
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My kid and I recently watched Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, and 1917. It was a real chore to get through BoB and he fell asleep during some of the less action oriented episodes. SPR was better but I still had to poke him a few times. The death camp scenes nor the gore seemed to phase him at all(12yo). He said 1917 was a masterpiece, but probably helped that he recognized the over-the-top scene towards the end. Not complaining, 1917 is a very good movie, but not the ranking I would have expected.

What should we watch next?
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Fury (2014)

If you want a little more satire (not comedy satire), then Inglorious Basterds (2009) or Full Metal Jacket (1987). Albeit, thinking about it, if you want full on comedy, can't go wrong with Major Payne (1995).

I recently watched The Pacific, made by the same production team as BOB. I made it about 1/2 through. It was nice to see Jon Bernthal. Overall, the writing is alright. BOB is much better, but BOB shows its age. I wish the music wasn't so god-cursed loud. Tbh, I don't like the score in BOB at all. And I would be able to tolerate it if it wasn't louder than everything else half the time.

I hope we eventually will get the option to adjust sound settings like we do in video games. In games, you can adjust dialogue, SFX, and music volume. Can't do that in movies/tv shows for some reason.
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Hook a PC to your TV and you can do the audio thing where it equalizes it all. Cannot remember what it's called. My Nvidia shield does it as well.
 
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The Pacific was the companion piece to Band of Brothers that detailed the fight on the islands against Japan. It can get pretty gruesome.
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My German Grandfather was in the pacific for real. As a US Marine killing japs. My grandmother saw a picture of him guarding captured japs & that's how she found out where he was in the war. Somewhere I have a newspaper page with a picture of my grandmother holding the paper with my grandpa's pic on it (hope that made sense).
Anyway he left most of his intestine and a lot of his sanity in the Pacific. That was some brutal shit.

I cannot start BOB and not watch them all back to back , the book it's based on was great too. The Pacific was not as good though.
 
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Three kings is good for something that's mainly a comedy. Remake of Kelly's heroes iirc.
 
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My German Grandfather was in the pacific for real. As a US Marine killing japs. My grandmother saw a picture of him guarding captured japs & that's how she found out where he was in the war. Somewhere I have a newspaper page with a picture of my grandmother holding the paper with my grandpa's pic on it (hope that made sense).
Anyway he left most of his intestine and a lot of his sanity in the Pacific. That was some brutal shit.

I cannot start BOB and not watch them all back to back , the book it's based on was great too. The Pacific was not as good though.
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The Pacific War was so brutal it was virtually impossible to have a TV show narrative where you could follow a bunch of the same Marines all the way from Guadalcanal through Okinawa. BOB is a better TV show because you can follow most of the same cast of characters from start to finish.
 
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Hook a PC to your TV and you can do the audio thing where it equalizes it all. Cannot remember what it's called. My Nvidia shield does it as well.
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I have a hidden, old macbook pro attached to my tv at all times. I'll check out that equalizer! I've also read that boosting the middle channel vs the left and right helps as most the dialogue is mixed in the middle.
 
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My German Grandfather was in the pacific for real. As a US Marine killing japs. My grandmother saw a picture of him guarding captured japs & that's how she found out where he was in the war. Somewhere I have a newspaper page with a picture of my grandmother holding the paper with my grandpa's pic on it (hope that made sense).
Anyway he left most of his intestine and a lot of his sanity in the Pacific. That was some brutal shit.

I cannot start BOB and not watch them all back to back , the book it's based on was great too. The Pacific was not as good though.
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That's brutal. My great uncle, whom I never met unfortunately, was a USAF mechanical engineer on the Manhattan Project.

He didn't know while directly working on it, but he worked on a top secret assignment where he had to design the release mechanism for the atomics out of the airplane.
 
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