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<blockquote data-quote="ninjayeti" data-source="post: 9225978" data-attributes="member: 6789120"><p>This. I only served in the army for three years, over 25 years ago. Yet it drives me nuts and totally ruins my immersion when shows get easy details about the military completely wrong. Lots of times is is things like not knowing how to salute or where medals go on a uniform, but sometimes it is just missing something that would be obvious to someone with a military background. </p><p></p><p>Stupid Example One:</p><p>In the book/movie <em>World War Z</em>, the soldiers call the zombies "Zack." I guess it was supposed to be like Vietnam era soldiers calling the enemy "Charlie." Sure, soldiers in a zombie apocalypse would come up with a nickname for zombies - but that is objectively the wrong one. </p><p></p><p>The nickname "Charlie" for the Vietcong comes from the Army phonetic alphabet. In the phonetic alphabet the letter V is read "victor" and C as "charlie" (to avoid miscommunications over poor quality radio transmissions). Vietcong got abbreviated as "V.C" which then expanded to "Victor Charlie" or just "Charlie." In the Army phonetic alphabet Z is not "Zack" it is "Zulu." So in an actual zombie apocalypse the army nickname for zombies would obviously be "Zulus." Zack is just stupid and not something any soldier would have come up with. </p><p></p><p>Stupid Example Two:</p><p>The show<em> Barry</em> had a scene where Barry describes his first kill as a soldier in Afghanistan. It is an incredibly moving, well-written scene until a soldier in the flashback sequence says "Hey everyone - Barry just smoked a guy from 500 yards away!"</p><p></p><p>Wrong. No US soldier would express the range of a shot in <em>yards</em>. Shooting is always in <em>meters</em>. That dialogue was just so completely wrong it ruined what was otherwise an amazing scene.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ninjayeti, post: 9225978, member: 6789120"] This. I only served in the army for three years, over 25 years ago. Yet it drives me nuts and totally ruins my immersion when shows get easy details about the military completely wrong. Lots of times is is things like not knowing how to salute or where medals go on a uniform, but sometimes it is just missing something that would be obvious to someone with a military background. Stupid Example One: In the book/movie [I]World War Z[/I], the soldiers call the zombies "Zack." I guess it was supposed to be like Vietnam era soldiers calling the enemy "Charlie." Sure, soldiers in a zombie apocalypse would come up with a nickname for zombies - but that is objectively the wrong one. The nickname "Charlie" for the Vietcong comes from the Army phonetic alphabet. In the phonetic alphabet the letter V is read "victor" and C as "charlie" (to avoid miscommunications over poor quality radio transmissions). Vietcong got abbreviated as "V.C" which then expanded to "Victor Charlie" or just "Charlie." In the Army phonetic alphabet Z is not "Zack" it is "Zulu." So in an actual zombie apocalypse the army nickname for zombies would obviously be "Zulus." Zack is just stupid and not something any soldier would have come up with. Stupid Example Two: The show[I] Barry[/I] had a scene where Barry describes his first kill as a soldier in Afghanistan. It is an incredibly moving, well-written scene until a soldier in the flashback sequence says "Hey everyone - Barry just smoked a guy from 500 yards away!" Wrong. No US soldier would express the range of a shot in [I]yards[/I]. Shooting is always in [I]meters[/I]. That dialogue was just so completely wrong it ruined what was otherwise an amazing scene. [/QUOTE]
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