[RustedCorpse]

I'm an ex marine with combat time too, (not gulf) and I have to say it's very realistic for what it was written for. One of the biggest things about being a marine is that you're a [censored] killer. I mean I spent 5 years basically being told my job was to kill as many people as possible before dying myself. But nowadays we end up just patrolling bombed out wastelands, or going through cities with 50% expected casualties with no "honor" to seek. I think the lamentation the author/movie tries to explain is that there are people that are more hardcore gladiator's than today's world, even inwar, allows, hence all the Vietnam comparisons.