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What kind of weird sh!t goes down in the Air Force?

posted 9 years ago by jgroub
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When we first start the movie, the two silo guys (one being an incredibly young Michael Madsen in just his fourth role) are talking about sinsemilla - pot - and how great this girl's stuff was.

Next, we see McKittrick calling a four-star Air Force general, the commander of Cheyenne Mountain, a pig-eyed sack of sh!t, and nothing happens to him.

Then we see the infirmary, where the Air Force Doctor is dictating notes into a tape recorder. The patient, someone who is also on base and therefore in the Air Force has been smoking pot laced with PCP.

Then the Air Force guard is sexually harassing the living sh!t out of that nurse.

Finally, they're all a bunch of defeatists, as we see from that conversation between the two air traffic controllers watching the radar screen, when one of them asks the other if they like vodka, to which he replies, I just hope they don't make me eat the fish eggs (caviar).

WTF is up with the Air Force? I think there needs to be a serious internal investigation. And they need to lay off the drugs.

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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[–] jgroub 9 years ago

Yeah, I wasn't really commenting on the actual timing of when things happened. I was commenting on cursing out a 4-star general to his face. One that you ostensibly work for - because he commands the base. Although you're right, since he's a civilian, he may not be directly under his command. But do you really think that's a smart thing to say to the guy who runs the base with hundreds of armed men at his command?

Ummm, that was a joke.

Yes, of course it was a joke. It's called gallows humor. But it was defeatist. As in, "I don't trust our commander - either the commander-in-chief, or the commander of this base. I think that by the end of the day, we'll all be drinking vodka, doing that Russian squat dance, and listening to balalaika music." In other words, "We are going to lose, and lose big."

I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

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