after he pulled a gun on Von on the shooting range. That is just idiotic as they found out.
Also, why did Paxton want to get out of the army? Did he have kids and wife back home or was he too much of a coward to stay in the army?
Anyways, I thouroughly enjoyed this movie and give it a 8/10
Wilson was let back in the army because the army needed people. He didn't kill anyone so he was good to keep (and they probably thought that the chances of him and Bozz meeting again are zero).
shareThe Army would have pressed charges and the rest of his time would have been spent in an Army prison.
The Army would have never kept him.
It is pure fantasy on the part of the film makers.
At a time when the Army needed people, you honestly think they wouldn't have kept a person in that wanted to be there?
shareYes.
The real Army, not the absurd stereotype in this movie, would have gotten rid of him and pressed charges.
In a time when they were enlisting people solely to send them to die you think they would kick a guy out that wants to go over? This isn't today's army. This is about the Army mentality from years ago. Lots of things have changed in the 40 years since this timeframe.
shareIn a time when they were enlisting people solely to send them to die you think they would kick a guy out that wants to go over? This isn't today's army. This is about the Army mentality from years ago. Lots of things have changed in the 40 years since this timeframe.I'm sorry but that is just not true.
And yet Michael Jackson died anyway...
Irrelevant? Yes, but no more or less than this ridiculous thread.
Just got through watching this movie and wanted to see some of the comments, comparing them from 2000 to today. Especially now when the military has been in the news a lot with increasing reports of rape. Probably the same type of men that Wilson was like in the movie. A man was dishonorably discharged in Alaska after he was convicted of rape (DNA tested +) & that's all he got. No jail time, no nothing, just discharged. Another, (a Marine) who was in charge of stuff like this (preventing rape) was charged with sexual assault himself. The govt. really needs to do better background &/or psychological checks cause there are too many men like Wilson who are in the military. Too much time on their hands with nothing to do. Scary.
shareThe film establishes that the training unit had already had "too many" of their trainees removed from the Army. This makes the unit commander look bad, and reflects on his OER (and subsequently reflects on the NCOERs of the NCOs), and could harm their careers. "Careerism" is a problem taht the Army itself admits existed during that time period, and that the Army itself admits was harmful.
Moving Wilson to a different training unit would not be the black mark against the commander that a court martial would be. As long as the incident at the range was not reported up the chain of command, the company commander could decide how to handle it. In the film, the commander tells Paxton and Bozz to let him handle it, instead of them reporting it and seeking a court martial.
Paxton had enlisted to experience the military and war, as well as for patriotic reasons. What he experienced during his training made him doubt his decision, yet he was unwilling to desert or do anything to get himself out of serving his enlistment. Paxton sees how dehumanizing the experience of war has been on some of the veterans who are training them, and is unsure of whetehr or not he wants to become like that. The "accident" with Bozz gave him a third option - one where the injury made him unable to serve, so he could leave the military under honorable conditions.
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