[NFHale]

Certainly a well done film, for sure.

Always wondered what Vietnam combat vets thought of it. That’s the real measure of it, the only yardstick worth measuring. They lived through it.

Much in the same fashion as “Saving Private Ryan” and the Omaha beach landing, and those gentlemen that lived through that.

[oh8eleven]

Always wondered what Vietnam combat vets thought of it.
I was USMC '66-'69 and thought the Parris Island part of the movie was great, even though the real thing was even worse.
Although I was artillery (up on the DMZ), not a grunt, I still thought the 'Nam part of the movie was a little too weird, a little too much Hollywood.
I have lunch every week with a HS classmate who was a grunt and he agrees with my assessment(s).