[Godebert]

"More than 600 California Army and Air Guardsmen will have supporting roles in the Vietnam era movie..."

This might hurt the realism of the film.....as is apparent from the photo, the soldiers look like National Guardsmen.

[leadpenny]

the soldiers look like National Guardsmen

I'm not sure what a National Guardsman is supposed to look like, but there were a lot of them who volunteered for Nam. If it is the uniform you are referring too, in 65 most American soldiers were still wearing the old HBT fatigues. In fact, I deployed in Jan67 and we didn't get Jungle fatigues until we arrived in country.

[Alas]

This might hurt the realism of the film.....as is apparent from the photo, the soldiers look like National Guardsmen.

But, it may help them, by giving them some kind of idea of what war is really like, especially one being fought on two fronts, the one around you and the one at home.

Once this film is released, I would be most interested in hearing from true vets who saw action in Nam. I do pray this film will be more in line with the truth, and I do apologize for sounding doubtful, but, I have yet to see a film about subs, attack or boomers, that came even close to being anything other than an out and out lie.

Nukem

[Snow Bunny]

My fingers are crossed and I am hoping and praying this film will show the Jane Fonda's of this world how wrong they were and are, that they will see how wonderfully brave those that served America truly were and are .

Thank you for your post and thoughts about it. Let's hope it will all come together and be the important film it should be to honor those men and those that wrote the book. Thanks again.