Did this movie go straight to DVD? Was it for DNC consumption? I was awol a couple of times, it didn’t stop me from succeeding in my career. All I got was a no weekend pass and restriction to quarters. However the XO slipped me my pass when the CO left for the weekend. OMG, if I ran as a Republican and the DNC found that out, I’d never win the election. LOL. So simple minded news people, how did they ever get those jobs? No one ever brings up the fact that Nixon cut short the NG obligation or the fact that ETs could be performed at any other Guard Unit for attendance purposes, if they are not within their units home station. There is also make up drills, where a member can report to his unit on a day not listed as a drill date. Too make a movie out of this and eliminating the real facts just makes it a propaganda film for dupes.
I don’t go to the movies but Robert Redford was the cover of the Wall Street Journal quarterly magazine and I have seen other high profile stories about him recently, so I think that this movie mattered a lot of the leftist controlled media.