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Posted: 8/25/2013 4:49:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: good actor. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Audie Murphy good actor. He was in the Army before he was an actor? Huh. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 4:52:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/07/14/d0/0714d0a3bf36c6189d5ac407cc836ce9.jpg That's not Bill Cosby. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 5:01:16 PM EDT
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Bea Arthur Union or Confederate? |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 5:01:59 PM EDT
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Walter Matthau - B-24 radio operator/gunner Loved that guy! |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 5:02:56 PM EDT
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Jamey Johnson......USMC
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Posted: 8/25/2013 5:04:02 PM EDT
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I dont know about some of those other guys but Jimmy Hendrix shouldn't be stinking up the same page as Jimmy Stewart and Audie Murphy with his section 8 ass.  |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 5:04:31 PM EDT
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I came here to post about Maxwell Smart. I have a hard time seeing him as a DI.
Dirtbag Recruit: Screw you Drill Sergeant. I'm not doing any push ups. Don Adams: I'm gonna snuff your soul out. Dirtbag Recruit: I don't believe you. Don Adams: Would you believe I'll smack you in the arm with a lollipop. Yeah...I suck at writing comedy |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 5:24:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:00:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:03:16 PM EDT
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Director John Ford retired as a Rear Admiral in the Navy Reserve. He was also wounded at the Battle of Midway and filmed the storming of the beaches at Normandy. Unfortunately, the footage of the latter seems to be lost.
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:09:20 PM EDT
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Ba Aurther, yes the leftist hard core liberal, was one of the first female marines
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:10:39 PM EDT
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George Gobel, pilot instructor on B-26 bombers.
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:11:41 PM EDT
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What!??!???!!??!! No way was Ice-T a Ranger I think someone got confused between the real Ice-T and the character he plays on SVU. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:13:22 PM EDT
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In the Rock and Roll category, we have Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones.
Royal Air Force. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:16:22 PM EDT
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Lotta WW2 service there
Wonder how many of todays young actors would even consider rushing to enlist if the nation was at war Obviously these guys in many cases served in the military long before their professional acting careers, but you know what I mean. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:24:16 PM EDT
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Thats true but look at how many were WWII vets. We havent had a war on that scale since then. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That list tells a lot, not many actors alive or under 50 on it... Thats true but look at how many were WWII vets. We havent had a war on that scale since then. Not to sound like a jerk, but while we haven't had combat operations on the scale of WWII I am a Master Sergeant. We have been at war every single day I have ever been in the military. To say there has been plenty of time for plenty of young people to be on that list is an understatement even if their service was not glorious. The age of the people on that list is very telling. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:28:19 PM EDT
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Just wait. We still have a lot of people fighting overseas. Some of them will make it big in Hollywood.
Perhaps a future president or two is in Iraq or Afghanistan right now too. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:37:32 PM EDT
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Just wait. We still have a lot of people fighting overseas. Some of them will make it big in Hollywood. Perhaps a future president or two is in Iraq or Afghanistan right now too. lol, stars of the big L, is more like it. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:39:48 PM EDT
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Jeff Bridges
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:44:36 PM EDT
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Mel Brooks
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:51:21 PM EDT
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Drew Carey had more hair as a Marine than as a comedian! 
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:53:31 PM EDT
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Dennis Franz (NYPD Blue)
Bill Cosby Kirk Douglas Tom Selleck Don Rickles Pat Sajak Tony Bennett
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Posted: 8/25/2013 6:59:05 PM EDT
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Tom Landry
 and this guy, Rocky Bleier- played for the Steelers, got drafted- shot in the ass, then a grenade went off between his feet taking a big chunk out of his leg and then he goes back to play for the Steelers for 8 more years. How's that? (for you shitheads that look down on draftees)  |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:04:55 PM EDT
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They forgot Jack Webb
Okay, so he washed out of flight school. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:10:07 PM EDT
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OP didn't specify which military. 
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:11:49 PM EDT
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Carlin
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:13:48 PM EDT
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He was in the Army before he was an actor? Huh. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Audie Murphy good actor. He was in the Army before he was an actor? Huh. I'm guessing this is sarcasm. Audie Murphy was a bad som bitch. I believe he received over 30 medals. The accounts of his actions in combat are nothing short of amazing. 100% STUD! |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:16:44 PM EDT
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Kris Kristopherson - Army Officer, pilot, offered teaching position at West Point. Left after screwing a guy's wife. They didnt mention that on wiki. :) I watched his biography on A&E, a long time ago, and it claimed that he quit because they had him teaching and refused to give him a combat tour. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:18:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:24:18 PM EDT
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George Kennedy.
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:28:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:33:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryYep. Air force IIRC. Also both Art Bell and George Nory. |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:39:44 PM EDT
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Quote Historyi had to look that up 
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:40:11 PM EDT
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Steve McQueen.
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:43:50 PM EDT
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John McCain-Navy-Vietnam
Oliver Stone-Army-Vietnam (Movie director) Roger Staubach- Navy- Vietnam (Dallas Cowboys) Pat Zajac-Army-Vietnam, Army DJ (Wheel of fortune) Dennis Franz-Army Airborne-Vietnam (NYPD Blue TV series) Steve Kanaly- Army Air Cav-Vietnam (Dallas TV series, several movies The Wind And The Lion) |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:45:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2013 7:59:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Christopher Lee http://wlmager.tumblr.com/post/42350397080/christopher-lee-the-real-james-bond-i-was Count Dooku was SAS?! Who dares wins wankers! |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 8:00:03 PM EDT
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A bit more on Eddie Albert. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Albert#Military Prior to World War II, and before his film career, Albert had toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors.[4] On September 9, 1942, Albert enlisted in the United States Navy and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November 1943, when, as the pilot of a U.S. Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.[5] |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 8:08:53 PM EDT
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Look at the people on that list and what they did during WWII. Some tough SOBs on that list, given what they went through. Historically bloody invasions, kamikaze attacks, flying missions in the worst flak alleys known, getting shot down, being spies behind enemy lines with sure death if exposed (Julia Childs, Josephine Baker). Those folks truly were the greatest generation.
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Posted: 8/25/2013 8:09:23 PM EDT
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wow clark gable was a badass.
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Posted: 8/25/2013 8:13:31 PM EDT
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Christopher Lee has an interesting past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_lee#Service_in_World_War_II Initially, Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces during the Winter War in 1939. He and other British volunteers were kept away from actual fighting, but he was issued winter gear and was posted on guard duty a safe distance from the front lines. He went on to serve in the Royal Air Force and intelligence services during World War II, including serving as an intelligence officer with the Long Range Desert Group in Northern Africa. He trained in South Africa as a pilot, but eyesight problems forced him to drop out. He eventually ended up stationed in North Africa as a Cipher Officer for No. 260 Squadron RAF and was with it through the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. He has mentioned serving in Special Operations Executive[17] but has always declined to go into details. “ I was attached to the SAS from time to time but we are forbidden – former, present, or future – to discuss any specific operations. Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read in to that what they like.[18] ” |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 9:50:08 PM EDT
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We did this in 2006.
Military Channel: Celebrities in Uniform http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=509535 |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 9:51:02 PM EDT
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And in May of this year.
5 celebrity's who were badasses http://www.ak47.net/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1489235 |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 11:28:57 PM EDT
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That list tells a lot, not many actors alive or under 50 on it... Exactly what I thought of as well |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 11:42:31 PM EDT
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J. Kenneth Campbell 
Ed Bishop 
Basil Rathbone ____________________________________________________________________________________ ("Why does he call you Captain?"--Edith "We....served together."--Kirk, (w,stte), ST:TOS, "The City on the Edge of Forever") |
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Posted: 8/25/2013 11:56:01 PM EDT
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Lotta WW2 service there Wonder how many of todays young actors would even consider rushing to enlist if the nation was at warObviously these guys in many cases served in the military long before their professional acting careers, but you know what I mean. They have had 10+ years... There was the football player (professional) killed in Afg. IIRC, by friendly fire 
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Posted: 8/25/2013 11:58:33 PM EDT
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They have had 10+ years... There was the football player (professional) killed in Afg. IIRC, by friendly fire Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Lotta WW2 service there Wonder how many of todays young actors would even consider rushing to enlist if the nation was at warObviously these guys in many cases served in the military long before their professional acting careers, but you know what I mean. They have had 10+ years... There was the football player (professional) killed in Afg. IIRC, by friendly fire 
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Posted: 8/26/2013 12:08:07 AM EDT
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That list tells a lot, not many actors alive or under 50 on it... Yeah, I was noticing that as well. But check this shocker (to me, anyway) out. 
Mel Brooks served in the U.S. Army in WW II as a combat engineer. His main job was to deactivate land mines. Now this next one comes as no surprise to me, on any counts. McQueen always struck me as a bit of a rebel. 
Terrence S. “Steve” McQueen (1930-1980) PFC. U.S. Marine Corps 1947-50. He joined the Marines and was assigned to an armored unit but was rebellious and was demoted to PVT seven times. While serving on an Arctic exercise he saved the lives of 5 other Marines by pulling them from a tank before it broke through the ice and sank into the sea. |
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Posted: 8/26/2013 12:09:30 AM EDT
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They have had 10+ years... There was the football player (professional) killed in Afg. IIRC, by friendly fire Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Lotta WW2 service there Wonder how many of todays young actors would even consider rushing to enlist if the nation was at warObviously these guys in many cases served in the military long before their professional acting careers, but you know what I mean. They have had 10+ years... There was the football player (professional) killed in Afg. IIRC, by friendly fire That was Pat Tillman. Glenn Coffee walked away from the NFL to join the Army. |
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Posted: 8/26/2013 12:40:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryCoastie Dude. Arnold Palmer was also a Coastie if I recall correctly. |
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