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How do you have a grand entrance at the Premier of your new movie if all of your principle actors are active duty US Navy SEALs?
Why... you do it this way of course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tmwBoe9_9s   
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Looks like a crappy movie.
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I'm interested to know how all these sailors got enough time off to make the movie. Did they burn all their leave to do this or were they given time off? I'm an admin dweeb and I'm really interested in how/why they were given enough time to do this.
I'm sure I would have remembered reading about time off to make movies.
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I'd assume that the movie is pretty much a long commercial for the SEALs so they were assigned to film it as part of their job. 
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Didn't know the Navy had it's own blue angels style parachute team!
ZOMG!!!!!
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Scarne posted:
I'd assume that the movie is pretty much a long commercial for the SEALs so they were assigned to film it as part of their job.
Apparently they aren't the stars and mostly being used for commercial purposes. I guess the same way as other war movies.
http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2012/02/06/act-of-valor-exploitative-opportunistic-or-just-good-clean-fun/
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Thugoneous posted:
I'm interested to know how all these sailors/special ops got enough time off to make the movie. Did they burn all their leave to do this or were they given time off? I'm an admin dweeb and I'm really interested in how/why they were given enough time to do this.
I'm sure I would have remembered reading about time off to make movies.
Asked and answered.
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Entire premise and end product looks dumb.
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SoBaKi posted:
Thugoneous posted:
I'm interested to know how all these sailors/special ops got enough time off to make the movie. Did they burn all their leave to do this or were they given time off? I'm an admin dweeb and I'm really interested in how/why they were given enough time to do this.
I'm sure I would have remembered reading about time off to make movies.
Asked and answered.
That only answers how I have 60 days of leave on the books.
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Thugoneous posted:
SoBaKi posted:
Thugoneous posted:
I'm interested to know how all these sailors/special ops got enough time off to make the movie. Did they burn all their leave to do this or were they given time off? I'm an admin dweeb and I'm really interested in how/why they were given enough time to do this.
I'm sure I would have remembered reading about time off to make movies.
Asked and answered.
That only answers how I have 60 days of leave on the books.
Well, if I have to spell it out to you, you've again answered. In your own way.
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I'm sure it will be a great movie and everything but I'd rather watch real seals killing real insurgents on liveleak. Thats where I go for my war porn. I'm not really into that fake hollywood bullsh*t.
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There isn't special rules for leave & liberty for spec ops. They get fat reenlistment bonuses and excellent promotion rates.
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Thugoneous posted:
I'm interested to know how all these sailors got enough time off to make the movie. Did they burn all their leave to do this or were they given time off?
Pretty much. It took them two years to film it because they were being deployed between shoots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDWayZvNC54
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Koneg posted:
Thugoneous posted:
I'm interested to know how all these sailors got enough time off to make the movie. Did they burn all their leave to do this or were they given time off?
Pretty much. It took them two years to film it because they were being deployed between shoots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDWayZvNC54
and yet you never here an admin dweed stick up for us when we are deployed, essentially working 24/7 for the entire fun time at sea or in the dirt.
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Admin dweebs get deployed too, nothing like what the ground forces do. What I do is take care of the sailors in my command and those who I can help outside of it. Though I did give thirty or so SEALS directions to the old executive office building last week. Each command has it's own admin dweebs with various levels of competence. I have heard the horror stories on how badly the SEALS records/pay get jacked up because of all the deployments.
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