Television
HBO Flies Military Veterans To Washington To Celebrate "The Pacific"For once, I will be lying if I said I wasn't excited about HBO's upcoming and highly anticipated documentary/miniseries entitled "The Pacific". Kate Stanhope of Seattlepi.com (via the Associated Press) recently announced that HBO will be footing the bill for up to 250 military veterans to visit World War II memorial in Washington next week. |
Tom Hanks Arrives At the National WWII Museum For "The Pacific" ScreeningExecutive producer of HBO's new (and much awaited) 10-part miniseries "The Pacific", Tom Hanks arrived at the National World War II Museum for his film screening today, as reported by Huffingtonpost.com. For the film, Hanks also teamed up with award winning director and producer Steven Spielberg on the documentary. "The Pacific" tells the tale of three U.S. |
Cambodia Prime Minister Threatens To Shutdown Military Owned TV StationsA few days ago, an announcement was made by Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen which stated that all television stations that are part-owned by the country's military will be closed down. The reason behind this threat is due to the lack of sufficient army-related material being broadcast throughout the country. |
Big Win For U.S. Army Recruiter On "Wheel Of Fortune"Surely we've all heard and participated at "viewing parties" for the Olympics, Super Bowl, Basketball, Tennis or Ice Hockey. Now how about throwing a huge viewing party for infamous TV game show "Wheel of Fortune"? Dublin resident and Army recruiter Sgt. Travis Craven and his group of friends and families certainly did. |
Obama's Executive Order To His Children: TV Only Allowed On WeekendsDid you know that U.S. President Barack Obama only allows his children - Malia and Sasha Obama - to watch TVs on the weekends? There is certainly no way to watch TV during the week. Tom Henderson of Parentdish.com wrote, "Their father, the leader of the free world, exercised what many tweens would consider an abuse of executive authority. He decreed no TV during the week. Only weekends." |
HBO's "The Pacific" Vs. "Band Of Brothers": Different WWII PerspectivesSet to premiere on the HBO network, "The Pacific" will be aired on March 14th, 2010. Helmed by executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, one cannot be too curious to ask the distinction/similarity the film will have in regards to "Band of Brothers", where both depict the account of past WWII battles. |
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Oliver Stone's Controversial Documentary Aims To Put Historical Figures "Into Context"Oliver Stone's upcoming 10-part documentary series entitled "Secret History of America" for Showtime will focus on historical events that "at the time went under-reported, but crucially shaped America's unique and complex history of the last 60 years." However, it's Stone's views and debates over the documentary’s content have sparked huge controversy. |
Note To Soldiers: You Can Make A Movie, Safe A Life And Win $2000Sponsored by the U.S. Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center and the Army Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers (BOSS) program, Peer to Peer competition will be challenging all soldiers to create their own version of "Peer Safety Video." Prices are also offered up to $4000. |
Military Channel Announces The Premiere Of "Mission Demolition's" Third EpisodeCreative Street Entertainment and Military Channel recently announced the launch of the third episode of their television series titled "Mission Demolition - Inside the US Army Sapper School" set to premiere on February 2nd. Produced by Creative Street production, all of their three episodes will be shown back-to-back at 8:00 pm EST. |
Spartacus: Blood And Sand: "Raciest Of TV's MidSeason Entries"Making its official debut on January 22, 2010 at 9 p.m., new Starz series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" can easily be called the "raciest of TV's midseason entries," Jeanne Jakle for the San Antonio Express-News reported. Producing team for the series include "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert (collaborator with Raimi on shows such as "Xena" to "Evil Dead"), and also writer Steven S. |
Chavez Demands Filmmakers To Make "Socialist" Soap OperasVenezuela's president Hugo Chavez has recently demanded film makers in the nation to start making more socialist soap operas on television, after observing an interesting trend on TV after a previous trip to Cuba. He said that Cuban soap operas have socialist themes which he admired. He despises soap operas with capitalistic themes by claiming them to be evil. |
"NCIS" TV Series Helps Strengthen Navy's ImageProducers of "NCIS" understand that military-based television drama will always have good ratings, which will in turn shine a positive light over the U.S. Navy. Stuntmen, cameramen, actors, directors, sound techs, makeup artists, gaffers and producers all have their share of making sure that "NCIS" appears to be as realistic as possible. A lot of planning is involved in making an episode. |
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Sapper Crapper
No doubt this is a very hard course but these guys are not used for there intended purpose. In fact there not Explosives experts at all. They do have moderate training in demo but its sub-standard compared to the true explosive experts (EOD). They handle ten times if not more explosives than the engineers, not US but foreign as well. This downed pilot theory is BS as well, Sappers don't do that job, Rangers, Seals or any other type of SOCOM entity will take care of that as well (sometimes Pathfinder elements too). A prime example of that was the downed F15 in Afghanistan in 2009. Guess what? no sappers were there. Sappers anymore or combat engineers are infantry with basic demo training or they are spear heading route clearance operations. As for demolitions experts, kudos to them but when was the last time they really did any of that. You know those bridges that were blown up? You got it, not Sappers but Air Force pilots dropping bombs before any Sapper gets close. Indeed a hard course and respect the individuals that go through it but tired of them of "chruchin it up" as stated in Joe dirt. Unfortunately there job is slowly becoming out dated. This should be an interesting show non the less.
Engineer Attitude
I believe sapper crapper needs to learn how to spell first of all. Sappers are the elite of the engineer corps. They have been around for many years and will be around for many to come. Obviously the many stories of sappers blowing up weapon caches and kicking in doors with the rangers hasnt passed many peoples ears. But the truth is, the training they are doing on the show in not always the situation they will find themselves in. I agree with that, but the stressful environment and rigorous situations that you must endure during this high speed training is what our tough leaders of today are born. The combat engineer is one of the armys jack of all trades. He uses demo when needed, sets up bridging operations, calculates time and material for setting up and taking out obstacles and etc. These sapper leaders are the soldiers added to spec ops teams when they are short for a mission. They will gladly pick up a sapper than some average infintry soldier. That is why sappers must be prepared for all situations. Engineers in general are relied upon just as much as the medics. That is why it has always been said Engineers Lead The Way!