11-07-2003, 07:16 PM
Sorry that I'm late picking up on this. It is truly amazing how that program gets their U.S. uniforms so accurately portrayed and even to how they should be worn, and fails so dismally as soon as a foreign officer enters. Of course, they have a U.S. navy/marine advisor present at all times (for P.R purposes, once supposes - in exchange for access to the ships and planes).
They had one episode where a post-Soviet senior naval officer arrived on a U.S. ship in the Adriatic to complain about a U.S. aircraft that had shot up a column of Russian peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia. To visit the U.S. carrier to protest he was wearing a Soviet white parade uniform with a brocade belt on!
Well, nothing much has changed in Hollywood. Foreign uniforms just have to look foreign and that seems to make everyone happy, including the U.S. navy advisor.
Dr. Bob
They had one episode where a post-Soviet senior naval officer arrived on a U.S. ship in the Adriatic to complain about a U.S. aircraft that had shot up a column of Russian peacekeepers in the former Yugoslavia. To visit the U.S. carrier to protest he was wearing a Soviet white parade uniform with a brocade belt on!
Well, nothing much has changed in Hollywood. Foreign uniforms just have to look foreign and that seems to make everyone happy, including the U.S. navy advisor.
Dr. Bob
