>I have seen GI Jane twice, and my understanding is that they were on their way
>to a training mission when this situation arose in Libya. Although it started
>as a the last training exercise, operational deployment, it ended up being a
>real situation. The command master chief was asked if his trainees could
>handle a REAL situation because they were the only group close enough to
>respond at the time. Whether this situation is realistic or not, I don't know
>(the Navy denies that it would ever use trainees in this situation), but
>questioning the realism of whether the SEALS would kill and destroy in a
>foreign country on a training mission is inaccurate, as this was suddenly NOT
>training, but real. Thus they were acting as any actual SEAL team would act
>when detected in hostile territory and attacked.
I thought it was a good movie, and Demi Moore did a much better job than I
expected. I don't understand how the fact that she was attractive made her
ineligible to look tough. I was convinced of her mental and physical
strength.
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