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Morgan Nicolas

Fantastic show that doesn't hold your hand. I'd almost suggest you watch and film the whole series in one shot so you remember the names of people and events.

Wayne Polk

After finishing, Band of Brothers, you guys should react to the show, The Pacific. It's the follow up to Band of Brothers. Same war but it focuses on a different military campaign that took place in Asia. The Pacific focuses on the US Marines battling against the Japanese during WWII

Anonymous

How often are you posting these episodes?

asiaandbj

We are going to try to do it every other day. As long as everything works out right.

jason

Both of my Grandpa's served in WW2. My Dad and Uncle were in Vietnam. My Brother was in the Navy, I was in the USMC reserves. My nephew is now in the Navy. So yep. Military family here too.

Anonymous

This is one of my favorite mini series to watch. Thank you for doing this. I won’t spoil anything but you should be aware that episodes 7 and 9 are the toughest to watch.

Kevin

So glad you two are watching this. The old men speaking at the beginning of the show are the real men the actors are portraying. Be great to see if you guys can guess which is which lol Also, theses guys were the beginning wave of D-Day. Their mission is to jump behind enemy lines and attack the Nazi's so the troops that are storming the beach would not have so strong of an enemy force to fight.(which Saving Private Ryan protrayed. If you remember from that movie, is that most of the troops that landed on beaches from the Navy boats landed on beaches that were not assigned to them. It was complete and utter chaos)

Anonymous

I never got around to watching this, so now I will be for the first time with you, A & B!

Alicia

I keep meaning to watch this show as one of my favorite actors, Andrew Scott, was in this show in his very early acting days. Might as well start it with you guys 😊

Anonymous

When I saw David Schwimmer in the opening credits I was dubious, but then pleasantly surprised at this performance. I'm wondering if his character will resurface later in the series.

Terrie Calabrese

This is one of my favorite series...Band of Brothers. I try to watch it around Memorial Day, when I can. Now I get to watch with you.

Kaleipakalani Cruz

A lot of things went over your head lol. In the military you have enlisted and officers. Enlisted show up to the recruiter's office and get sent to basic training. Officers typically go through college and get assigned as leaders. Sometimes they let their rank go to their heads even though they don't have any experience in the field. That's where most of the frustration you are seeing is coming from. LT getting lost is a very common trope and one that's commonly joked about. In the training scene, they showed a class on declination. Fun fact, compasses don't really point north. They point to a giant metal deposit buried in Canada. Because we're south of Canada it's north for us but depending on where you are in the world, it's a little off. Declination is how much of a difference from the deposit to the north pole. Magnetic north to grid north. (If you look at a map the longitude lines run from the north pole.) True north is following the north star. The diamond rank is first sergeant. He's kind of the right-hand man to the commander and the highest-ranking enlisted in a company. The beginning scene when LT (at the time) was critiquing the platoon kind of threw me off. Maybe it's a different time different world but you normally don't see officers harping on enlisted - not their lane. If an officer has a problem with an enlisted they will typically pass it off to their NCO. In this case, you have a commander who is very micromanaging and an apparently absent first sergeant seeing as we literally only see him in one scene. The scene when the NCOs walked out and the reassignment is very real. We have a saying, "They don't think their shit smells." Sometimes, you have to let them know which is basically what they did when they turned in their stripes. If a soldier is a problem sometimes the best thing is to put them out to pasture.

Logan Nelson

I think the officers are in charge like that due to the fact that it's a brand new unit and they are going to be staying together through the war... Maybe?!?!

Kaleipakalani Cruz

The NCO Corps was established in 1775 - the same time the army was founded. We're commonly referred to as the "backbone of the army" and our job is to execute the commander's intent. If the commander is overstepping he's making his NCOs ineffective. That group that was trying to turn in there stripes- all NCOs requesting to have their NCO status stripped from them. That's actually quite a protest. Also, where the hell was top. Dude shows up for all of 5 seconds to relay a message then disappears? What is he doing?

Rich

Gotta watch this every year. Fitting day.