Gunny Highway v. The Swede

The life and times of Gunny Highway.

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• USMC

[ScoonyBoy]

"Mr. Jones...you fall out on that street, or I'm gonna kick your ass right off this fuckin' planet." Clint Eastwood FTW.

[AmericanWarrior1776]

All this play war stuff is bullshit!

[DanGan808]

Swede! Swede!

[haydenshut]

@Originalman320 That's a shame. He was a funny, talented guy. All over the 80's movies. It was good that he found his character nitche in Hollywood (;

[DukeNukenum]

@AmericanWarrior1776 Sooo, is that a quote from Clint Eastwood, or do you just not like war movies?

[Originalman320]

@haydenshut Sadly, Tom Villard (Pvt. Profile) passed away some years ago from AIDS.

[brawnthehulk]

What ever happen to that pre Damon Wayons guy? I forget his name. He was a household name before Wesley Snipes, Denzel, and Will Smith made it big. Wasn't his name Mario Van Peeples? He fell off the earth. Maybe he was Millie or Vanilli?

[Jurassic0Al]

@GGGeoff- You know what you're talking about, that's for certain. Do you have any past or present affiliation with the Marines? My guess is yes, but you would know.

Regardless, I have seen this movie and recall that Swede was hardly a model Marine prior to this incident. But I think the idea with this movie was that the entire platoon, Swede included, would ultimately shape up under Gunnery Sergeant Highway's leadership.

[GGGeoff]

@Jurassic0Al First of all, this is a movie and is a highly fictionalized account of the training of U.S. Marines. But that being said, if you watch the movie in its entirerty, Swede wasn't in the first half because he was already locked up in the brig. They talked about him several times but this was the first time we saw him. In real life, someone like this obviously isn't learning and needs to be dishonerably discharged. Someone like that isn't someone the Marine Corps wants representing them.

[classique46]

God I love Clint Eastwood!!