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Cree Warrior
10 April 2001, 00:06
This board is getting kinda stale, so I thought I'd heat things up a bit.
My theory is that Rambo was an excellent soldier, for numerous reasons:
1) He was a definite force multiplier, no need to discuss how many enemy troops (police) he took away from other duties. A fundamental role for SF.
2) He drove on, no matter how smoked, damaged or messed up!
3) He was trained in every weapon immaginable, and could change magazines so fast, most 'untrained' civilians would not even notice.
4) He fought to 'free the oppressed', especially in Hope, BC. Where the town was run by a dictator and controlled by an evil security force.
5) He had very good improvisational skills and could make a field expediant anything.
6) He instilled fear in his adversaries, enabling him to accomplish tasks normally only attainable by a Bn of men.
7) He was an excellent recruiting tool. I'm sure after his heroics were immortalized waves of young recruits joined the army trying to be like him.
8) Contrary to popular belief he was not a boistrous, obnoxious, arrogant, aggressive criminal, he was mearly a veteran, trying to go his own way in life.
Some may say that Rambo types are not needed in the military, I say we need more of them, bring em on!

heh heh

Sua Sponte

Cole
10 April 2001, 14:07
...And he was damn sexy to boot! (I wonder if I would be allowed to go on an Ex with no shirt and a red bandana?)

MADMIK
10 April 2001, 15:11
There was a John Rambo who was killed in 'Nam

Soldier of Fortune
10 April 2001, 17:07
Who's Rambo (is he canadian?), should I have heard of him?
Sorry if I sound stupid.

Cole
10 April 2001, 23:13
Am I really getting that old! Youngster, go to the movie store and ask...

Jeff Rambo
10 April 2001, 23:32
And you call yourself a Soldier of Fortune?

Secondly, when you want to talk about the *real* Rambo, feel free to e-mail me and I will send you some intel on CSM Rambo from the closest end of the horse you will manage to get near.

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Sincerely,
Jeff Rambo
SOCNET Administrator
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jrambo@specialoperations.com

Daredevil
11 April 2001, 12:08
I actually read the book "First Blood" by David Morrell. It's not that bad actually. It differed in some key things from the movie. The book's Rambo wasn't so much the tortured hero as he was just plain pissed off at the Sheriff. The movie made Rambo seem more passive in the beginning and the Sheriff a lot more aggressive. In the book Rambo provoked them quite a bit and the Sheriff wasn't that big of a jerk. And the part where they all chase him? He didn't just wound them, he took them out.

It also took place in Kentucky, not the Pacific Northwest.

The ending was very different as well. Not the emotional breakdown that has since inspired decades of phonies and wannabes.

What's funny is that the book "Stolen Valor" credits the film First Blood with the huge wannabe phenomenon we have in this country. Suddenly every failed loser claims he was in some SOF in Nam and is so distraught he can't function.

Contrary to popular belief, Stallone did not write the movie.

[This message has been edited by Daredevil (edited 04-11-2001).]

enderr
11 April 2001, 16:51
....SUPER-LIFER!!!

Quimby
13 April 2001, 09:01
Enderr, what in the hell does that mean? If you can't reply in a coherent manner, which I am now doing pissed out of my tree, then don't bother. Both Jeff Rambo and Daredevil have managed to add something to the topic. Are you some sort of shitpump who doesn't understand rational discourse?
Rambo may or may not be the ultimate soldier, but the character got alot of us who grew up in the 80's to join the military and find out the truth for ourselves.

p.s Soldier of Fortune, you are stupid.

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An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

Paintman
13 April 2001, 09:55
Well, me thinks Cree Warrior's mission to heat up the board succeeded!

garett
13 April 2001, 12:27
I wouldn't say that Rambo had too much of an effect on getting me to join. What did for sure is G.I. Joes and Sgt. Rock comics. Also growing up watching things on tv like footage from the Falklands, Panama, Desert Storm, and Yugo. Oh course growing up down the road from CFB Gagetown, having my windows virbate from the arty rounds and Armed Forces Days had an impact. But its mostly the G.I. Joes.
"Knowing is half the battle" or whatever that was.

Disturbance
13 April 2001, 16:52
soldier of fortune is like 14 or something......he aint gonna be the brightest brick on the wall