That's a relief. It took so long for someone to mention the Ultimate Conservative '80s Movie that I was starting to think I had gotten cross-linked to Democratic Underground by mistake.
Thought you two would be interested in knowing that the director, John Milius, said that "I wanted to shake Americans up and show them what war would look like on their soil." In response to those who charge that the portrayal of teens in a war situation is unrealistic, Milius said in 1984, "I must remind them that a story exactly like this is taking place in Afghanistan every day."