The ‘Greatest Beer Run Ever’ is getting a war movie made about it

Task and Purpose ^ | APRIL 02, 2021 | DAVID ROZA

[BeauBo]

“He was in a combat zone and here he is walking around like he’s going on a golf outing or wherever the hell he’s going,” Collins said in a 2015 video about the beer run made by Pabst Blue Ribbon. “We got drunk, needless to say.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WAUmyKDq0 (13 min documentary of their 2015 reunion)

[butlerweave]

The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell (1968)

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=jQM9JSux3Ew&feature=emb_logo

[Spacetrucker]

Russel Crowe? No thanks, I’ll pass.

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIzCpvcf6Po

[RandallFlagg]

‘Greatest Beer Run Ever’

Smokey and the Bandit?

[mylife]

every asshole skipper I ever had started a rumor that somewhere on board was stowed a great stash of beer and when we came off mission we all got some cold ones...

It never happened

[mylife]

then, just to get away from assholes on the submarine, I would go far out in the desert with 2 cases of beer alone.... and sit and think...

[martin_fierro]

Actors Russell Crowe ... in talks to star in the picture

Beer Run movie? Crowe's a natural!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

LOL. I was just thinking of the same movie. Saw it way back then at the base theater.

[BeauBo]

“a rumor that somewhere on board was stowed a great stash of beer and when we came off mission we all got some cold ones...”

I never received the free beer that my Recruiter told me about either...

I’m starting to see a pattern.

[mylife]

Yessir.. we was snookered!

[GreyHoundSailor]

We had a ‘welcome aboard’ beer when we arrived at the German sub, and a farewell beer when we departed.

[dfwgator]

He doesn’t look like he’s “fightin’ round the world” anymore.

[Nateman]

...somewhere on board was stowed a great stash of beer ...

The Skipper on my sub let us buy Rum and stow it in a torpedo tube until we got home

[mylife]

I still remember her “cecilia vessella” she lied up and down

[mylife]

most navy’s do, ours does not.

[mylife]

hell they stole my film.

[GreyHoundSailor]

We’d cross-deck Sailors between our ship and the UK, German and Dutch ships. They had a great time.

[Roccus]

I heard/read about this escapade several decades ago.
Can’t remember when exactly or where, but I’d heard this story before.