Your Favorite Military TV series? - VANITY

[FlatLandBeer]

Ok this is a FRIDAY VANITY post.... What were some of your favorite Military oriented tv shows?

Go back as far as you like.

Mine are: Steve Canyon, 12 O'clock High, Rat Patrol & Combat.

Comedys are ok too.... MASH, Phil Silvers, McHale's Navy...

[chimera]

I second "Victory At Sea". Real history always beats staged history.

[Armigerous]

Lockwood....not.Lockhard

[GAB-1955]

"12 O'Clock High," I am proud to say, showed as a stock shot the crash landing of a B-17F flown by my uncle, Robert S. Webb. Uncle Bob was the youngest bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps. He flew 55 straight missions over Italy and Germany during the War and won the Distinguished Flying Cross with 7 oak leaf clusters.

He was a kind and God-loving man, who always prayed that his bombs would not hit "innocent" people, but was not a softy. After the War, when he worked for the Virginia Electric Power Company, he was at a trade fair when he saw a German company displaying ovens. His comment to the salesman was "Yeah, you Germans are VERY good at making ovens."

I miss him so much, and I look forward to seeing him in Heaven. His mortal remains are at Arlington Cemetery.

[sargunner]

Connors also played for the Boston Celtics prior to playing baseball.

[The_Republican]

Cheers
Seinfeld
Married With Children
King of the Hill
Conana O' Brien

[Recovering Hermit]

"Operation Petticoat", or course.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Dana

[Zuben Elgenubi]

"Connors also played for the Boston Celtics prior to playing baseball.

I did not know that. He was great in the Rifleman also.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"The Rat Patrol" 1966-1968.

[shield]

BAND OF BROTHERS

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ya beat me to it. Great series.

[BlueStateDepression]

That picture makes me think of Gomer with a bucket on his head singing "From the halls of montezuuuuuuuma to the shores of tripoliiiiiiiii......"

[Wilum]

You're right and it lasted three seasons; Tour of Duty - 1987-1990. Good show.

[Wolfstar]

As the years go by, MASH becomes more and more of an embarrassment. The earlier episodes were vicious anti-military diatribes. The later episodes were silly, stale drivel.

[Chode]

Gallent Men.

[Beanhead40]

Current Series on CMT American Soldier

[stumpy]

Victory at Sea.

[Hoodlum91]

"China Beach?
The one with the CSI chick, right?"

Yup, she played a hooker.

But that was on for several seasons, so I don't think it's the right one.

[A.A. Cunningham]

China Beach

[CoolChange]

China Beach was the Kim Delany one but Tour of Duty had David Keith in it I think