"The Sands of Iwo Jima" was close to the reality of war? You are joking right? The Marine Corps used to show that movie every weekend during Infantry Training and we all whooped it up. After Viet Nam we didn't whoop it up so much. Pure unadulterated BS. All movies are for entertainment and should be taken as such. Factual recreations are best left to the History channel.

As far as sneak attacks go - try sitting in an ambush position for four or five hours waiting for the "enemy" to come by. Kill all of those that come into the damn thing and you'll understand what sneak attack really is. It's a method to kill those who would kill you - only to do it first.

In Viet Nam a common saying was, "Some days you count the meat and some days the meat counts you."

I'm with Little Hawk, to hell with war. I do my best to not support it in any form that I can. I've only seen one movie based on it in the past 35+ years. That is my quiet little rebellion.