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Last Flag Flying (2017)
Should have done their homework
First the Lt. Colonel should have been in his dress blue uniform, if his men were in their dress blue uniforms, at the Dover hanger scene.
Second when Staff Sargent Sal starts having a discussion, where he wants to put down the Lt. Colonel, any enlisted man knows these officers like to be called Colonel and not Lieutenant Colonel, so Sal should have addressed him as Lieutenant Colonel, his correct rank.
In the military there are 3 places where officers are addressed by a higher rank, than they actually have.
First no one calls a 2nd Lieutenant 2nd Lieutenant or in the Navy no one calls a Lieutenant Junior Grade Lieutenant Junior Grade, these ranks get upgraded to Lieutenant.
Second same courtesy as 05's go from Lieutenant Commander or Lieutenant Colonel to Commander and Colonel.
Third when an officer gets his her First Star (Flag grade) they do not want to be called Sir or Mam anymore, they want to hear Yes Admiral or Yes General. And no one in their right mind is going to address a 1 star Admiral by using their official title. "Admiral lower Half, Chief Robinson reporting for duty."
Be My Little General
Brigadier
Major
Lieutenant
General.
Navy Rear Admiral Lower half (1 star)
Rear Admiral Upper Half (2 stars)
Vice Admiral (3 stars)
Admiral (4 stars).
When Sal went to rent the truck, how come he didn't give the reverend the keys to his car, or if the reverend could not drive because of his bum leg, he should have taken Doc with him so that after renting the truck, they both could drive back to the Air base and the Rev could have ridden in the truck with Sal or the car with Doc and not try to take a bus home. Sal just leaves his car in Delaware?
And last but not least, when the Marine was sitting around in the train's cargo compartment, and the 3 older vets go back to talk with him, you see the young Marine sitting on Doc's son's boxed casket, never, never, never would have happened.
Generation Gap (2008)
military honors at a funeral wrong
We get to meet ed Asner's character when his grandson from New York is sent to spend the Summer with him because he needs to have some discipline in his life. Bart is a regular guy in a small town, and everyone knows him and his V. F. W. buddies know him best and respect him as a fellow soldier who retired with honor to continue his life in his home town. Bart teaches his grandson about how to be a man to take responsibility, to be respectful of others. When Ed Asner's funeral is taking place his daughter is given the folded flag by a Sergent Major of the Marine Corps. Ed Asner was a colonel in his Marine days, so military etiquette requires that someone of similar rank or higher present the flag to the family. It should have been a Colonel or General that did this.