I've been waiting since the late 1980s to finally get to see this movie all the way through. Seriously! So, I finally broke down and bought a DVD of it on Amazon.
This review MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS so beware!
Overall, an OK flick. Pretty good B-52 and KC-135 shots. And, from what I've ever been told, the non-flying scenes were pretty representative of the "walking on eggshells" all the time environment of SAC during the LeMay days (early 1960s Cold War days).
It certainly wasn't hard to despise the harda** Caldwell was rapidly becoming turning the Wing around. It wasn't hard to sympathize with the underlings who were pouring themselves into their jobs only to get chastized by Caldwell for doing it.
I thought it was hilarious that the guy with 6 stripes in the command post was supposedly going thru his first ORI. From what I'm given to understand ORIs were a part of life at every level in SAC, so there's no way an Operations Master Sergeant would've never gone thru one before that level of rank. But, that's Hollywood for ya.
This review MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS so beware!
Overall, an OK flick. Pretty good B-52 and KC-135 shots. And, from what I've ever been told, the non-flying scenes were pretty representative of the "walking on eggshells" all the time environment of SAC during the LeMay days (early 1960s Cold War days).
It certainly wasn't hard to despise the harda** Caldwell was rapidly becoming turning the Wing around. It wasn't hard to sympathize with the underlings who were pouring themselves into their jobs only to get chastized by Caldwell for doing it.
I thought it was hilarious that the guy with 6 stripes in the command post was supposedly going thru his first ORI. From what I'm given to understand ORIs were a part of life at every level in SAC, so there's no way an Operations Master Sergeant would've never gone thru one before that level of rank. But, that's Hollywood for ya.