It's amazing that a show like NCIS could be on for as it has, seemingly without ever having any idea what NCIS actually does. In real life, half the cases they show would be outside of their jurisdiction. Their job is to enforce UCMJ among Naval personnel. Just because a crime involves a sailor doesn't make it…

it's hard to gauge where the politics of NCIS stand at this point, if you think about it. According to that show half the military is either a murder victim, or is in jail for murdering someone. If ISIS or al Qaeda needed a propaganda piece to make US naval personnel look like a bunch of criminals, they could hardly…

It's a shit show to be sure, but it's also been on for 15 plus years and for anyone to work at a media site and pretend to be completely unaware of it is smug and full off shit

thats a very good point! without a frame of reference, who knows what that dude actually smelled

thats on a good day. They'll be lucky if the beaches aren't covered in used condoms and dirty needles

She suspects though

the bond ones wear out their welcome though when they go on for 15 minutes

my idea of hard drugs extends to anything beyond weed and shrooms

it irks me that in this day and age there are people who don't understand why that distinction is important.

that's an actual applicable rate within the navy. within the navy itself, there are all sorts of rates and titles that only make sense to navy people.

We've been at war for almost two decades, there's a cornucopia of information on the subject readily available for you. If you can't expend the energy for a quick google search to look up the difference and why those distinctions are important to people, why weigh in at all?

Whenever I've had an absolutely shitty week, and I think I've hit a new rock bottom, and somebody offers me hard drugs, I google image search "Lindsay Lohan present day" and the results give me the strength to say no. Thank you Lindsay Lohan.

she had potential talent back in her Mean Girls heyday, but whatever was there, she coked to death years ago

Just a warning, soldiers and airmen will just get irritated with you, but if you wander into the wrong bar and call a sailor a marine or a marine a soldier, you're likely to get your jaw dislocated.

because their audience lives in the present where such distinctions do matter, and little screw ups like that take the audience out of the story.

And your telling me the same motherfuckers who can memorize four dozen weapons classes from Call of Duty can't also be bothered to learn the 4 different kinds of people who use them?

I mean, I don't know all the nuances that separate the different Scandinavian countries, but if you were Norwegian but I kept insisting that it was ok to call you Swedish because I didn't understand enough of the differences, you'd still be upset wouldn't you? that's how deeply soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen…

Army=soldier, Air Force=airman, marine=marine, Navy=sailor (or seaman).

No. And this show does such an otherwise fantastic job at creating a believable universe that it is jarring every time they mix up the two terms. Within military culture, vets and service members find it mildly insulting when outsiders don't understand the distinction.

I do wish they'd stop using the terms "soldier" and "marine" interchangeably