One Inaccuracy

Rating: 6/10 (4 February 2007)

I think this film was an accurate portrayal of life in the modern Corps except for one incident.
When the kids were crawling the obstacle course during boot camp, one of the recruits was shot and apparently killed when he panicked and stood up in an MG's line of fire. I'm pretty sure the Staff Sergeant (Foxx) who was conducting the training would, at a minimum, have been relieved of duty and probably would have been court martialed.
Forty or fifty years ago the Corps would have just written it off as a training accident but in today's "sensitive" and politically-correct military, such accidents aren't allowed to happen without a scapegoat paying the price.