We first meet him falling to his death when his first parachute doesn't open. I object to this allegation above all the other careless, mindless remarks. AP makes a damning statement and then offers only that a parachute doesn't open as validation. Besides being offensive in the extreme, this statement makes no sense. Then, perhaps he also thinks Mel is a chicken because of his role in Chicken Run .
War is hell.
Brother, did you miss it by a mile. The country that sent us off to war was not there to welcome us home. It no longer existed. Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. The opening training period and his big 'goodbye, we're going to war' speech are literally taken from Remember The Titans.