JAG (TV Series) War Stories (1999) User Reviews

Fantasy and reality collide

[hindsonevansmike · 7/10 · 26 February 2021]

Whilst the main team prosecute the aftermath of a SeAL rescue mission in Kosovo, the Admiral uses up his vacation time and finds himself advising a TV production company.

We learn that the SECNAV has nicknamed Harm as "Harmful Rabb". Harm seeks the Admiral's advice on a "political" problem late in the evening and seriously upsets the Admiral's plans for the rest of the night.

"A phone call would have sufficed".

Mac mixes it up with a two-star on the stand. Bud bumbles his way to a satisfactory outcome.. Bud stands up for what is right - and keeps on digging for exculpatory evidence. Eventually he receives high praise.

Then Bud and Harriett choose the name(s) for their upcoming son.

Advisors

[SlimJim39 · 2/10 · 21 October 2019]

I almost forgot about this episode. In it the Admiral acts as an advisor on this movie. It just brought home some interesting facts about military advisors to motion pictures and TV shows about the military.

Whenever you see this glaring error, something you know is not the way it is actually done in the military in a motion picture about the military don't be too quick to place the blame on the advisor. I knew an officer who was an advisor and he told me that they (the producers) are told that what they are doing is all wrong and they choose to do it anyway. To which I ask him, then why do they even bother having military advisors? He just said "to show the names in the credits at the end of the flick!" To which I said, "oh and you get the blame for the stupid mistakes!" He said, yep!

So don't blame the advisors, blame the producers!

Other glaring errors

[SlimJim39 · 2/10 · 13 March 2020]

The military does NOT care if a member takes leave or not. They do NOT force a member to take leave, if they wish to lose it that is there concern. Stating the Admiral had to take leave is pure bull.

A service record is NOT one or two pieces of paper in a manila folder! Service records are in brown cardboard folders and are, depending on the length of time the member is in the service, could be quite full.

This one I have seen a number of times: when a member is court martialed the jury is made up of personnel whose rank is equal to or above the member being court martialed. There are never any member below the person's rank.