As I am not paid, my answers tend to be short and to the point. I will also tell the questioner where he or she can go find the answer rather than telling the complete answer. I will also cut off discussion when they go too far astray of the purpose of the board: to help the Hollywood community. In the process of answering questions, I have been argued with, verbally attacked, and generally told I should "lose the ego." All these comments have come from people in or around the military.
What I do not want to happen is for this chat board to turn into an unmoderated military Internet discussion group. Unfortunately, what I have seen happening is that a chat board dedicated to the Hollywood community becoming a military discussion group with each individual's opinion expressed loudly and verbosely.
I am understanding the frustration felt by Hollywood types who produce military movies. If you produce a war movie of any era, you get the "experts" coming out of the woodwork. The comments work like this: "In my unit, we did such and so this and that way." In other words, whatever happened in their unit at that moment in time was indicative for the military as a whole. If you are a producer, set designer, art director, or other professional, you listen to all the various opinions with an air of incredibility. You then go off and make the film the way you wanted to originally.
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