84 Charlie MoPic (1989) DVD

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84 Charlie MoPic (1989)

Director:

Patrick Sheane Duncan

Writer:

Patrick Sheane Duncan

Stars:

Jonathan Emerson, Nicholas Cascone, Jason Tomlins

84 Charlie Mopic offers the Vietnam experience as seen through the eyes of a combat photographer (Mopic is slang for the Army Motion Picture Unit). Byron Thames plays a combat cameraman who has already been on two tours of duty; he goes on a third because he is intrigued by a reel of film found on the body of a dead photographer. Thames must answer to green lieutenant Jonathan Emerson and experienced sergeant Richard Brooks. In straight-on, non-judgemental fashion, we are shown the day-to-day struggle to stay alive, meeting the main characters in the natural course of action. As the mission winds down, Thames is compelled to abandon his camera to rescue a fellow soldier; as a result, yet another roll of film returns to headquarters without the photographer. 84 Charlie Mopic isn't about politics or collective guilt; it's about survival.

Here is the link to the movie at the Internet Movie database; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096744/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Nam Vet Who Was There in the 173rd ABN BDE

Posted by Rock on Jan 22nd 2018

I went looking for this movie. I saw it when it first came out - not in a theater but rented the VCR tape. I have always felt it was for me the most accurate Vietnam movie. I should explain - I was in the 173rd Airborne BDE (Sep) when it was on Okinawa and Gen. Westmoreland wanted an airborne unit in his build up of US forces in Nam. We were the first Army combat force sent to Nam in May 1965. I was there until my ETS in Dec 1966 - 20 months. The movie is about a LRRP team - we created the concept in Nam, were the first guys crazy enough to do small unit long range recon patrols. It's not a Hollywood big star pretty boy war movie, no John Waynes, just a lot of true s**t. I bought the DVD because I thought I wanted another look . . . maybe I should have passed. For me it is a lot of memories, mostly bad, but it also has a lot of truth.