Transformers RotF and the Armed Forces
Posted by Raymond T.
Dec 28, 2008 at 8:35pm CST
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"The U.S. Department of Defense gave its official stamp of approval to the Michael Bay-directed film, not only allowing production amid the pristine dunes of the Army's New Mexico missile range, but also letting filmmakers follow jets and fighter planes through the sky from nearby Holloman Air Force Base. More scenes were shot on the Navy's aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, and Marines fill the ranks of the strike team battling the invading Transformers".
"Among the equipment the movie is using in this desert sequence alone: two A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" tank-killing jets; six F-16 Fighting Falcons; 10 armored Humvees; the Army's Golden Knights parachute team; two Abrams tanks; two Bradley tanks; two missile-launcher vehicles; two armored personnel carriers; and a quarter-mile of the missile testing range, cleared of unexploded ordnance and built into an Egyptian town and temple. (Signs warn not to cross a perimeter just over the gypsum dunes, because live bombs could be hidden in the sand)".
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Comment by Mkall
Dec 28, 2008
Gotta admire the military: when they support something, they commit nothing but the best to it.
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Comment by Primus, Second-In-Command
Dec 28, 2008
well, hopefully we'll get the warthog tank killers as an autobot or decepticon in a later movie.
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Comment by primeoptimus
Dec 29, 2008
does anyone else get the feeling that half of those are probably combaticons?
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Comment by mattyc1007
Dec 29, 2008
please be the combaticons, please.
