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This is the oldest of the United States military services
What is the United States Army. Founded June 10 1775
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This the term for a helicopter?
What is a bird
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This 1949 musical and 1958 film featured the Rodgers and Hammerstein songs There is Nothing Like a Dame and Some Enchanted Evening?
What is South Pacific
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This 1970 film, set in the Korean War, became a smash TV show in 1972, featuring the characters Hawkeye, Hot Lips and Radar.
What is MASH
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What 1981 film pits Indiana Jones against a group of Nazis who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant?
What is Radars of the Lost Ark
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This is the current number of active duty military personnel?
What is 1.3 Million Men and Women serving on active duty! The Army has 546,000, the Air Force has 332,000 the Navy has 323,000 and the Marine Corps has 194,000. At the end of the WWII there were 12.6 million people on active duty.
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This is Army's term for a solider?
What is Joe (short for G.I. Joe)
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This 1948 stage play and 1955 film starred Henry Fonda. The film also starred James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon
What is Mr. Roberts
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This show started in 2003 as a spin-off of JAG and now also has units in Los Angeles and New Orleans?
What is NCIS
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This 1993 film is based on the life of a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories?
What is Schindler’s List
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This many people can serve aboard an aircraft carrier?
What is 5,000 people including aviators.  For Thanksgiving dinner's the galley will serve over 500lbs of roast beef, 500lbs of ham and 500lbs of turkey in addition to all the other fixings.
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This term references the service ribbons found on a military uniform?
What is a salad bar
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This 1968 musical and 1979 film featured the song The Age of Aquarius?
What is Hair
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This 1964-1969 sitcom was a spinoff from The Andy Griffith Show, and starred Jim Nabors?
What is Gomer Pyle, USMC
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This 1998 American war film is set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II. The film is notable for its graphic and realistic portrayal of war, and for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depict the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944?
What is Saving Private Ryan
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This is the oldest ship still serving the United States Navy?
What is U.S.S. Constitution. It was commissioned on October 21 1797.
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The naval term Bravo Zulu means this?
What is well done or congratulations
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With music by Leonard Bernstein and book by Betty Comden and Adolf Green, this 1944 stage musical, based on a ballet by Jerome Robbins, is currently enjoying a Broadway revival. The 1949 film starred Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller and Betty Garrett.
What is On The Town
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This 1965-1971 sitcom was set in a German POW camp, where an international crew of Allied prisoners foiled the Germans every week?
What is Hogan's Heroes.
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This 2012 American historical drama stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field and is based in part on a biography written by Doris Kearns Goodwin?
What is Lincoln
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This is the largest aircraft in the United States Air Force inventory?
What is  C-5 Galaxy.  Its cargo compartment (143') is longer than the Wright Brother's first flight (120').
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Leatherneck is a military slang term for this division of the United States Military.
What is the United States Marine Crops
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This 1969 musical and 1972 film told the story of the Continental Congress and the creation of the Declaration of Independence?
What is 1776
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This 1962-1966 sitcom featured the misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew during World War II, and starred Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway?
What is McHale’s Navy.
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This 1979 comedy was not very successful (for a Spielberg film) but featured an ensemble cast including Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, and John Candy. The story involves a panic in the Los Angeles area after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor?
What is 1941
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