The Man That Made Military Movies Not Suck with Dale Dye | BRCC #360

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Join us for an episode with Dale Dye, an American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and writer. A decorated Marine veteran of the Vietnam War, Dye is the founder and head of Warriors, Inc., a technical advisory company specializing in portraying realistic military action in Hollywood films. Dye talks about the emotional impact of the films he’s been a part of producinglike The Pacific and Band of Brothers.

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0:00.0	Black Ribbon coppy, baby.
0:01.5	Freedom kill them.
0:03.3	We are honored to be joined by Mr. Dale Dye, a legend in the Marine Corps.
0:13.8	In his own mind.
0:15.7	The reason why war movies don't suck.
0:18.4	Literally the number one reason, who has been a tech advisor on arguably the best military
0:25.3	films of the modern era.
0:27.1	Thank you for joining us.
0:28.4	We're in the National Museum of the Pacific War.
0:30.9	You're doing a panel here later today.
0:32.4	I am.
0:32.7	And we've got a couple of the Pacific actors coming on the show after you and we were just kind of
0:38.9	talking about some of the old Vietnam stuff you served in Way City and and then you got involved
0:46.3	with both some iconic directors really early in your career but I would be hard pressed if we
0:52.7	didn't just start with platoon.
0:55.0	Okay.
0:56.4	Because I've been looking forward to ask you about this for a while.
0:59.6	How did you become involved with Oliver Stone and get into the place where you were doing that movie?
1:04.8	Well, the truth of the matter is I had seen, I'd learned to read the trade papers.
1:08.6	I was out in L.A. trying to sell my concept of, you know, training, being hard-ass and training
1:14.6	actors that way.
1:15.6	Nobody was buying it.
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