U.S. Military Hall of Shame: How a Solider Used His Credit Card to Call in an Artillery Strike
By
Peter Suciu
Published
July 15, 2021
Credit Card Artillery Strike
There are a lot of things in war movies that seem unlikely, yet really happened.
Case in point: In the 1998 World War II epic Saving Private Ryan, Private Daniel Jackson, played by Barry Pepper, kills an enemy sniper by shooting through the German soldier’s scope – a seemingly impossible shot. However, it was actually accomplished during the Vietnam War by real-life Marine sniper Carlos Hathcock, who saw a glint of light in the bushes and made the impressive kill of an enemy sniper.
Another dubious movie moment occurred in the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge, which was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood, and involved soldiers calling in an artillery strike over a phone and paying for the call with a credit card. The final act of the film centers on 1983’s Operation Urgent Fury, the U.S. military invasion of Grenada, and it is a paint-by-the-numbers gung ho popcorn action sequence in every sense of the word.
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