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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

SnoopyStyle It's 1967 Vietnam. Sgt. Zeke Anderson (Terence Knox) is a veteran on his third tour. After an attack on Firebase Ladybird, he replaces the casualties with new troops. The Bravo company's second platoon gets new leader Lt. Goldman (Stephen Caffrey). After the success of Platoon, a new wave of Vietnam war dramas washed over the TV and big screen landscape. The first season has the platoon operating out of a forward base. It has plenty of explosions while tackling some tough issues. It's never quite cinematic enough although they blow up a lot of stuff in episode 14 Under Siege. It could have gone darker but it's plenty hard-hitting for a network show back in the day. I still remember the tunnel second episode. It misses a good opportunity connecting to the show's title. The show should use a 365 days countdown clock for one of the green new kids.The second season starts with the impending Tet offensive. The platoon is relocated near Saigon and the cast is joined by hot-shot helicopter pilot Lt. John McKay. Psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Seymour and crusading reporter Alex Devlin would come and go. The production moves from the Hawaiian tropics to California. The addition of female main characters seems to be an attempt to attract a more diverse network audience with some romancing. The attempt at going mainstream would extend into a cliffhanger season ending. The effect is to water down the main appeal of the show which is a gritty no-holds-barred vision of war on network TV. The sprinkling of romantic melodrama muddies the brand. Other shows do that aspect better. The base and jungle settings remain relatively good. The back-lot sets representing Saigon fall far short and detract from the show. The second season is a step down into mediocrity. The third season attempts to cleanse the show of romantic entanglements by killing off Alex. It never fully recovers in its third and year but it is overall a compelling network attempt.

skajaquadamusic Good series, just watching it again from the start and noticed on S1 E1 the helmet covers are US woodland cameo, these were not issued until 1981 as to the Mitchell cameo helmet covers that were actually used in the Vietnam war era. From memory the Tour of Duty is somewhat accurate regarding clothing etc I will be paying more attention to detail now. Otherwise for this small flaw that I've noticed so far, it is a great show and really goes into depths of this war that otherwise to date still has not fully been addressed in movies from the same eta.Correct me if I am wrong about Woodland vs Mitchell

SipteaHighTea Tour of Duty, Combat and the Rat Patrol have something in common where the main characters are not killed off. There were some exceptions. The pacifist kid on Tour of Duty was wounded in action near the end of the first or second season and was send back home due to his wound. You didn't see that in the other two TV shows. The characters in the TV show Combat were wounded but were never send home let alone killed in action.However, there were big differences between Tour of Duty and the two other shows.In the Rat Patrol and Combat, you see German soldiers getting killed in wholesale numbers without inflicting heavy casualties on the Americans. In Tour of Duty, the North Vietnamese gave as good as they got. In the Rat Patrol and Combat, you had German soldiers being killed by bayonets, strangle to death, or in some cases being drown. You did not see that in Tour of Duty.In the TV show Combat, you did not see the show address issues of war crimes committed by Allied soldiers, racist attitudes toward the Afro-Americans, Hispances, Asian Americans, other white Americans of different ethnic groups and to Allied soldiers of different nations like the British and French. The show did not address the military inequalities that exists between the enlisted men and the officer corps. The World War II American officer corp live high off the hog like the American officers of Vietnam. The show did not address the tensions between the regular Army, Army Reserve, and the National Guard. The show also did not address about the situation on the home front both good and bad such as the women and minorities working in the factories, labor unions pushing for higher wages and corporations trying to overcharge the government and Vice-President Truman trying to put a stop to the corporate malfeasance.Finally, in Tour of Duty, you have special effects of soldiers being wounded in action and blood spurting all over the place. You do not see that in the Rat Patrol or Combat.P. S. I am agree with one person who stated about capturing NVA general. In Combat, they always seem to have episodes about capturing an important German officer or destroying a target that was not within their skills.

John Christaras And if anyone show even few of the episodes i think that they will agree with me. Tour of duty is about the Vietnam war.It has everything... War,Action,Agony but what makes it unique and complete is that it stresses out all problems a society has, reflected upon the Vietnam Military society(such as drugs and racism). It made me really feel what war is, and at that time I was only 14 years of age. It is not about a macho guy go kill all Vietnamese and leave a winner no matter the casualties. It is about morality and all horrible aspects of war and the main hero, Surgeant Zeke, doing the best he can dealing with all the problems he faces(either saving his men lives or disapproving and dealing with all problems that now most of them exist in all societies all over the world). I did not write this to make you watch it. It was just something I owed to me.