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1983. Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood) is a well-decorated career military man in the United States Marine Corps, he who has seen action in Korea and Vietnam. His current rank is Gunnery Sergeant. His experiences have led him to become an opinionated, no nonsense man, who is prone to bursts of violence, especially when hes drunk, if the situation does not suit him, regardless of the specifics or people involved. Because of these actions, he has spent his fair share of overnighters behind bars. Close to retirement, one of his last assignments, one he requested, is back at his old unit at Cherry Point, North Carolina, from where he was transferred for insubordination and conduct unbecoming. He is to train a reconnaissance platoon. His superior officer, the much younger and combat inexperienced Major Malcolm Powers (Everett McGill), sees Highway as a relic of an old-styled military. Highways commanding officer, Lieutenant Ring (Boyd Gaines), the platoon leader, is also a younger man who has no combat experience, but is academically inclined and happy-go-lucky. Highway finds that his team is a rag-tag bunch of slackers, who includes wannabe rock musician Corporal Stitch Jones (Mario Van Peebles), with whom Highway had an inauspicious earlier meeting. The men in the platoon, who truly believe Highway is crazy, hate him, and dont understand why they have to follow his harsh training regimen when the United States is not currently at war. The Major, who is all about efficiency regardless of combat readiness, has the same views of Highway. He is clear that he sees Highways platoon solely as a training mechanism for his own elite squad trained by Highways nemesis, Staff Sergeant Webster (Moses Gunn). Things for Highway and his platoon change when the United States enters into war in Grenada. Through it all, Highway tries to reconnect with his bar waitress ex-wife Aggie (Marsha Mason), he even clandestinely reading womens magazines to understand her better. Two primary obstacles stand in his way: Roy Jennings (Bo Svenson), Aggies boss and current suitor who hates Marines, and Aggies own remembrance of how dysfunctional their marriage was.
Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood), a hardened, tough veteran of Korea and Vietnam returns to the United States for his last tour of duty with the U.S. Marine Corps. He is assigned to training a recon unit. Their cool, trendy and "hippy" approach to military life is a reminder to him that he is, in the words of his commanding officer, a Major, "an anachronism", useful only "in the event of war". Conveniently, a war does arise (the invasion of Grenada in October, 1983) and successfully tests both his usefulness and the effectiveness of the new recruits.
Clint Eastwood
Gunnery Sergent Thomas Highway
Marsha Mason
Aggie
Everett McGill
Major Malcolm Powers
Moses Gunn
Staff Sgt. Webster
Eileen Heckart
Little Mary
Bo Svenson
Roy Jennings
Boyd Gaines
Lieutenant Ring
Mario Van Peebles
Corporal Stitch Jones
Arlen Dean Snyder
Sergeant Major Choozoo
Vincent Irizarry
Fragetti
Ramón Franco
Aponte
Tom Villard
Profile
Mike Gomez
Quinones
Rodney Hill
Collins
Peter Koch
'Swede' Johanson
Richard Venture
Colonel Meyers
Peter Jason
Major Devin
J.C. Quinn
Quartermaster Sgt.
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