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10/18/07
Marine Corps Boot Camp
Motivational Graduation Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSjbQ0rWFPA&mode=related&search=
10/18/07
Captain Dale Dye will be consulting on this mini series
"The Pacific"
Spielberg and Hanks are filming a
new 10 part War II miniseries similar to the 2001 HBO
miniseries "Band of Brothers".
. The following is a short bio
of Captain Dye:
Captain Dale A. Dye, USMC (Ret)
DALE DYE was born October 8,
1944 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He graduated as a cadet
officer from Missouri Military Academy but there was no money
for college so he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps
in January 1964. He served in Vietnam in 1965 and 1967 through
1970 surviving 31 major combat operations. He emerged from
Southeast Asia highly decorated including three Purple Hearts
for wounds suffered in combat. He spent 13 years as an
enlisted Marine, rising to the rank of Master Sergeant before
he was chosen to attend Officer Candidate School. Appointed a
Warrant Officer in 1976, he later converted his commission and
was a Captain when he was sent to Beirut with the
Multinational Peacekeeping Force in 1982-83. He served in a
variety of assignments around the world and along the way
managed to graduate with a B.A. degree in English from the
University of Maryland. DYE worked for a year at "Soldier of
Fortune" Magazine when he finally decided to retire in 1984.
He spent time in Central America, reporting and training
troops in guerrilla warfare techniques in both El Salvador and
Nicaragua before leaving the magazine in 1985 and heading for
Hollywood where he is
one of the most respected and requested
military consultants for film and television. Consulting on
and acting in such films as:
SAVING
PRIVATE
RYAN
MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE
WAG
THE DOG
UNDER SIEGE
JFK
PLATOON
FORREST
GUMP
BAND OF BROTHERS (TV Series, as Col. Robert
Sink)
Captain Dale Dye is also a successful novelist:
�Run Between the Raindrops
�Outrage
�Platoon
�Conduct
Unbecoming
�Duty and Dishonor
CAPT. DALE DYE,
USMC (ret.) web site
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