I'm weird.

[gridlore]

I'm half-watching "We Were Soldiers" on TNT.

The sounds of battle are soothing to me.

I know. Weird.

Mel Gibson's attempt at a Southern accent is amusing, wandering from Texas to the Carolinas as he speaks.

Comments

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Funny because he is from Tenn.

Do Southern accents do this in the Army?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but he spent most of his childhood in Australia.

In general, you can spot what a person does by what accent he picks up. Infantrymen train at Fort Benning, Ga, so we get that Georgia/Alabama drawl. Tankers get a Kentucky twang, and gun bunnies sound like Okies after they finish their initial training.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

What about service troops?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Not as cut and dried as the combat arms. There are a couple of basic training centers that do the basic training (Fort Jackson, SC comes to mind) and then they ship out to an advanced training venter (Ft. Leonard Wood for medics as na example.) So they don't get the concentrated months-on-end exposure to the accent that us combat monsters do.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, I wonder what your Australian accent sounds like. ;)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Crappy.

But I'm not getting paid several million dollars to play an Australian in a film.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Point.

Gotta love the Sar-Major, though.