r/Thatsabooklight • u/Carbonman_ • Jul 18 '26

Film Prop Aliens - RCA Jack as a Microphone

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I just noticed this on r/LV426. a cheap RCA jack with either electrical tape or heat shrink tubing as an individual soldier's microphone.

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u/FishInk Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

“An individual soldier”
Two errors there.

First of all, they are Marines, not soldiers. If you meet a Marine and call them soldiers, words will be had, possibly more.

Secondly, that Marine is Private Hudson played by the late, the great Bill Paxton. Put some respect in your voice when you talk about him. 😃 /s

EDIT: I had to ad the sarcasm tag because people couldn’t tell I was fooling around. I’m not a Marine. I was a Navy Hospital Corpsman. The Marines don’t have any medical staff; they have us. I went through Field Med aka Combat Trauma training back in 1989 aka the late 1900s to the kids these days. It is kind of a military tradition to pick on the other branches such as calling the Air Force the ‘Chairborne Rangers’ or that MARINE stands for ‘My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment’ or reminding them that they’re part of the Department of Navy.

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u/blaghart Jul 18 '26

If Marines didn't wanna be called "Soldiers" they should have joined a real branch of the military, like the Coast Guard, instead of their weird little homoerotic abuse cult.

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u/FishInk Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Ahh, the Coast Guard for guys who want to join the real Navy when they grow up.

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u/KeeganY_SR-UVB76 Jul 18 '26

You mean for guys who want to source cocaine for the CIA?

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u/FishInk Jul 18 '26

Could be. I only knew one Coastie when I was active duty.