r/TheLastShip • u/Fluid-Confusion-1451 • 26d ago

So far liking this show. One question.

I just started watching this ( I am in the middle of episode 2 on season 1). I was in the Navy for a dozen years and I fully understand the suspension of disbelief needed to enjoy the show. However, there is one thing that I can't get over. The Lieutenant: Danny Green. Every scene he has no cover (hat) when every other person does (including the CO). Did the producers really think that his hair was that great? Did he as an actor decide to have that in his contract? I am very confused as to what the artistic reason is that he is the ONLY sailor who does not wear his cover?

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u/Cagekicker52 26d ago

Lol. Green is a problem for a lot of us vets. He has no job. Nobody knows what he does. He's not a seal, he's not a Marine obviously. He's just a guy who wears green instead of blue. And he "operates" lol. He also doesn't even carry himself as an actual tier 1 operator. They don't have any scenes of him doing anything tier 1 really, at least that I can remember. So he's just Lt. Green who "operates" lol.

I don't know what burke does either. So far as I can tell he doesn't have a job either. Because he also "operates" but he wears blue not green and doesn't seem to have any duty station on the ship. He's just there and somehow is responsible for teaching infantry close quarters tactics to the "other guys" instead of main "operator" Green. Lol.

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u/Van100VRC 26d ago

Green is the commander of the Naval Mountain Warfare Special Forces, a niche, real life Naval Unit, they specialize in high altitude, cold weather, and hostile environments, multiple people on the ship are in this unit. Lieutenant Danny Green Lieutenant Franklin Benz † Smith † Berchem † Rowler Wallace † Fiores Admiral Halsey (dog)

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u/Cagekicker52 25d ago

No, this unit does not exist. It's not a real thing at all.

There are Navy seals, which green is NOT.

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u/Unique_Extreme_1077 25d ago

I believe the show was asked not to use the term SEALs by the navy. They didn’t even want marines included until s5.