In The Army Now

In the Army Now is a 1994 War film, directed by Daniel Petrie, Jr and starring Pauly Shores, Andy Dick, David Alan Grier, Esai Morales, Lori Petty, and Chick Hearn.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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Synopsis

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A group of young men and woman joined the US Army Reserves believeing they will have a good time plus earning some cash. At first, they were assigned to a Water Purifying Unit, thus earning the nicknames Waterboys. What they do not realized is that the Libyan are planning an invasion of Chad, they will will be sent oversea. They first tried to get a discharge by pretending to be gay, but they failed.

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Upon arriving in Libya, they did not get along well with the full time soldiers, particulary a Special Forces Soldier played by Esai Morales. On a routine mission to resupply a forward base, their convoy were ambushed by a Libyan commando squad. Our misfit reserves where thought to have been KIA and they were left to fend for themselves. Fortunately for them, they were captured by the Libyan and spent a night in a Libyan POW Camp. There, they met up with the Special Forces Soldier and he told our reserves of his mission, to destory some missiles armed with biological warheads aimed at American Bases. During an airstrike, our reserves and the Special Forces soldier escaped and made contact with the American Headquarter. The Reserves' Sarge ordered them to finish off the Special Forces' mission and HALOed some Dune Buggies and heavy weaponry to our reserves.

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After locating the missiles, they had a hard time holding off a batallion of Libyans while painting the missiles with a laser. In the end, they succeed.

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