History Roleplay / RedDawnPlus20

* EliteMooks: A KGB unit ends up holding off a Marine regiment for two days at an airport, the worst possible terrain for defense. Then again, they ''were'' guarding the [[MoscowCentre TVD Amerika]] [[MnogoNukes nuclear weapons stockpile]].
[[hottip:*: A veteran of the fight compares them to the Spartans. Their commander was named, fittingly enough, Leonidias.]]

** [[{{JAG}} Vice Admiral Chegwidden]] is in charge of the JAG office after the war, investigating a Marine general's misconduct.
*** With assistance from [[{{NCIS}} Jethro Gibbs]] and company.

** [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Colonel Chang]] takes over a troubled Idaho National Guard attack helicopter unit postwar following a major cock-up, and ''very'' efficently cleans house.

** [[IronEagle Doug Masters]] is stated as having received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the war, while Chappy Sinclair wound up with [[TheBrigadier two stars]].

** Ironically, the reporter survived.

* LaResistance: Quite a few. Some were heroic, some weren't.

** Ironically, the reporter [[IGotBetter survived]].

* WarIsHell: Invoked in several pieces of fiction and many posts. Everything from the horrors of being under chemical & high explosive artillery bombardment (where even a minor shrapnel wound can be a death sentence), to witnessing (or, in one case, [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil arguably committing]] a war crime), to [[ShellShockedVeteran veterans trying to come home]].

** {{NASA}}'s Johnson Space Center in Houston is also evacuated. And has everything inside taken along with the evacuees. '''Everything.''' ''[[BeyondTheImpossible To the bare walls]].''

* KlingonPromotion: Happens a couple of times to one Soviet officer mentioned by several, bumped up after being proven right for ''not'' toeing the party line, then again when his commanding officer orders a massacre and he [[UnusualEuphemism objects strenuously]]. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in that he's said to hate Klingon Promotion jokes.

*** Interviewing a prospective pilot: "[[StarTrekKlingonAcademy I am not interested in the names of your parents, nor in your family's lineage. What I am interested in is your breaking point.]]" (Interviewee is the daughter of a Medal of Honor recipient and a woman who is a major-league war hero in her own right. She still gets nominated for flight training.)

** [[StarTrekKlingonAcademy Colonel]] [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Chang]] takes over a troubled Idaho National Guard attack helicopter unit postwar following a major cock-up, and ''very'' efficently cleans house.
*** Interviewing a prospective pilot: "I am not interested in the names of your parents, nor in your family's lineage. What I am interested in is your breaking point." (Interviewee is the daughter of a Medal of Honor recipient and a woman who is a major-league war hero in her own right. She still gets nominated for flight training.)

** [[StarTrekKlingonAcademy Colonel]] [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Chang]] takes over a troubled Army attack helicopter unit postwar following a major cock-up, and ''very'' efficently cleans house.

** [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Colonel Chang]] takes over a troubled Army attack helicopter unit postwar following a major cock-up, and ''very'' efficently cleans house.

** A [[TheBigOne DEMOCRAT-hating Senior Chief]] makes an appearance as well.

** And [[{{JAG}} Vice Admiral Chegwidden]] is in charge of the JAG office after the war, investigating a Marine general's misconduct.

* [[BraziliansWithBazookas Brazilians With Bombers]]: The Brazilian Navy sends its aircraft carrier (''Minas Gerais'') to help out, the ship's compliment of A-4 Skyhawks and S-2 Trackers flying off the U.S. Navy carrier ''Shangri-La'' after their own ship burns out its boilers reaching the U.S.

* BritsWithBattleships: In the Battle of the Baltic Exits, the Soviets tried to invade the United kingdom, sending their invasion force through the Baltic Sea. The Royal Navy found out and was most displeased. Her Majesty's Navy then expressed it's displeasure by sinking most, if not all, of the Soviet Baltic Fleet.

* [[BraziliansWithBazookas Brazilians With Bombers]]: The Brazilian Navy sends its aircraft carrier (''Minas Gerais'') to help out, the ship's compliment of A-4 Skyhawks and S-2 Trackers flying off some U.S. Navy carriers as well.

* DeadlyGas: Chemical weapons are used on occasion by the combatants; one infamous example given is where a TV reporter, taking a firm grasp on the IdiotBall, dismasked to prove there were no chemical weapons being used...as the unit she was embedeed with ''was being nerve gassed''. The [[SemperFi Marines]] with her were frozen with shock, then horror at the act and its results, some of ''them'' becoming casualties when they had to [[NauseaFuel dismask to vomit]], and after the first few seconds the video of the event [[GoryDiscretionShot is classified at the highest level]] as too horrific to be viewed.

* RuleOfCool: It's pointed out on occasion that some elements of the scenario (above and beyond the [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief inhererent oddness of the movie's plot]]) are unlikely when looked at with a realistic eye; for instance, the [[CoolBoat reactivated battleships]]. A combination of [[StatusQuoIsGod inertia from having been around in the story so long]] and plain old [[RuleOfCool being there because they're cool]] keeps them around despite this.

* IncrediblyLamePun: A pilot of KC-135s and B-52s in StrategicAirCommand happens to be named [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Somers]]. The title of her autobiography is ''BUFFy the Communist Slayer''.