History Series / ERing

** Taken UpToEleven in the two-parter "Cemetery Wind". [[spoiler: JT's girlfriend Angela is killed by Colombian drug traffickers as payback for an operation years earlier. JT goes off the grid to finish the job and take revenge of Angela's boss, CIA Director Raymond Metcalf, who leaked the information that got her killed.]]

* BadassBeard: JT sported one during his field days.

* DuringTheWar: TheWarOnTerror.

* TheFundamentalist: A given in a show about TheWarOnTerror. But not just radical Islamists. See the entry for WesternTerrorists.

* UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar: Steven Algazi and Colonel [=McNulty=] served in the war, as did JT's father.

* TheWarOnTerror: Pretty much defines the entire series.

* AnOfficerAndAGentleman: JT is this to a [[IncrediblyLamePun T]].

Executive produced by Creator/JerryBruckheimer, ''E-Ring'' was a military drama set in the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin E-Ring]], or the outer ring, of the Pentagon. Major James "JT" Tisnewski (Benjamin Bratt), a veteran Special Forces operator, is plucked from the field and given a desk job as part of the Special Operations Division of the E-Ring, responsible for the planning and deployment of covert US special operations worldwide. With his superior Colonel Eli [=McNulty=] (Creator/DennisHopper) he struggles to navigate the bureaucracy of the Pentagon in order to gain approval from the Joint Chiefs of Staff for numerous controversial missions around the globe, from rescuing American agents in China to battling insurgencies in Southeast Asia (and at home).

* TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar: This is Sonny's role in the E-Ring, to make sure military operations remain in the rule of law.

* {{Badass}}: Numerous in the show. It is about Special Forces, after all. And not all the badasses are in the field.

** ''Escape and Evade''. A US Special Forces team are accused of illegally treading on Iranian soil, because of exasperation with the terrorists they are hunting simply being able to hide in Iran without consequence. [[spoiler: They also save JT's life.]]
** In ''Weekend Pass'', [[spoiler: General Kuwendi uses this trope to justify framing the accused Marines, so he can launch a coup against the corrupt, economy-destroying President.]]

* TheFundamentalist: A given in a show about TheWarOnTerror. But not just radical Islamists. See the entry for WesternTerrorists.
* TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar: This is Sonny's role in the E-Ring, to make sure military operations remain in the rule of law.

* VastBureaucracy: The Pentagon.
* WesternTerrorists: ''Delta Does Detroit'' has a Christian Fundamentalist group of the Racial Supremacists/Right Wing Militia Fanatics/Western Religious Terrorists type taking Muslims hostage in a mosque.

Executive produced by JerryBruckheimer, E-Ring was a military drama set in the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin E-Ring]], or the outer ring, of the Pentagon. Major James "JT" Tisnewski (Benjamin Bratt), a veteran Special Forces operator, is plucked from the field and given a desk job as part of the Special Operations Division of the E-Ring, responsible for the planning and deployment of covert US special operations worldwide. With his superior Colonel Eli [=McNulty=] (Dennis Hopper) he struggles to navigate the bureaucracy of the Pentagon in order to gain approval from the Joint Chiefs of Staff for numerous controversial missions around the globe, from rescuing American agents in China to battling insurgencies in Southeast Asia (and at home).

* AnOfficerAndAGentleman: JT is this to a [[IncrediblyLamePun T]].

* ItsPersonal: ''The Forgotten'', when evidence arises that a Navy SEAL presumed KIA after his chopper crashed is actually being held by the Abu Sayyaf separatists. Algazi feels [[MyGreatestFailure guilt]] because he called off the search and rescue, and [=McNulty=] takes it personally because he himself was held captive by the North Vietnamese DuringTheWar.
** Taken UpToEleven in the two-parter ''Cemetery Wind''. [[spoiler: JT's girlfriend Angela is killed by Colombian drug traffickers as payback for an operation years earlier. JT goes off the grid to finish the job and take revenge of Angela's boss, CIA Director Raymond Metcalf, who leaked the information that got her killed.]]
* MilitaryCoup: [[spoiler: In ''Weekend Pass'', the Surinamese military attache, General Kuwendi, frames the Marines accused of rape in order to launch a coup against the corrupt President.]]

* ColonelBadass: Colonel [=McNulty=], who survived four years in captivity during TheVietnamWar and is unafraid to speak his mind. [[spoiler: JT becomes one when he is promoted halfway through Season One.]]

* TheVietnamWar: Steven Algazi and Colonel [=McNulty=] served in the war, as did JT's father.

The show struggled from the onset, due to being pitted up against hit shows such as ''Series/AmericanIdol'', ''Series/CriminalMinds'' and ''Series/{{Lost}}''. It was eventually canceled after 22 episodes were filmed.

The show struggled from the onset, due to being pitted up against hit shows such as AmericanIdol, CriminalMinds and {{Lost}}. It was eventually canceled after 22 episodes were filmed.

* WesternTerrorists: ''Delta Does Detroit'' has a Christian Fundamentalist of the Racial Supremacists/Right Wing Militia Fanatics/Western Religious Terrorists taking Muslims hostage in a mosque.