History Series / Enlisted

Meet Staff Sergeant Pete Hill. {{Badass}} insurgent-fighting machine of the United States Army. While doing his usual OneManArmy routine in Afghanistan, Pete gets just a little annoyed that his unit is denied backup in a firefight...because the computer is down.

* BloodKnight: Randy is a subversion, he wants to be a cold eyed, remorseless {{Badass}}, but his naturally sweet-hearted nature and general incompetence mean that he will almost certainly never see combat in his career.

** The US Military hasn't allowed siblings to serve in the same unit since WWII, when all five of the Sullivan brothers were killed in action aboard the USS ''Juneau''. This can be excused for RuleOfFunny, though.

*** The biggest one would have to be Pete punching out a Colonel at a time of war ''while'' in a warzone. The loss of one rank and a transfer wouldn't even be considered a slap on the wrist. In real life this would amount to prison time and a dishonorable discharge. He would have considered himself lucky if he lost all rank and was sent back to the front lines as a Private. Hell, according to UCMJ, he could be ''summarily shot'' for that.

* {{Narcissist}}: Pete sees himself as the ultimate soldier and has a poster of himself hung in the motor pool to serve as an inspiration for his subordinates. While Derrick rolls his eyes at this, Randy happily worships his big brother, to the point of being proud at being the one allowed to hand the previously mentioned poster.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: PVT Park was born in a North Korean labor camp and was separated from her mother.

* HopeCrusher: Derrick has spent his life systematically crushing first Randy's, and then the rest fo the platoon's dreams. For example, Chubbowski used to be in great shape before Derrick got him hooked on fast food.

** In episode 2, Jill and Pete get into an informal marksmanship competition but keep posting equal scores. They keep adding more and more distractors (eyes covered, people yelling over their shoulder), but eventually they take it too far:
--> '''Pete:''' ''(to Jill)'' All right, leapfrog a Private, barrel roll, ''then'' pop up and shoot. How's that sound?\\
'''Range Officer:''' Like a ''huge'' safety violation! As range supervisor, I'm gonna need you to vacate the premesis!

* InterServiceRivalry: A recurring theme is the rivalry between the soldiers of Fort [=McGee=] and the marine detachment in town.

* CelebrityCameo: [[Series/FullHouse Laurie Loughlin]] appears for a few seconds at the end of the final episode.

-->"My dad was in jail, my mom wasn't home, my uncle Rico was beaten to death with a sock full of oranges. Or was it doorknobs? No it was oranges. His corpsecwas sticky..."

* LonelyBachelorPad: Pete's trailer at the "depressing single guy trailer park near the dump".

-->"Rear D. Those guys aren't even real soldiers, all they do is mow lawns and wash tanks, my brothers are in Rear D. What a second, Florida? Oh heeeell no"

->"Rear D. Those guys aren't even real soldiers, all they do is mow lawns and wash tanks, my brothers are in Rear D. What a second, Florida? Oh heeeell no"

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Shaping up between Pete and Jill.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: A number of characters in the pilot disappeared before episode 2.

* RecklessGunUsage: While trying to prove which is the best soldier, Jill and Pete devise a series of contests, the first of which is a high-stress firing contest, which involves running an obstacle course and leapfrogging a private. The range supervisor immediately throws them out.

--> ''"[[YouBastard You're the architect of my obesity!"''

* HopeCrusher: Derrick has spent his life systematically crushing first Randy's, and then the rest fo the platoon's dreams.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Park was born in a labour camp and was separated from her mother.

** The pilot was so bad in terms of military details that the writers decided to make a contest out of it -- point out enough wrongdoings and a viewer could get an official ''Enlisted'' challenge coin.

*** The biggest one would have to be Pete punching out a Colonel at a time of war ''while'' in a warzone. The loss of one rank and a transfer wouldn't even be considered a slap on the wrist. In real life this would amount to prison time and a dishonorable discharge. He would have considered himself lucky if he lost all rank and was sent back to the front lines as a Private.