I used to love watching re-runs of this with my dad, who was a veteran himself. However, we did get quite a few laughs from the tactics used. I don't know why so many people are praising the realism of the combat situations. Some were credible, but there were more than a few errors or WTF moments and ideas done to death. For instance, they were ALWAYS unlucky enough to be laying somewhere that the entire German army needed to stop by, and would get trapped. I don't think anyone in the whole squad knew how to flank anything, except for the Sarge. They would just run straight at the Germans until all guest stars were dead. They all got wounded so many times that each would have had 200 purple hearts LOL. There were so many episodes where the guest star guys would just run out in the open to attack a MG nest, or the Germans would suddenly stand up so they could get hit easily. The "squad" was more of a fire team, at best. They were on recon missions, usually, but really? Only 3-4 men out that deep in enemy territory? They were always talking loudly on patrols, for the sake of the script. However, overall, it was a great show for the time, and did show a lot of other real things that happened. It still remains a classic, just funny at times.
Review of Combat!
