FORCE RECON in Media
- Clint Eastwood plays Force Recon Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway in the 1986 film, Heartbreak Ridge.
- Mark Wahlberg play Force Recon Gunnery Sergeant Bob Lee Swagger in 2007 action drama Shooter.
- In the 1996 film The Rock, USMC Force Recon Marines, led by disenchanted Brigadier General Frank Hummel, played by Ed Harris, seize control of Alcatraz during a guided tour and take 81 tourists hostage in the prison cells. Hummel threatens to launch stolen rockets against the population of San Francisco unless the government pays ransom and reparations to the families of Recon Marines who died on illegal, clandestine missions under his command and whose deaths were not honored.
- In Spy Game, Brad Pitt plays a Vietnam-era Marine Scout-Sniper, before being recruited into the CIA.
- Recon Marines are portrayed in the 1995 film Dead Presidents.
- Sergeant Paul Jackson from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a member of Force Recon, one of the two factions and four characters played as in the game. Force Recon is also a playable faction in the online multiplayer.
- Alcatraz is the name of a force recon marine from the video game Crysis 2.
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Famous quotes containing the words force and/or media:
“He saw, he wish’d, and to the prize aspir’d.
Resolv’d to win, he meditates the way,
By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
For when success a lover’s toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain’d his ends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)