As they go through basic training or flight school (once again it's the flyboys, and girls, vs. the grunts on the ground) and then into combat, "Starship Troopers" also revisits Hollywood clichis of every war that's ever been fought on the silver screen--including "Star Wars, " which, for these ahistoric recruits, is but a dim cultural memory.

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Career highlights include his role as commander of the Basic School, the Marine Corps' main training institute at Camp Baret where he himself was once a student.

BBC: Gen John R. Allen