Dale Dye has offered his expertise to television, such as the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific, and video games, including the Medal of Honor series.
30 Facts About Dale Dye
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Dale Dye's father was a liquor salesman in and around St Louis and took Dale with him as he visited working-class taverns.
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Dale Dye looked up the Battle of Iwo Jima that night and made up his mind to join the US Marines.
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Dale Dye was educated at St Joseph's Military Academy in Chicago and the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico, Missouri.
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Dale Dye had hoped to attend the US Naval Academy, but after failing the entrance exam three times and having exhausted his family's meager funds getting through military academy, he enlisted in the US Marines in January 1964.
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Dale Dye's unit was among the first to deploy to Vietnam in 1965.
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Dale Dye became one of a very few Marine combat correspondents.
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Dale Dye sent stories to military publications and to the hometown newspapers of fellow Marines.
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Dale Dye developed an immense respect for the grunts who took the brunt of any action.
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Dale Dye persuaded the battalion commander to let him accompany the battalion as a war correspondent.
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On March 18,1968, Dale Dye replaced an assistant machine gunner who had been killed.
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Dale Dye spent a total of 13 years as an enlisted Marine, rising to the rank of Master Sergeant before being appointed a warrant officer in 1976.
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Dale Dye is considered a "mustang", an enlisted man who receives a commission as an officer.
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Dale Dye retired from the Marine Corps in 1984 and founded Warriors, Inc The company specializes in training actors in war films to portray their roles realistically, and provides research, planning, staging and on-set consultation for directors and other film-production personnel.
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Dale Dye's company is the top military consultant to Hollywood.
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Dale Dye worked for the magazine for one year, during which he worked in Central America, providing guerrilla warfare training to troops in El Salvador and Nicaragua while reporting on conflicts in the region.
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Dale Dye has written several novels, including Run Between the Raindrops in 1985 and Conduct Unbecoming, and the novelization of the film Platoon.
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Dale Dye was determined to make Hollywood's depictions of battle more realistic.
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Dale Dye, who had a small role in the movie as Captain Harris, wrote the novelization based on Stone's screenplay.
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Dale Dye worked as a military technical adviser on Last of the Mohicans and the HBO companion piece to Band of Brothers, the ten-part miniseries The Pacific, which was shot in Australia.
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In 2017 Dale Dye was recognized as an Honorary Member of the 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment for his work in bringing a high degree of quality and realism to cinematic portrayals of combat.
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Dale Dye appeared in Outbreak portraying Lieutenant Colonel Briggs, a US Army officer.
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Dale Dye played Theodore Roosevelt's superior officer Colonel Leonard Wood in the TNT miniseries Rough Riders.
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Dale Dye played himself in Entourage, teaching fictional character Vincent Chase to scuba-dive in preparation for his role in Aquaman.
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Dale Dye appeared in the 2010 film Knight and Day with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, and in Larry Crowne with Tom Hanks the following year.
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Dale Dye was the technical adviser for the 1994 Oliver Stone movie Natural Born Killers, making a brief appearance as a fictionalized, police-lieutenant version of himself.
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Dale Dye hosted the History Channel's documentary series The Conquerors.
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Dale Dye consulted during development of the Medal of Honor video games series.
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Dale Dye was featured in two tracks on Hoobastank's CD Every Man for Himself.
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Dale Dye voiced Colonel Robert Sink in the Brothers in Arms video game series, and had a cameo appearance as New Founding Father Donald Talbott in the 2014 film The Purge: Anarchy.