Training Hollywood Actors with Marine Veteran and Actor Dale Dye

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Dale Dye,  is a Hollywood actor, military advisor and founder of Warriors Inc. Dale shares with host Joe Crane, his military career and how he got involved in Hollywood and eventually advised and landed roles in Platoon, Band of Brothers, Born on the 4th of July, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, The Pacific and many more great military movies.

Dale Dye – In the Beginning

Retired Marine Captain Dale Dye started his journey in 1964 as a high school student at the Missouri Military Academy.  He enlisted in the Marine Corps and became an 81mm mortarman with the 5th Marines at Camp Pendleton.  In 1965 he went to Vietnam for a few months and then returned to the states.  Dale took an interest in a Marine Corps correspondent that was taking pictures and eventually changed his MOS to public affairs.He served in Vietnam from 1967 as a combat correspondent until he was hit the third time in May of 1970, serving for 33 months.  Dale received 3 Purple Hearts.

“We had to be wherever the shooting was going on and that is where we wanted to be.” – Dale Dye

Seeing the War Through a Different Lens

As a combat correspondent, Dale saw the war through a lens that the average Marine didn’t.  He was able to go anywhere and do anything as long as he could provide a human interest story for the hometown newspapers.  He had proven himself in his field and eventually was persuaded to go to Quantico to Officer Candidate School.

“After the war I was all over the world doing all kinds of assignments .” – Dale Dye

Soldier of Fortune

After retiring, Soldier of Fortune Magazine contacted Dale and hired him to be an Executive Editor.  They sent him all over the world, primarily to Central America. He was writing a few articles and training anti-sandinista troops in Honduras and Costa Rica.  

“Writing of the article was secondary to the training of these anti gorilla troops.”– Dale Dye

Due to Iran-Contra, Dale made the decision to leave this assignment and move on in his life.

Once a Marine, Always a Marine

Dale reflected and concluded that a common theme that intrigued him was military movies and the fact that these movies did not reflect the military that he served in.  He went to LA and made a name for himself by convincing producers that the actors needed total immersion in a version of bootcamp that the actors could bring to their performance.  His mission was to change how the American civilians view the common grunt. Dale finally teamed up with Oliver Stone to train the actors for the movie Platoon. For 3 weeks with no outside contact, Dale Dye trained 33 actors as a rifle platoon.  Some of those actors went on to be famous. He trained Forest Whitaker, Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, and Tom.

Berenger“Always been a movie fan; seen every military movie there was .” – Dale Dye

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Check out these links for Dale Dye:

• Website:  Daledye.com
• Warriors Inc.

Dale Dye is also an accomplished author.  Check out books by Dale Dye on Amazon:

Books by Dale Dye

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