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In the Army Now is a highly satirical 1994 war film, directed by Daniel Petrie, Jr and starring Pauly Shore, Andy Dick, David Alan Grier, Esai Morales, and Lori Petty.

Synopsis

A group of young men and women joined the US Army Reserves believing they would have a good time while earning extra money. At first they were assigned to a Water Purifying Unit, thus earning the nickname Waterboys. What they did not realize, though, was that the country of Libya was planning an invasion of Chad, and they would consequently be sent overseas. They first tried to get a discharge by pretending to be homosexuals, but they failed.

Upon arriving in Libya, they did not get along well with the full-time soldiers, particulary a Special Forces Soldier played by Esai Morales. On a routine mission to resupply a forward base, their convoy was ambushed by a Libyan commando squad. The misfit reserves were thought to have been KIA and were left to fend for themselves. Fortunately for them, they were captured by the Libyan forces and spent a night in a Libyan POW Camp. There they met up with the Special Forces Soldier and were told of his mission, to destroy missiles armed with biological warheads aimed at American Bases. During an airstrike, the group of reserves and the Special Forces soldier escaped and made contact with the American Headquarters. The Reserves' Commander ordered them to finish off the Special Forces' mission and HALOed Dune Buggies and heavy weaponry to the reserves.

After locating the missiles, they had a difficult time holding off a battalion of Libyans while painting the missiles with a laser. In the end, they succeeded.

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