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Commander Big was billed as a bad boy military romance, where a commander Hughes, suffering from severe PTSD and refused all psych help after a mission gone horribly wrong, had a one-night-stand with a beautiful fellow motorcycle rider. He found, to his horror, that she also turned out to be his new civilian shrink, and he used every bit of verbal barb, such as talk about their sexual escapades to repulse her, but she persisted, even outside office hours, and one day, he finally broke down and explained it all. He had to keep a secret to preserve dignity for the dead, and since he's the CO, he's responsible.
There was graphic sex in several places and there was graphic violence being done to captured prisoners.
While the plot seems reasonable to an outsider, those who know how a SEAL team actually works will find the plot completely implausible.
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
1) SEAL teams are almost never deployed an entire team (which is 8 platoons of 16-men each, plus headquarters element) at a time, or even a full 16-men platoon at a time, but usually only in 8-man squads or smaller units. Yet a SEAL team is commanded by an O-5 commander (that's a rank). Why is the head of a SEAL team deploying with a platoon? Or let's assume Hughes is really a Lieutenant Commander, an O-4, that's too senior to be a platoon command, as a SEAL platoon is commanded by O-3 (Lieutenant). So what the heck is that guy doing on a mission?
2) The plot was about how one of the team wrote down the coordinates wrong and they dropped on the wrong part of the country which leads to the massacre of the team. THAT just CANNOT happen, because verification of the coordinates would be done at the HQ level, who issued the strike order, then by the team as well as the plane's pilot and navigator. To prevent mistakes, nowadays the navigation data was transferred electronically then visually confirmed by pilot and navigator. Transposing digits is simply NOT POSSIBLE, as such an error could not be made by the team.
Therefore, it is not possible to give this story a high rating, as the plot was patently impossible. The plot was also quite bad.
Category: Military
Primary Plot: SEAL team commander lost his entire team hooked up with his therapist by mistake, did not want to talk about it, just f***.
Tropes: SEAL, doctor/patient
Overall Rating: 1/5 (EXTREMELY INACCURATE)
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