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-->'''Urgayle:''' The ebb and flow of the Atlantic tides, the drift of the continents, the very position of the sun along its ecliptic. THESE are just a FEW of the things I control in my world! Is that clear?
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* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The all-black office uniform with black slacks and long-sleeved shirts worn by Lt. O'Neil and the Captain when she arrives at the training center, while technically a proper uniform for the time period, is ''extremely'' rare in everyday use. Most officers would use a khaki version of that uniform with short sleeves.
** When standing at attention just before training begins, all the trainees stand in ranks with their palms flat at their sides and arms fully extended in the European style. All American military branches stand at attention with their hands in fists and arms slightly bent so their hands sit at their hips.
** Time-sensitive special teams training may put somewhat severe limits on the time allowed for food, but certainly not enough to compel trainees to shove each other through the galley just to down a few mouthfulls. On the contrary, such trainees are normally encouraged to eat heartily, as the consistent training requires an increased calorie input to keep up. And, for health reasons if nothing else, they certainly aren't forced to eat out of garbage cans.
** The command master chiefs of any given command rarely involves himself with direct work in the same way Urgayle does with his instructors. The command master chief's job is to be the liason to the commanding officer in regards to matters and concerns involving enlisted personnel at the command. In a training command, he would have a say regarding the training cirriculum and preparation and in the guidelines as to how the instructors go about fulfilling such, but he personally would not be involved in the training evolutions himself.
** When standing at attention just before training begins, all the trainees stand in ranks with their palms flat at their sides and arms fully extended in the European style. All American military branches stand at attention with their hands in fists and arms slightly bent so their hands sit at their hips.
** Time-sensitive special teams training may put somewhat severe limits on the time allowed for food, but certainly not enough to compel trainees to shove each other through the galley just to down a few mouthfulls. On the contrary, such trainees are normally encouraged to eat heartily, as the consistent training requires an increased calorie input to keep up. And, for health reasons if nothing else, they certainly aren't forced to eat out of garbage cans.
** The command master chiefs of any given command rarely involves himself with direct work in the same way Urgayle does with his instructors. The command master chief's job is to be the liason to the commanding officer in regards to matters and concerns involving enlisted personnel at the command. In a training command, he would have a say regarding the training cirriculum and preparation and in the guidelines as to how the instructors go about fulfilling such, but he personally would not be involved in the training evolutions himself.
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* HistoryMarchesOn:
** A key part of the film involves Jordan facing trumped up charges that she is a lesbian, violating the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy which bars openly homosexual people from serving, but has since been repealed.
** An operation takes place in Libya, which is described as "Ghaddafi's backyard" - he is no longer alive for it to be his backyard.
** Roughly fifteen years after the film's release, full gender integration of the US armed forces was announced - but with special units being allowed to figure it out for themselves. This is the inverse of the film's plot, where the Navy [=SEALs=] are forced to do it as a trial for the rest of the armed forces.
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** An operation takes place in Libya, which is described as "Ghaddafi's backyard" - he is no longer alive for it to be his backyard.
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* HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee: Jordan uses the threat of this to get [[spoiler:Senator [=DeHaven=] ]]to drop the trumped-up charges against her.
-->'''Jordan:''' If I have to ask anyone again, [[spoiler:Senator]], I'll be asking on C-SPAN.
-->'''Jordan:''' If I have to ask anyone again, [[spoiler:Senator]], I'll be asking on C-SPAN.
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* AbuseMistake: Jordan and her crew are out celebrating at a bar when she goes to use the restroom. As she washes her hands, another female customer pauses as she passes by and, spotting Jordan's badly bruised face, remarks "Ain't really none of my business, but I say 'leave the bastard'." before exiting, which causes Jordan to laugh. (The abuse really happened, but it was part of her special forces training.)
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** TruthInTelevision: SERE[[note]]Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape[[/note]] school is universally reviled by everyone that goes through it ''and'' everyone that runs it, specifically because normal, reasonable circumstances are thrown out. The only rules are: nothing sexual, and the trainee can't be ''killed''. Everything else is fair game. It messes with the trainees' heads (the thought that "They can't be allowed to do this" takes a while to go away), and the trainers' heads (much like the Milgram experiments, being given absolute control over another human being eventually results in some pretty horrendous behaviour).
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** TruthInTelevision: SERE[[note]]Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape[[/note]] school is universally reviled by everyone that goes through it ''and'' everyone that runs it, specifically because normal, reasonable circumstances are thrown out. The only rules are: nothing sexual, and the trainee can't be ''killed''. Everything else is fair game. It messes with the trainees' heads (the thought that "They can't be allowed to do this" takes a while to go away), and the trainers' heads (much like the Milgram experiments, Stanford Prison Experiment, being given absolute control over another human being eventually results in some pretty horrendous behaviour).
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The film performed rather disappointingly in the box office. It earned $48,169,156 in the United States market, the 39th most successful film of its year, and failed to recoup its budget. Critics felt a major problem was its failure to regard the subject matter sincerely. In a film supposed to "explore the implications of females in the US Military", there is actually very little exploration of the matter. It mainly serves as an excuse for Moore's character to defy gender roles and prove being a badass, not unlike any other action film. There isn't even mention of other women following in her footsteps or anyone else actually undergoing similar tests in another branch (however, see Executive Meddling on the Trivia page). Others pointed there are exactly three characters with any depth to them O' Neil, Urgayle and De Haven. For some, it remains an entertaining action film, but not a deep one.
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Often in reviews, its stated that Jordan is attempting to join the Navy [=SEALs=]. However, in the flim, shes trying to join a fictional Navy special operations team. Although, this is understandable, since the ''Combined Reconnaissance Team'' is [[{{Expy}} all too similar]] to the [=SEALs=].
** This one's a bit complicated, but it still holds true. The CRT is fictional, but many in the movie's universe refer to it as a SEAL Team, when in fact it is a combined arms spec ops unit that is made up mostly of [=SEALs=]. It's more an [[{{Expy}} expy]] of the NSW Developement Group(known as Team 6) than anything.
** This one's a bit complicated, but it still holds true. The CRT is fictional, but many in the movie's universe refer to it as a SEAL Team, when in fact it is a combined arms spec ops unit that is made up mostly of [=SEALs=]. It's more an [[{{Expy}} expy]] of the NSW Developement Group(known as Team 6) than anything.
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** TruthInTelevision: SERE[[note]]Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape[[/note]] school is universally reviled by everyone that goes through it ''and'' everyone that runs it, specifically because normal, reasonable circumstances are thrown out. The only rules are: nothing sexual, and the trainee can't be ''killed''. Everything else is fair game. It messes with the trainees' heads (the thought that "They can't be allowed to do this" takes a while to go away), and the trainers' heads (much like the Milgram experiments, being given absolute control over another human being eventually results in some pretty horrendous behaviour).
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* StarDerailingRole: This was the second under-performing film by Moore, following ''Film/{{Striptease}}''. Both helped undermine her reputation.
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* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: When Urgayle yells at a male trainee.
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--> '''Urgayle''': You. Pencil down, put your feet together, and SIT UP STRAIGHT!
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* MultiTakeCut: Used in the scene in which Jordan shaves her head.
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* FreudWasRight: Discussed by C.O. Salem when he talks about the concessions he's had to make to accomodate Lt. Jordan:
-->'''Salem:''' Most of all what I resent is your perfume, however subtle, interfering with the scent of my fine three dollar and seventy-nine cent cigar, which I will put out this instant if the phallic nature of it happens to offend your '''goddamn fragile sensibilities!'''
-->'''Salem:''' Most of all what I resent is your perfume, however subtle, interfering with the scent of my fine three dollar and seventy-nine cent cigar, which I will put out this instant if the phallic nature of it happens to offend your '''goddamn fragile sensibilities!'''
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* MetaphoricallyTrue: [[spoiler:Jordan cannot pick up Urgayle by herself, but her heroism inspires her squaddies to help get him to safety. This is enough for Urgayle to give his medal.]]
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The Lieutenant has to contend with the brutal training regime of Command Master Chief John James Urgayle (Mortensen), trumped up charges of being a lesbian (violating the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy), attempts to relegate her to desk jobs, and double-crossing allie.allies. Her graduation test involves an actual operation in the Libyan Desert.
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The Lieutenant has to contend with the brutal training regime of Command Master Chief John James Urgayle (Mortensen), trumped up charges of being a lesbian (violating the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy), attempts to relegate her to desk jobs, Senator De Haven' double-cross of her protégé. Her graduation test involves an actual operation in the Libyan Desert.
The film performed rather disappointingly in the box office. It earned $48,169,156 in the United States market, the 39th most successful film of its year. But this was still below its overblown budget. Critics felt a major problem was its failure to regard the subject matter sincerely. In a film supposed to "explore the implications of females in the US Military", there is actually very little exploration of the matter. It mainly serves as an excuse for Moore's character to defy gender roles and prove being a badass. Not unlike any other action film. There isn't even mention of other women following in her footsteps or anyone else actually undergoing similar tests in another branch (however, see Executive Meddling on the Trivia page). Others pointed there are exactly three characters with any depth to them O' Neil, Urgayle and De Haven. Anyone else is scenery. It remains an entertaining action film, but not a deep one.
The film performed rather disappointingly in the box office. It earned $48,169,156 in the United States market, the 39th most successful film of its year. But this was still below its overblown budget. Critics felt a major problem was its failure to regard the subject matter sincerely. In a film supposed to "explore the implications of females in the US Military", there is actually very little exploration of the matter. It mainly serves as an excuse for Moore's character to defy gender roles and prove being a badass. Not unlike any other action film. There isn't even mention of other women following in her footsteps or anyone else actually undergoing similar tests in another branch (however, see Executive Meddling on the Trivia page). Others pointed there are exactly three characters with any depth to them O' Neil, Urgayle and De Haven. Anyone else is scenery. It remains an entertaining action film, but not a deep one.
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The Lieutenant has to contend with the brutal training regime of Command Master Chief John James Urgayle (Mortensen), trumped up charges of being a lesbian (violating the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy), attempts to relegate her to desk jobs, Senator De Haven' double-cross of her protégé.and double-crossing allie. Her graduation test involves an actual operation in the Libyan Desert.
The film performed rather disappointingly in the box office. It earned $48,169,156 in the United States market, the 39th most successful film of itsyear. But this was still below year, and failed to recoup its overblown budget. Critics felt a major problem was its failure to regard the subject matter sincerely. In a film supposed to "explore the implications of females in the US Military", there is actually very little exploration of the matter. It mainly serves as an excuse for Moore's character to defy gender roles and prove being a badass. Not badass, not unlike any other action film. There isn't even mention of other women following in her footsteps or anyone else actually undergoing similar tests in another branch (however, see Executive Meddling on the Trivia page). Others pointed there are exactly three characters with any depth to them O' Neil, Urgayle and De Haven. Anyone else is scenery. It For some, it remains an entertaining action film, but not a deep one.
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* DoubleStandard: Jordan receives preferential treatment in her training at first such as being allowed an additional thirty seconds to finish a training course and being given an aid step for an obstacle, until she goes to her CO and points out that this is only making her male comrades resent her and defeats the purpose of the argument that women are equal, and demands it stop.
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** Jordan receives preferential treatment in her training at first such as being allowed an additional thirty seconds to finish a training course and being given an aid step for an obstacle, until she goes to her CO and points out that this is only making her male comrades resent her and defeats the purpose of the argument that women are equal, and demands it stop.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: Command Master Chief John James "Jack" Urgayle is a more sedate, erudite version, but no less nasty. He also personally conducts torture on Jordan for SERE training.
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G. I. Jane is a 1997 action film, directed by RidleyScott. The main stars were DemiMoore and ViggoMortensen.
Senator Lillian De Haven of Texas (AnneBancroft) publicly criticizes the United States Navy for its failure to integrate both male and female recruits to all its services. She strikes a deal, arranging for a series of test cases. A single woman will join each branch currently fully-staffed by males service and try to perform as well as her male colleagues. The first test case has Lieutenant Jordan O' Neil (Moore) joining the U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team.
The Lieutenant has to contend with the brutal training regime of Command Master Chief John James Urgayle (Mortensen), trumped up charges of being a lesbian (violating the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy), attempts to relegate her to desk jobs, Senator De Haven' double-cross of her protégé. Her graduation test involves an actual operation in the Libyan Desert.
The film performed rather disappointingly in the box office. It earned $48,169,156 in the United States market, the 39th most successful film of its year. But this was still below its overblown budget. Critics felt a major problem was its failure to regard the subject matter sincerely. In a film supposed to "explore the implications of females in the US Military", there is actually very little exploration of the matter. It mainly serves as an excuse for Moore's character to defy gender roles and prove being a badass. Not unlike any other action film. There isn't even mention of other women following in her footsteps or anyone else actually undergoing similar tests in another branch (however, see Executive Meddling on the Trivia page). Others pointed there are exactly three characters with any depth to them O' Neil, Urgayle and De Haven. Anyone else is scenery. It remains an entertaining action film, but not a deep one.
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* AllAbusersAreMale: Averted but mentioned. Jordan has a black eye (among other injuries) after her POW training. While at a bar in the bathroom, a fellow female bar patron sees it and says [[AbuseMistake "Not that it's any of my business, but I'd say dump the bastard."]]
* ArtisticLicenseBasicTraining / ArtisticLicenseStatistics: In an attempt to see if women can serve in combat duty, the [=DoD=] lets one woman try SEAL training. The course, as stated in the movie, has a 60% failure rate, meaning you'd need a sample size of at least three to even pretend you've got a realistic bearing.
* BaldOfAwesome: Jordan's shaved head is spotlighted as essential to her training.
* BaldWomen: Jordan.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Jordan gets beaten all to hell during SERE training and has large grazes and scabs on her face for several scenes following.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Command Master Chief John James Urgayle is Captain Smooth (only once does he ever bark at a trainee), while his two subordinate instructors jointly fill the Sergeant Rough position.
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: The fact that Jordan used to be a Navy officer coordinating operations.]]
* CorruptPolitician: Senator [=DeHaven=]
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Often in reviews, its stated that Jordan is attempting to join the Navy [=SEALs=]. However, in the flim, shes trying to join a fictional Navy special operations team. Although, this is understandable, since the ''Combined Reconnaissance Team'' is [[{{Expy}} all too similar]] to the [=SEALs=].
** This one's a bit complicated, but it still holds true. The CRT is fictional, but many in the movie's universe refer to it as a SEAL Team, when in fact it is a combined arms spec ops unit that is made up mostly of [=SEALs=]. It's more an [[{{Expy}} expy]] of the NSW Developement Group(known as Team 6) than anything.
* TheDeterminator: Jordan
* DoubleStandard: Jordan receives preferential treatment in her training at first such as being allowed an additional thirty seconds to finish a training course and being given an aid step for an obstacle, until she goes to her CO and points out that this is only making her male comrades resent her and defeats the purpose of the argument that women are equal, and demands it stop.
** When Lt. Blondell, Jordan's physician, asks her why she's going through the training, Jordan asks if Blondell asks the men the same thing. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], Blondell replies that she does ask the men the same question.
** During the POW training the interrogation instructor [[WouldntHitAGirl doesn't want to harm Jordan]], but Urgayle, understanding the necessity, has no such reservations and proceeds to beat her mercilessly, and even asks her while he has a headlock on her if he thinks they should treat the women differently to which Jordan screams, "Never!"
* DrillSergeantNasty: Command Master Chief John James "Jack" Urgayle is a more sedate, erudite version, but no less nasty.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Not stated outright but the RealLife equivalent of women in the military is used by Urgayle when he brutally beats Jordan in front of the male trainees during POW training in order to get information from them, and it proves more effective than interrogating the male trainees themselves, as they are clearly about to crack.
* ForbiddenFruit: Jordan tells her boyfriend that the more she is tried to be forced out of the program, the more she wants to complete it.
* ForcedToWatch: As part of their POW training, Urgayle brutally beats and attempts to rape Jordan in front on the male trainees in order to get them to give up information.
* GenderIsNoObject: The film's [[AnAesop aesop]] is that militaries should be this way.
* HistoryMarchesOn: A key part of the film involves Jordan facing trumped up charges that she is a lesbian, violating the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy which bars openly homosexual people from serving, but has since been repealed.
* ImportantHaircut: Jordan shaves her head during her special operations training.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Used on the trainees during their POW training, most notably by Urgayle on Jordan.
* JackieRobinsonStory: Pretty much the entire plot.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Jordan discusses this with Senator [=DeHaven=] after [=DeHaven=] reveals [[spoiler: she had never intended for Jordan to succeed in the program, and it was all just a ruse to score political points.]]
--> '''[=DeHaven=]''': The truth is, the choice isn't yours, and it isn't mine. American families are just not prepared to have their daughters and young mothers in harm's way.
--> '''Jordan''': You don't know that.
--> '''[=DeHaven=]''': Yes, I do. Roper, Paris, Gallup, all the polls, they all come back the same way.
-->'''Jordan''': What are you saying? That a woman's life is more valuable than a man's? That a woman's death is more hurtful than a man's?
-->'''[=DeHaven=]''': No politician can afford to let women come home in body bags, especially me.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. When Jordan moves into the male barracks, Cortez is disgusted when he finds a box of tampons.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "SUCK... MY... DICK!" Made into a CrowningMomentOfAwesome by the fact that a shorn-haired and yet STILL uber-beddable DemiMoore (yes, a woman) is shouting it -- and into the face of a BadAss, SuperSoldier of a NAVY SEAL who's acting as TheObiWan and had spent the last few minutes [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kicking the crap]] [[WouldHitAGirl out of her]].
* RapeAsDrama[=/=]RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: During the POW training, when Urgayle is brutally beating Jordan in front of the male trainees, he starts to cut off her pants as if he's about to rape her, simulating what would most likely happen if they were captured for real.
* SensitivityTraining: Before the title character starts SEAL training, all of the instructors have to receive sensitivity training so they know not to sexually harass her.
* ShowerScene: Jordan showers while Urgayle talks to her.
* StarDerailingRole: This was the second under-performing film by Moore, following ''Film/{{Striptease}}''. Both helped undermine her reputation.
* TheSquadette: Jordan.
* StuffBlowingUp: When Lt. Blondell, Jordan's physician, asks her why she's going through the training.
--> '''Jordan''' [[DoubleStandard Do you ask the men the same question]]?
--> '''Blondell''' As a matter of fact, yes, I do ask them.
--> '''Jordan''' And what do they say?
--> '''Blondell''' Cause I get to blow shit up.
--> '''Jordan''' Well, there you go.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: When Urgayle yells at a male trainee.
--> '''Urgayle''': You. Pencil down, put your feet together, and SIT UP STRAIGHT!
* ThingsGetReal
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Not stated outright, but Urgayle mentions how waterboarding is a very effective interrogation technique while Jordan is having it done on her for a training exercise.
* TrainingFromHell: Jordan experiences Navy SEAL training, which is generally considered among the toughest, if not the toughest, training in the US military, including actual tortures like waterboarding (so they can learn to withstand torture if they fall into enemy hands).
* WouldHitAGirl / WouldntHitAGirl: During the POW training the interrogation instructor doesn't want to harm Jordan, but Urgayle, understanding the necessity, has no such reservations and proceeds to beat her mercilessly.
G. I. Jane is a 1997 action film, directed by RidleyScott. The main stars were DemiMoore and ViggoMortensen.
Senator Lillian De Haven of Texas (AnneBancroft) publicly criticizes the United States Navy for its failure to integrate both male and female recruits to all its services. She strikes a deal, arranging for a series of test cases. A single woman will join each branch currently fully-staffed by males service and try to perform as well as her male colleagues. The first test case has Lieutenant Jordan O' Neil (Moore) joining the U.S. Navy Combined Reconnaissance Team.
The Lieutenant has to contend with the brutal training regime of Command Master Chief John James Urgayle (Mortensen), trumped up charges of being a lesbian (violating the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy), attempts to relegate her to desk jobs, Senator De Haven' double-cross of her protégé. Her graduation test involves an actual operation in the Libyan Desert.
The film performed rather disappointingly in the box office. It earned $48,169,156 in the United States market, the 39th most successful film of its year. But this was still below its overblown budget. Critics felt a major problem was its failure to regard the subject matter sincerely. In a film supposed to "explore the implications of females in the US Military", there is actually very little exploration of the matter. It mainly serves as an excuse for Moore's character to defy gender roles and prove being a badass. Not unlike any other action film. There isn't even mention of other women following in her footsteps or anyone else actually undergoing similar tests in another branch (however, see Executive Meddling on the Trivia page). Others pointed there are exactly three characters with any depth to them O' Neil, Urgayle and De Haven. Anyone else is scenery. It remains an entertaining action film, but not a deep one.
!!The film features examples of:
* AllAbusersAreMale: Averted but mentioned. Jordan has a black eye (among other injuries) after her POW training. While at a bar in the bathroom, a fellow female bar patron sees it and says [[AbuseMistake "Not that it's any of my business, but I'd say dump the bastard."]]
* ArtisticLicenseBasicTraining / ArtisticLicenseStatistics: In an attempt to see if women can serve in combat duty, the [=DoD=] lets one woman try SEAL training. The course, as stated in the movie, has a 60% failure rate, meaning you'd need a sample size of at least three to even pretend you've got a realistic bearing.
* BaldOfAwesome: Jordan's shaved head is spotlighted as essential to her training.
* BaldWomen: Jordan.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Jordan gets beaten all to hell during SERE training and has large grazes and scabs on her face for several scenes following.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Command Master Chief John James Urgayle is Captain Smooth (only once does he ever bark at a trainee), while his two subordinate instructors jointly fill the Sergeant Rough position.
* ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler: The fact that Jordan used to be a Navy officer coordinating operations.]]
* CorruptPolitician: Senator [=DeHaven=]
* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Often in reviews, its stated that Jordan is attempting to join the Navy [=SEALs=]. However, in the flim, shes trying to join a fictional Navy special operations team. Although, this is understandable, since the ''Combined Reconnaissance Team'' is [[{{Expy}} all too similar]] to the [=SEALs=].
** This one's a bit complicated, but it still holds true. The CRT is fictional, but many in the movie's universe refer to it as a SEAL Team, when in fact it is a combined arms spec ops unit that is made up mostly of [=SEALs=]. It's more an [[{{Expy}} expy]] of the NSW Developement Group(known as Team 6) than anything.
* TheDeterminator: Jordan
* DoubleStandard: Jordan receives preferential treatment in her training at first such as being allowed an additional thirty seconds to finish a training course and being given an aid step for an obstacle, until she goes to her CO and points out that this is only making her male comrades resent her and defeats the purpose of the argument that women are equal, and demands it stop.
** When Lt. Blondell, Jordan's physician, asks her why she's going through the training, Jordan asks if Blondell asks the men the same thing. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], Blondell replies that she does ask the men the same question.
** During the POW training the interrogation instructor [[WouldntHitAGirl doesn't want to harm Jordan]], but Urgayle, understanding the necessity, has no such reservations and proceeds to beat her mercilessly, and even asks her while he has a headlock on her if he thinks they should treat the women differently to which Jordan screams, "Never!"
* DrillSergeantNasty: Command Master Chief John James "Jack" Urgayle is a more sedate, erudite version, but no less nasty.
* TheDulcineaEffect: Not stated outright but the RealLife equivalent of women in the military is used by Urgayle when he brutally beats Jordan in front of the male trainees during POW training in order to get information from them, and it proves more effective than interrogating the male trainees themselves, as they are clearly about to crack.
* ForbiddenFruit: Jordan tells her boyfriend that the more she is tried to be forced out of the program, the more she wants to complete it.
* ForcedToWatch: As part of their POW training, Urgayle brutally beats and attempts to rape Jordan in front on the male trainees in order to get them to give up information.
* GenderIsNoObject: The film's [[AnAesop aesop]] is that militaries should be this way.
* HistoryMarchesOn: A key part of the film involves Jordan facing trumped up charges that she is a lesbian, violating the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy which bars openly homosexual people from serving, but has since been repealed.
* ImportantHaircut: Jordan shaves her head during her special operations training.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Used on the trainees during their POW training, most notably by Urgayle on Jordan.
* JackieRobinsonStory: Pretty much the entire plot.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Jordan discusses this with Senator [=DeHaven=] after [=DeHaven=] reveals [[spoiler: she had never intended for Jordan to succeed in the program, and it was all just a ruse to score political points.]]
--> '''[=DeHaven=]''': The truth is, the choice isn't yours, and it isn't mine. American families are just not prepared to have their daughters and young mothers in harm's way.
--> '''Jordan''': You don't know that.
--> '''[=DeHaven=]''': Yes, I do. Roper, Paris, Gallup, all the polls, they all come back the same way.
-->'''Jordan''': What are you saying? That a woman's life is more valuable than a man's? That a woman's death is more hurtful than a man's?
-->'''[=DeHaven=]''': No politician can afford to let women come home in body bags, especially me.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. When Jordan moves into the male barracks, Cortez is disgusted when he finds a box of tampons.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "SUCK... MY... DICK!" Made into a CrowningMomentOfAwesome by the fact that a shorn-haired and yet STILL uber-beddable DemiMoore (yes, a woman) is shouting it -- and into the face of a BadAss, SuperSoldier of a NAVY SEAL who's acting as TheObiWan and had spent the last few minutes [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kicking the crap]] [[WouldHitAGirl out of her]].
* RapeAsDrama[=/=]RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: During the POW training, when Urgayle is brutally beating Jordan in front of the male trainees, he starts to cut off her pants as if he's about to rape her, simulating what would most likely happen if they were captured for real.
* SensitivityTraining: Before the title character starts SEAL training, all of the instructors have to receive sensitivity training so they know not to sexually harass her.
* ShowerScene: Jordan showers while Urgayle talks to her.
* StarDerailingRole: This was the second under-performing film by Moore, following ''Film/{{Striptease}}''. Both helped undermine her reputation.
* TheSquadette: Jordan.
* StuffBlowingUp: When Lt. Blondell, Jordan's physician, asks her why she's going through the training.
--> '''Jordan''' [[DoubleStandard Do you ask the men the same question]]?
--> '''Blondell''' As a matter of fact, yes, I do ask them.
--> '''Jordan''' And what do they say?
--> '''Blondell''' Cause I get to blow shit up.
--> '''Jordan''' Well, there you go.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: When Urgayle yells at a male trainee.
--> '''Urgayle''': You. Pencil down, put your feet together, and SIT UP STRAIGHT!
* ThingsGetReal
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Not stated outright, but Urgayle mentions how waterboarding is a very effective interrogation technique while Jordan is having it done on her for a training exercise.
* TrainingFromHell: Jordan experiences Navy SEAL training, which is generally considered among the toughest, if not the toughest, training in the US military, including actual tortures like waterboarding (so they can learn to withstand torture if they fall into enemy hands).
* WouldHitAGirl / WouldntHitAGirl: During the POW training the interrogation instructor doesn't want to harm Jordan, but Urgayle, understanding the necessity, has no such reservations and proceeds to beat her mercilessly.
