About 'Junior'

I think Junior was the worst of the characters, by far! He was downright rude, ignorant, cowardly, lazy, and racist. He would have been better off as a Black Panther. Even near the end when he broke down because Barnes refused to let him go on the chopper, I still couldn't sympathize with him.

Actually, there is one other character that comes close, a minor one by the name of Morehouse. He was the one raping the girl at the village. When Lt Wolfe comes and pays the guys a visit in the hooch, he just stares down at his cards with a cigarette in his mouth and belches. I was satisfied when he was blown up with his own artillery. Maybe Wolfe did call the wrong coordinates so he'd get killed, LOL

And of course Barnes was no sweetheart, but he had reasons for being the way he was and had been in the field for over 4 years.

Okay, my top list of a'holes in the movie, in order:

1. Junior
2. Morehouse
3. Hoyt
4. Barnes
5. Bunny

Notice they are all in Barnes' hooch at the camp boozing and all the good guys are smoking weed? LOL. Good ole Oliver Stone!

SSG Barnes showed emotion...even had kind parting words as well.

junior is a whiny lame-ass, but i think johnson's great in the role. the whole damn cast is great. not a lightweight among them. but i'd say the more homicidal soldiers are worse than the cowards. barnes had some depth, but that doesn't excuse his actions as a semi-suicidal psycho, driven crazy by his unapologetic hatred of the enemy. the man had witnessed way too many deaths of his men (notice his scenes when sanderson and sal are killed and they find manny's body) and went bollocks. this explains things, but doesn't excuse them. bunny's a prick, seemingly a young punk set loose to do anything he wants and has now become sadistic and vicious (if he's not killing people, he kills animals). this makes them both worse than junior, who belongs in the coward category. even then, junior takes a backseat to o'neill and arguably wolfe, who are not just cowards, but either total ass-kissers or *beep* junior's full of *beep* when he falls asleep on watch and blames taylor, but o'neill talks a lotta *beep* he can't back up and throws around his slightly higher-rank like he's more important than he actually is. wolfe's no delight either as a pathetic, ineffective leader who's not only scared of everyone, but walked over by freaks like barnes and called out on his *beep* by real soldiers like elias. junior was someone who just badly needed his ass kicked and sent on his way. he, at least, acknowledges how crazy barnes and bunny are after the village slaughter. junior's irritating as hell, but o'neill and wolfe are just as chicken *beep* also, barnes shoots elias...that makes him far worse than junior.

Bunny was a bit of a psycho like Barnes. Junior was a coward