Too many movies about training have to tack on the usage of said training at the end of the film. Often it's contrived, and it has become cliche. Stripes did it. Every movie about kids going to space camp certainly has kids going into space...somehow. Top Gun, as mentioned.
A movie that did it realistically, though made it seem like two entirely different films was Full Metal Jacket. Not that it had to seem like a different film, but Vincent D'onofrio and R. Lee Ermy stole all the scenes in the first part of the film.
As they would uncreatively say on the Tropes website, "this trope was subverted" in the film Private Benjamin where Goldie Hawn leaves boot camp... to do pretty much nothing but screw some rich guy in Germany and then quit the Army.
A more realistic portrayal would be to show her finishing the training, and then skip some years down the road showing her using her training, perhaps in a top secret operation that required her analytic skills as well as direct combat training.
One reason movies often utilize the emergency call to arms trope where all the trainees are now the only hope, is that it's pretty much the only way you could justify all the same characters still being around and working together. Otherwise everyone would go their separate ways after training. Stripes ignored this logical aspect and instead had all the main characters go to exactly the same duty station after boot camp.
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