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Casey Ryback (Seagal) is [[Almighty Janitor|a valued cook]] on the USS ''Missouri'', which is undergoing one last party in Pearl Harbor before it goes to [[San Francisco]] to be decommissioned. The captain of the ship wanted Seagal to show up in his dress whites with full decorations, but he refused; he eventually said that the captain's birthday was tomorrow and he needed to make bouillabaisse for it, which lets him off the hook.
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* [[Artistic License Military]]: This is a Steven Seagal movie set on a warship so you can expect quite a lot of this, but several significant points ''not'' related to the fight scenes are:
** The rationale for Seagal's presence on board. At that time, Navy SEALs first went through training for one of the more normal Navy jobs (or 'rates'), ''then'' applied for SEAL training. If he had lost his security clearance they could simply have sent him back to be assigned in his initial rate (or discharged him, but its implied that the captain pulled strings to keep him in). Forgivable in that nothing stops his initial rate from having actually been MS (Mess Steward, or cook).
*** Still flawed in the "only a yeoman or a cook" logic, though. One, there's a lot of potential jobs that require only the lowest level of security clearance. Menial jobs, mostly, but they're still jobs. (We even see one in the movie - the sailor who complains that his only military experience is running the ship's laundry.) But the thing is, Yeoman is ''not'' one of those jobs. As the rate concerned with administration and paperwork, a YN pretty much needs a Secret clearance at minimum because there is a lot of information you can pick up just by reading all the routine paperwork
** After someone punches a senior officer in front of multiple witnesses, it would not take an order from the captain to put that someone in the brig. The captain should admittedly still be ''notified'' of such an occurrence, which Krill would still be anxious to avoid.
** An order to lock someone in a freezer should be questionable. An order to lock someone up after its been specifically pointed out that the officer in question allegedly does not have the authority to lock someone up is even more questionable. Just barely justifiable in that a private fresh out of
*** Ryan Szimanski, curator of ''Missouri'''s sister ship ''New Jersey'', notes it's also ''physically'' impossible: The only walk in freezers on an ''Iowa'' class are part of the ''enlisted'' galley (sticking someone in a freezer in the officer's galley requires something more akin to [[Stuffed Into a Locker]]), ''and'' those have an emergency gong system for anyone locked inside.
* [[Berserk Button]]: It's not really a good idea to spit in Ryback's soup. He takes it kind of personally.
* [[BFG]]: The 16" guns of the Missouri. Which Ryback uses to sink the sub.
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* [[Cutting the Knot]]: In the sequel, one of the hijackers informs Casey that he's too late to stop the [[Kill Sat]] at that, even if he weren't, he'll ''never'' be able to crack the encryption on his laptop to do it. Casey's solution? Shoot the cell phone that was sustaining the laptop's wireless connection to the satellite control systems.
* [[Da Chief]]: Averted by Admiral Bates in the first film. Upon finding out that Ryback has ignored his orders to avoid contact if possible and is busy trying to kill all the terrorists himself, the Admiral's response is thus:
{{quote|'''Admiral Bates:''' (as the sound of automatic weapons fire is clearly audible over the radio) Chief Ryback, this is Admiral Bates. I see you
'''Chief Ryback:''' (while shooting) I'm sorry, sir, you can court-martial me if I live, sir!
'''Admiral Bates:'''
* [[Darkened Building Shootout]]
* [[Defensive Feint Trap]]
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Strannix goes completely insane after Krill is killed, firing ''cruise missiles'' randomly. Shell shock from the deck gun blasts probably contributes, but still. Dane in 2 also has a bit of a breakdown when the [[Kill Sat]] CD is stolen, but goes back to normal when he gets it back. Of course, he has another one once Ryback starts messing his plans up big time.
** Not ''that'' randomly in Under Siege 1 -- given where the ship is, Honolulu is the only large city within Tomahawk range at the time.
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