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Factual error: Grace was supposedly a captain in the Marines and a dog handler. Dog handlers in the Marines are not officers. They are junior enlisted personnel (E-3 through E-5). Also, they must first hold the Military Police MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) (5811), after which they may add the Military Working Dog Handler MOS (5812) as a secondary MOS.

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Bring My Baby Home - S7-E20

Factual error: The Air Force "Captain" whose wife kidnaps the baby is shown in the uniform of a Senior Airman, an enlisted man (not an officer), 8 ranks below Captain.

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Factual error: The movie takes place in 1968, and Frank Beardsley is supposedly developing the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (FLOLS) for aircraft carriers. The system actually was developed by the British and was installed on US carriers starting in 1955.

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Factual error: Kimball's jump from the top of the dam spillway would not be survivable. Hitting the water from that height would be like hitting concrete and would basically tear the body apart.

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Factual error: Mozart was not buried in a mass grave, but in a "common grave," which means an individual grave for commoners, as opposed to the aristocracy.

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Factual error: Mozart and Constanze are depicted as having only one child, a son. In reality, the couple had six children, although only two of them survived past infancy.

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Mr. Monk Is Underwater - S7-E5

Factual error: The clip of a submarine surfacing near the end of the episode does not show a normal surfacing; it shows a submarine that has blown its ballast tanks using high-pressure air, which is an emergency procedure that is practised only occasionally. The reason it is not done routinely is because the submarine comes up like a cork with very little control.

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Mr. Monk Is Underwater - S7-E5

Factual error: One of the most common firearm tropes on TV and in movies is that using a suppressor (aka, "silencer") reduces a gunshot to a whisper. In reality, a suppressor (either commercial or homemade) only reduces the sound of a gunshot from as loud as a jet taking off to "merely" as loud as a jackhammer.

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Mr. Monk Is Underwater - S7-E5

Factual error: Smoking is not permitted on a nuclear submarine; in fact, the atmosphere is so tightly controlled that not even shoe polish is allowed. Also, alcoholic beverages are prohibited.

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Mr. Monk Is Underwater - S7-E5

Factual error: Officers do not wear their summer whites on board a submarine. Although navy working uniforms have changed since this episode of Monk was made, at the time, all personnel on submarines, both officer and enlisted, wore the same type of dark blue coveralls when on board. Rank was distinguished by pin-on devices on the collars.

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Mr. Monk Is Underwater - S7-E5

Factual error: In the episode, the submarine dives almost as soon as it is underway. Submarines do not dive until the water is at least 600 feet deep.

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Mr. Monk Is Underwater - S7-E5

Factual error: Nuclear submarines do not get underway on the spur of the moment. It takes hours to make preparations for getting underway. Also, the submarine would not get underway until a new executive officer had been assigned.

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Mr. Monk Is Underwater - S7-E5

Factual error: The captain's stateroom shown in the episode is palatial compared to reality.

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Mr. Monk Is Underwater - S7-E5

Factual error: Attack submarines, like the one in the episode, do not have a medical officer on board. They have only what is called an Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC), who is a senior enlisted Hospital Corpsman and has had an additional year of special training to care for the medical needs of the crew, both routine and emergency.

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Mr. Monk Is Underwater - S7-E5

Factual error: One does not simply walk onto a nuclear submarine. Security is very tight, access is strictly controlled, and visitors are escorted at all times and are restricted from seeing certain areas. In this episode, whenever the exterior of the submarine is shown, there is no sign of an Officer of the Deck or a Petty Officer of the Watch, much less any security personnel nearby.

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Factual error: When Holman and Frenchy go to the Red Cattle to buy Maily, they are wearing undress whites. Since they are on liberty, they should be wearing dress whites, like Holman was wearing at the beginning of the movie.

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Factual error: When the San Pablo's main gun is firing at the junks, the gun does not recoil at all.

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Factual error: The household robot that runs amok fires 8 shots from a 6-round capacity revolver.

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Mr. Monk and the Astronaut - S4-E14

Factual error: When Monk is running alongside the F/A-22 (now just F-22), he is so close that if Wagner had throttled up the engines a bit, Monk would have been sucked into the engine air intake. Here is a video of just such an accident on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF55oyAJDBk.

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Factual error: The vertical steel I-beams in the command centre are riddled, as it were, with rivets, but the rivets do not attach the I-beams to anything and are obviously just set decoration.

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