[Music]
war is hell but then so is Hollywood
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
celebrities you didn’t know served in
the military I got a hundred our bill
friends keep your kills all the soul
for this list we’ll be looking at
celebrities and famous faces of all
sorts who have a surprising or unlikely
military history not all of the
celebrities on today’s list will have
seen conflict but all had a real roll
rank and position in the military before
and unrelated to their eventual fame
note that we’ve tried to be as accurate
as possible with the dates but some of
them were difficult to verify 100% how
often in the civilian world are you put
in a life-or-death situation when you
with your closest friends and they
constantly demonstrate that they’re not
going to abandon you and meanwhile it
acting school
number 10 private first class Hugh
Hefner United States Army sex and the
attraction between the sexes does make
the world go round
known today as the commanding officer of
a platoon of lingerie clad playmates
Hugh Hefner’s earliest years of
adulthood were spent in the service of
Uncle Sam the bunnies felt we should go
this way
smart bunnies Hef armed with a reported
IQ of 152 despite his teachers feeling
that he lacked enthusiasm Hefner
graduated high school in 1944 and
enlisted in the army soon after
officially a clerk and typist have spent
much of the war writing and drawing
cartoons for various military
publications until his discharge in 1946
it was an all pencil-pushing and
daydreams however private Hefner earned
a sharpshooter badge for his prowess
with the m1 rifle and also graduated
from live grenade training otherwise
known as killer college fully intact so
you still have three or four girl four
yes I do
um they keep they keep me young number
nine Lance Corporal Adam driver United
States Marine Corps and you were a
Marine yeah okay following the 9/11
terror attacks the future kylo Ren actor
sought to serve in arguably the toughest
branch of the American military the US
Marine Corps serving in the weapons
company of the 1st battalion 1st Marines
the one one driver was assigned to the
81-millimeter mortar section but saw no
field service after breaking his sternum
in a mountain biking accident the
eventual master
the Knights of Ren was medically
discharged shortly before his unit was
deployed for service in the Iraq war
driver credits his time in the Marine
Corps for giving him the confidence to
do anything including Rhianna shinning
for Juilliard which he did about a year
after his discharge I was a marine I
knew how to survive I would go to New
York and become an actor and if things
didn’t work out I’d live in Central Park
and dumpster dive behind Panera Bread
number eight Captain James Blunt British
Army yeah sponsored through University
by the British Army
James Blunt was required to serve in the
military for a minimum of four years and
did so admirably and I used to be in a
business in the army was dealt with life
and death and those were very real to
suddenly had to try and concentrate on
him unfailing fortune I sometimes
struggle with it trained at the Royal
Military Academy in Sandhurst as well as
the British Army training units afield
in Alberta Canada the singer was
eventually commissioned by the Life
Guards a reconnaissance unit in 1999
blunt volunteered to take part in NATO’s
mission in Kosovo it was there that the
captain may have single-handedly
prevented an escalation in the already
complicated conflict you actually
single-handedly when you were in Kosovo
stopped world war three from happening
I’m glad you brought this up after
leading 30,000 people from the Macedonia
border to an airport almost 10 miles
outside the Kasavin capital blunt and
company found it was held by the
Russians
no bravery
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better mall when American General Wesley
Clark ordered him to gain control of the
airport by force Blount refused and
eventually the Russians agreed to share
the facility in exchange for food and
water and when the Russians run out of
food and water they came back and asked
us if we could have food and water we
said sure if you share the airport
number seven corporal Mel Brooks United
States Army seventeen years old and
still known as Melvin Kaminsky Brooks
was tested and placed in the elite army
specialized training program at the
Virginia Military Institute in 1944
there he not only had his first
cheeseburger but also gained what he
called a code of honor and behavior
trained in saber wielding and
horsemanship among other skills the
future comedian eventually became a
combat engineer in the eleven hundred
and fourth Engineer combat group in the
78th Infantry Division tasked with
defusing landmines Brooks took part in
the infamous battle of the Bulge but
also engaged in some unsanctioned
ideology battles with the Nazis when the
Germans hit allied troops with
propaganda Brooks allegedly took it upon
himself to assemble a sound system and
hit back by playing music by Jewish
composer Al Jolson and I actually heard
yeah so much Rachel sure they really
liked it you know I think I’d say I
think I could have ended the war right
then and there but General Patton is
somebody kept going number six
sergeant drew Carey United States Marine
Corps Reserve that was the happiest
rings I was getting three meals a day
which I didn’t have before I was on my
own not living on my brother’s couch
it’s hard to picture the bane of Mimi’s
existence ever having a military career
but with his horn rimmed glasses and
crew cut all the signs were right out in
the open as it happens Kerry acquired
both during his time in the 3rd
battalion 25th Marine Regiment where he
served as a field radio operator it was
during this time that Kerry began
dabbling in comedy mostly as a way to
make some extra money Kerry stayed in
the reserves for six years until his
comedy career began to pick up but he
repaid his gratitude to the forces by
partnering up with the USO to entertain
the troops
all right folks enjoy the expo have a
good race and I’ll see you
see you Sunday okay god bless December 5
number 5 private first class Jimi
Hendrix United States Army
[Music]
just like Jerry Garcia of the Grateful
Dead Jimi Hendrix was a great guitar
player but a terrible soldier in lieu of
serving jail time after he was found in
a stolen car for the second time James
Marshall Hendrix enlisted in the Army on
May 31st 1961
this man was in 101st airborne so when
you write your nasty letters in
eventually becoming a paratrooper in the
101st Airborne Division Hendricks didn’t
go for the whole rules thing rarely
turning up for bed checks requiring
constant supervision and often getting
shut-eye while on duty
Jimmy’s military performance only got
worse when he asked his father to send
him his guitar after the instrument
arrived private Hendrix would stay in
his bunk and jam that is unless his
fellow soldiers hid it from him Jimmy’s
commitment to the sixth string
resulted in him being discharged after
only one year of his three-year
enlistment
although he would later claim it was a
broken ankle that did him in
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you
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number four specialist for ice-t United
States Army but this face you don’t need
a pride just a temple to keep you hight
tired of selling pot and stealing car
stereos and with a daughter to support
Tracy Mero also known as ice-t joined
the army and found himself in the 25th
Infantry Division tea served in the Army
for four years completed advanced
infantry training and even became squad
leader during his time at the Schofield
Barracks Hawaii his old lifestyle didn’t
completely leave him however and ice-t
was hit with charges for the theft of a
rug and received disciplinary action for
going AWOL around the same time it’s so
easy to make bad decisions your brain
just says so what off-duty Merrill
finally made a good investment when he
bought turntable equipment to explore
his then growing interest in hip hop t
returned to civilian life four months
early in 1983 when he learned that being
a single father entitled him to an early
discharge
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number three Ruth Westheimer Israel
Defense Forces tire good morning tonight
except that I’m on your shoulder best
known as an adorable accented
sex-obsessed tiny old lady dr. Ruth was
once an adorable accented sex-obsessed
tiny sharpshooter after losing her
parents to the Holocaust Westheimer
found her way to Palestine not long
before Israel declared its independence
when war kicked off
Ruth joined the Hagana a Jewish
paramilitary organization and a
precursor to the Israel Defense Forces
we’re owing to her tiny 4 foot 7 inch
frame she was made a scout and sniper I
can still put five bullets in the red
circle and for hundreds so be very
careful even though she was an excellent
shot dr. Ruth has no recorded kills
although she was nearly killed herself
when a shell exploded near her on her
20th birthday no less leaving her badly
wounded when she recovered
Ruth moved to France to further her
education before immigrating to America
in 1956 now a man is very uncomfortable
physically in a woman’s apartment so a
man will you know maybe I’ll not true a
lady might have an addiction or
something like that is that is what I
was getting to yes number two airman
third class George Carlin United States
Air Force this country has been pushing
up with a world around and exploiting
the people of the world for a long long
time and sometimes you have to pay the
piper if you thought the only time
George Carlin spent in uniform was when
he played mr. conductor you’d be wrong
very wrong yes
Ringo’s shining time station replacement
actually spent three years in the United
States Air Force as a radar technician
after dropping out of high school
Carlin enlisted with the intent of using
his GI Bill to fund his way through
broadcasting school as the man was
famously profane profound and
anti-authoritarian Carlin’s time in the
military went about as well as you’d
expect stationed at Barksdale Air Force
Base in Bossier City Louisiana airman
George was deemed quote unproductive and
court-martialed on three occasions this
might have been due to his tendency to
disc jockey
add a nearby radio station while on
active duty we may never know thanks for
being here with me for a little while
today before we unveil our number one
pick here are some honorable mentions
[Applause]
so I saw it well I’m not gonna be a
waiter or Top Gun and I thought I’d be
top job I work in the public school
system it’s not that different from
number one Master Sergeant Bob Ross
United States Air Force and here and
there there’s little stones under there
that caused it to go it may not be a
tightly held secret that Bob Ross was in
the military but that doesn’t make it
any less surprising and just begin
making all those fluffy little little
things on top of the cloud after
quitting school in grade 9
Ross joined the Air Force and served as
a medical records technician before
eventually working his way up through
the ranks to the position of first
sergeant of Eielson Air Force Base
stationed in Alaska sergeant Ross
learned and started to develop his
signature wet on wet painting style so
he could paint quickly while on break
during this time and it’s fun to prepare
this canvas when nobody’s looking and
when you do this especially if you’re
painting for someone they think it’s
magic holding the rank of Master
Sergeant however he was anything but the
happy little tree we all know and love
instead he was a typical screamin and
authoritative drill sergeant are you
through great thank you sir go get a kid
here you are you third after 20 years of
shouting and making other people clean
toilets
Ross vowed to never scream again and
took up painting full-time think we’re
gonna call that one finished from all of
us here I’d like to wish you happy
painting and God bless my friend do you
agree with our list which celebrities
military record surprised you the most
for more guns a-blazing and totally AWOL
top 10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
and my rifle lesson my god this
[Music]
war is hell but then so is Hollywood
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
celebrities you didn’t know served in
the military I got a hundred our bill
friends keep your kills all the soul
for this list we’ll be looking at
celebrities and famous faces of all
sorts who have a surprising or unlikely
military history not all of the
celebrities on today’s list will have
seen conflict but all had a real roll
rank and position in the military before
and unrelated to their eventual fame
note that we’ve tried to be as accurate
as possible with the dates but some of
them were difficult to verify 100% how
often in the civilian world are you put
in a life-or-death situation when you
with your closest friends and they
constantly demonstrate that they’re not
going to abandon you and meanwhile it
acting school
number 10 private first class Hugh
Hefner United States Army sex and the
attraction between the sexes does make
the world go round
known today as the commanding officer of
a platoon of lingerie clad playmates
Hugh Hefner’s earliest years of
adulthood were spent in the service of
Uncle Sam the bunnies felt we should go
this way
smart bunnies Hef armed with a reported
IQ of 152 despite his teachers feeling
that he lacked enthusiasm Hefner
graduated high school in 1944 and
enlisted in the army soon after
officially a clerk and typist have spent
much of the war writing and drawing
cartoons for various military
publications until his discharge in 1946
it was an all pencil-pushing and
daydreams however private Hefner earned
a sharpshooter badge for his prowess
with the m1 rifle and also graduated
from live grenade training otherwise
known as killer college fully intact so
you still have three or four girl four
yes I do
um they keep they keep me young number
nine Lance Corporal Adam driver United
States Marine Corps and you were a
Marine yeah okay following the 9/11
terror attacks the future kylo Ren actor
sought to serve in arguably the toughest
branch of the American military the US
Marine Corps serving in the weapons
company of the 1st battalion 1st Marines
the one one driver was assigned to the
81-millimeter mortar section but saw no
field service after breaking his sternum
in a mountain biking accident the
eventual master
the Knights of Ren was medically
discharged shortly before his unit was
deployed for service in the Iraq war
driver credits his time in the Marine
Corps for giving him the confidence to
do anything including Rhianna shinning
for Juilliard which he did about a year
after his discharge I was a marine I
knew how to survive I would go to New
York and become an actor and if things
didn’t work out I’d live in Central Park
and dumpster dive behind Panera Bread
number eight Captain James Blunt British
Army yeah sponsored through University
by the British Army
James Blunt was required to serve in the
military for a minimum of four years and
did so admirably and I used to be in a
business in the army was dealt with life
and death and those were very real to
suddenly had to try and concentrate on
him unfailing fortune I sometimes
struggle with it trained at the Royal
Military Academy in Sandhurst as well as
the British Army training units afield
in Alberta Canada the singer was
eventually commissioned by the Life
Guards a reconnaissance unit in 1999
blunt volunteered to take part in NATO’s
mission in Kosovo it was there that the
captain may have single-handedly
prevented an escalation in the already
complicated conflict you actually
single-handedly when you were in Kosovo
stopped world war three from happening
I’m glad you brought this up after
leading 30,000 people from the Macedonia
border to an airport almost 10 miles
outside the Kasavin capital blunt and
company found it was held by the
Russians
no bravery
[Music]
better mall when American General Wesley
Clark ordered him to gain control of the
airport by force Blount refused and
eventually the Russians agreed to share
the facility in exchange for food and
water and when the Russians run out of
food and water they came back and asked
us if we could have food and water we
said sure if you share the airport
number seven corporal Mel Brooks United
States Army seventeen years old and
still known as Melvin Kaminsky Brooks
was tested and placed in the elite army
specialized training program at the
Virginia Military Institute in 1944
there he not only had his first
cheeseburger but also gained what he
called a code of honor and behavior
trained in saber wielding and
horsemanship among other skills the
future comedian eventually became a
combat engineer in the eleven hundred
and fourth Engineer combat group in the
78th Infantry Division tasked with
defusing landmines Brooks took part in
the infamous battle of the Bulge but
also engaged in some unsanctioned
ideology battles with the Nazis when the
Germans hit allied troops with
propaganda Brooks allegedly took it upon
himself to assemble a sound system and
hit back by playing music by Jewish
composer Al Jolson and I actually heard
yeah so much Rachel sure they really
liked it you know I think I’d say I
think I could have ended the war right
then and there but General Patton is
somebody kept going number six
sergeant drew Carey United States Marine
Corps Reserve that was the happiest
rings I was getting three meals a day
which I didn’t have before I was on my
own not living on my brother’s couch
it’s hard to picture the bane of Mimi’s
existence ever having a military career
but with his horn rimmed glasses and
crew cut all the signs were right out in
the open as it happens Kerry acquired
both during his time in the 3rd
battalion 25th Marine Regiment where he
served as a field radio operator it was
during this time that Kerry began
dabbling in comedy mostly as a way to
make some extra money Kerry stayed in
the reserves for six years until his
comedy career began to pick up but he
repaid his gratitude to the forces by
partnering up with the USO to entertain
the troops
all right folks enjoy the expo have a
good race and I’ll see you
see you Sunday okay god bless December 5
number 5 private first class Jimi
Hendrix United States Army
[Music]
just like Jerry Garcia of the Grateful
Dead Jimi Hendrix was a great guitar
player but a terrible soldier in lieu of
serving jail time after he was found in
a stolen car for the second time James
Marshall Hendrix enlisted in the Army on
May 31st 1961
this man was in 101st airborne so when
you write your nasty letters in
eventually becoming a paratrooper in the
101st Airborne Division Hendricks didn’t
go for the whole rules thing rarely
turning up for bed checks requiring
constant supervision and often getting
shut-eye while on duty
Jimmy’s military performance only got
worse when he asked his father to send
him his guitar after the instrument
arrived private Hendrix would stay in
his bunk and jam that is unless his
fellow soldiers hid it from him Jimmy’s
commitment to the sixth string
resulted in him being discharged after
only one year of his three-year
enlistment
although he would later claim it was a
broken ankle that did him in
[Music]
you
[Music]
number four specialist for ice-t United
States Army but this face you don’t need
a pride just a temple to keep you hight
tired of selling pot and stealing car
stereos and with a daughter to support
Tracy Mero also known as ice-t joined
the army and found himself in the 25th
Infantry Division tea served in the Army
for four years completed advanced
infantry training and even became squad
leader during his time at the Schofield
Barracks Hawaii his old lifestyle didn’t
completely leave him however and ice-t
was hit with charges for the theft of a
rug and received disciplinary action for
going AWOL around the same time it’s so
easy to make bad decisions your brain
just says so what off-duty Merrill
finally made a good investment when he
bought turntable equipment to explore
his then growing interest in hip hop t
returned to civilian life four months
early in 1983 when he learned that being
a single father entitled him to an early
discharge
[Music]
number three Ruth Westheimer Israel
Defense Forces tire good morning tonight
except that I’m on your shoulder best
known as an adorable accented
sex-obsessed tiny old lady dr. Ruth was
once an adorable accented sex-obsessed
tiny sharpshooter after losing her
parents to the Holocaust Westheimer
found her way to Palestine not long
before Israel declared its independence
when war kicked off
Ruth joined the Hagana a Jewish
paramilitary organization and a
precursor to the Israel Defense Forces
we’re owing to her tiny 4 foot 7 inch
frame she was made a scout and sniper I
can still put five bullets in the red
circle and for hundreds so be very
careful even though she was an excellent
shot dr. Ruth has no recorded kills
although she was nearly killed herself
when a shell exploded near her on her
20th birthday no less leaving her badly
wounded when she recovered
Ruth moved to France to further her
education before immigrating to America
in 1956 now a man is very uncomfortable
physically in a woman’s apartment so a
man will you know maybe I’ll not true a
lady might have an addiction or
something like that is that is what I
was getting to yes number two airman
third class George Carlin United States
Air Force this country has been pushing
up with a world around and exploiting
the people of the world for a long long
time and sometimes you have to pay the
piper if you thought the only time
George Carlin spent in uniform was when
he played mr. conductor you’d be wrong
very wrong yes
Ringo’s shining time station replacement
actually spent three years in the United
States Air Force as a radar technician
after dropping out of high school
Carlin enlisted with the intent of using
his GI Bill to fund his way through
broadcasting school as the man was
famously profane profound and
anti-authoritarian Carlin’s time in the
military went about as well as you’d
expect stationed at Barksdale Air Force
Base in Bossier City Louisiana airman
George was deemed quote unproductive and
court-martialed on three occasions this
might have been due to his tendency to
disc jockey
add a nearby radio station while on
active duty we may never know thanks for
being here with me for a little while
today before we unveil our number one
pick here are some honorable mentions
[Applause]
so I saw it well I’m not gonna be a
waiter or Top Gun and I thought I’d be
top job I work in the public school
system it’s not that different from
number one Master Sergeant Bob Ross
United States Air Force and here and
there there’s little stones under there
that caused it to go it may not be a
tightly held secret that Bob Ross was in
the military but that doesn’t make it
any less surprising and just begin
making all those fluffy little little
things on top of the cloud after
quitting school in grade 9
Ross joined the Air Force and served as
a medical records technician before
eventually working his way up through
the ranks to the position of first
sergeant of Eielson Air Force Base
stationed in Alaska sergeant Ross
learned and started to develop his
signature wet on wet painting style so
he could paint quickly while on break
during this time and it’s fun to prepare
this canvas when nobody’s looking and
when you do this especially if you’re
painting for someone they think it’s
magic holding the rank of Master
Sergeant however he was anything but the
happy little tree we all know and love
instead he was a typical screamin and
authoritative drill sergeant are you
through great thank you sir go get a kid
here you are you third after 20 years of
shouting and making other people clean
toilets
Ross vowed to never scream again and
took up painting full-time think we’re
gonna call that one finished from all of
us here I’d like to wish you happy
painting and God bless my friend do you
agree with our list which celebrities
military record surprised you the most
for more guns a-blazing and totally AWOL
top 10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
and my rifle lesson my god this
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