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OK. It's interesting that he was a nudist.
I've never read the book but the movie fashions the infantry guys after U.S. Marines with many of their sayings. Also, the Blizzard game Starcraft lifts ideas from his book with the Terrans and the Zerg. I wasn't aware it was required reading at the academies.
One other factoid is that the lead character Johnny Rico's native language is Tagalog. I think it's the world language in Heinlein's future.
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