August 22, 1997 | R | 2h 5min “Navy SEALS” (starring Charlie Sheen) came out in 1990 and kicked off America’s current SEAL infatuation. Active-duty SEALS apparently enjoy quoting “Navy SEALS” dialogue while on operations. When rescued local non-combatants (in, say, Afghanistan) thank them, SEALS like to say, “There’s no reason to thank us because we don’t exist. You never saw us. This never happened.” When “G.I. Jane,” starring Demi Moore came out in 1997, none of the scads of literature about SEALS and SEAL training was out there yet. SEAL warriors like Chris Kyle, Jocko Willink, and David Goggins weren’t yet household names, and so I thought “G.I. Jane” was big fun. There was cool stuff happening, even though everybody at the time was pretty sure no woman could ever pass SEAL bootcamp (BUD/S; Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALS), notoriously the most brutal military training in the world. Now, after having read …