Since when could they do this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dS7XkRcD-c

^ A trailer for a movie.

"Starring active duty Navy SEALs"

?

There isn't some kind of policy in the military against this? I am not against it myself, as I enjoy military films... But the Navy and Department of Defense are allowing this kind of thing?

Just curious as some of the pages I have seen about who is in it and stuff say "Active duty Navy SEALs, actor, actor, actor, etc"... Not to mention false advertising is kind of illegal here (no idea if this would even fall under that)...

The US military has been acting in films for a long time now. The movie The Hindenburg was filmed at Tustin MCAS(H) and used active duty Marines as extras. Many a movie has had US Navy ships used in them and they are manned by active duty crews. Who do you think flew the F-14s in Top Gun? It wasn't Tom Cruise or Val Kilmer.

The US military has been acting in films for a long time now. The movie The Hindenburg was filmed at Tustin MCAS(H) and used active duty Marines as extras. Many a movie has had US Navy ships used in them and they are manned by active duty crews. Who do you think flew the F-14s in Top Gun? It wasn't Tom Cruise or Val Kilmer.

WhiteKnight77

I did not say actors did all of the "stuff" in military films, such as driving tanks or flying and the likes... But I have always assumed such footage came from the military simply allowing filming during exercises or something of that sort... I didn't know they permitted active duty personel, SEALs for that matter, to simply go be in movies while on duty...

if there is no policy against this, it can be done. although the "active Navy SEALs" probably have 1 or 2 actual ones in the movie.