I'm not old enough to have seen COMBAT when it was originally on, but 5 or 6 years ago, the Encore Action channel was showing it weekends, unedited and commercial free. I was shocked at how good it was. I was expecting something less complex and one-dimensional.

Mitchum is probably the all-time best choice for Rock. My other choice would be John Wayne, circa the 1940's.

The more I think about what was said in that press release, the more I think that the ONLY thing the movie producers are interested in is the cool sounding name of "SGT. ROCK". They likely care nothing about anything else involved, not the setting and not the character itself.