Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

As one who spent 23 years in the army and three of those years as a drill sergeant, I found this movie very funny. While women have been in the military for years, none quite like this mother.

A great movie starring Barbara Eden and her real life son , Matthew Ansara. Barbara as Brenda Anderson, the overprotective mom tries to keep her son out of the airforce and wants him to go to college. But in the process everything goes astray and instead Brenda (Barbara Eden) winds up in the airforce. Things get very funny as she alienates everyone in sight by getting them on KP for her screwups. In one hilarious scene she appears on the battleground wearing short shorts because she misunderstood the term BDU (battle dress uniform) to mean BVD's ,which of course, she told her sergeant, she was no way going to wear. In the end she is forced to do a jump from the plane to set an example for her son and winds up encouraging him to stay in. I strongly suspect, from the reality of the scenes that they were done with the cooperation of the airforce. Barbara as usual makes everything hilarious with her antics. A great fun movie.

Someone probably thought using the cute skits from jeanie would work here ... they didn't ... barbara eden made a complete sham of this film about like everything else she does ... she is no comedian but rather a pimple on the arse of funny ... she would do well to check joan o'brien's performance in operation petticoat to learn real comedy

A mother and son story! Mom (Barbara Eden) enlists in the Army to be near her son and to make sure the Army treats him right. A funny story about mom having to make an adjustment living without her son.

While I was in the Army, I received a call from Anson Williams. He wanted to make a movie, about my step-son and I. I about had a heart attack when I watched it. I was serving before he enlisted. So the movie, is total fiction!