Not counting when he guards the galaxy.
When he’s not playing the lead singer of Mouse Rat in Pawnee, Indiana or a or a swaggering space pirate-turned-superhero, Chris Pratt has carved out a good amount of big-screen roles as either an active-duty service member or a military veteran — and a highly trained one at that. This might seem a bit odd since Pratt has developed a reputation as a comedic actor from his easygoing manchild turns in Parks & Rec and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, but go through the list. He was part of SEAL Team 6 as the comedic relief and operator Justin Lenihan (possibly based on real-life SEAL and bad beer spokesman Rob O’Neill) in Zero Dark Thirty; a Navy veteran-turned-raptor handler Owen Grady in Jurassic World (a seemingly logical career progression in that universe) and Green Beret veteran Dan Forester in The Tomorrow War. In his latest role in the upcoming Amazon Prime TV show The Terminal List, Pratt portrays a SEAL once more as James Reece in the adaptation of the Jack Carr novel, a role he appears to adopt seamlessly in the recent trailer for the series. So for a guy who frequently plays members of the U.S. military, what would it actually cost the Pentagon to train each of his characters for their specific tours of duty? Let’s investigate the last decade years of Pratt’s military roles. First, the latest evidence. Pratt’s back in the military action world with The Terminal List. His character, Lt. Cdr. James Reece (because so many military heroes need names that start with J, from Jack Reacher to John Clark), is fresh off his last tour, a disastrous operation that saw the rest of his squad of SEALs killed in action.
