Dale Adam Dye is an American actor, presenter, businessman, and retired U.S. Marine captain who served in combat during the Vietnam War. Dye is what is known in military parlance as a "mustang", i.e., someone who began as an enlisted service member and earned their commission after enlistment, in Dye's case rising all the way from Private to Captain. Dye was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the son of Della Grace and Dale Adam Dye. Fellow Marine correspondent Gustav Hasford dubbed him "Daddy D.A" and included him as a character in his first semi-autobiographical Vietnam novel, The... Short-Timers, and more extensively in his second, The Phantom Blooper. The movie based on Hasford's first novel, Full Metal Jacket, included the "Daddy D.A" character , though neither the character nor Dye's name is explicitly mentioned in the dialogue.
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