Wayne played Sergeant Stryker in "Sands of" this island that was later featured in a pair of 2006 films
... Later re-edited into a 1946 feature entitled Desert Command 96 minutes
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12.10 EDT ... his military career - which lasted from the late 1950s until the mid-
1980s ... movies at least since John Wayne played Sergeant Stryker in Sands ... 
sent off to Vietnam with Sands Of Iwo Jima ringing in their heads.