You've got sharp eyes -- both the 1986 Clint Eastwood drama "Heartbreak Ridge" and the 1964 to 1969 Jim Nabors sitcom "Gomer Pyle: USMC" were filmed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.

The two are, of course, very different, but both treat the Corps with due reverence -- "Gomer Pyle: USMC" didn't take its main character very seriously, but it did treat his vocation with respect. So much so, in fact, that Nabors was made an honorary Marine in 2001.

You could make a whole film festival out of things that have been shot at the sprawling base. Among the other titles filmed at Camp Pendleton are the 1949 John Wayne classic "Sands of Iwo Jima," the 1976 drama "Midway" and the big-budget 2001 film "Pearl Harbor."

The Quonset huts you mention have a fairly proud history themselves, particularly at Camp Pendleton. Though they get their name from a Navy construction facility at Quonset Point in Rhode Island, Pendleton once had the largest number of the iconic corrugated-steel structures.

And they haven't just housed Marines and actors -- in the 1970s, the huts at Pendleton served as a Vietnamese refugee camp, housing as many as 50,000 men, women and children.

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