Philip M. Strub

Philip Meredith Strub was born in 1947, ironically the same year the United States Department of Defense (formerly known as War) was set up, as the country moved deeper into tensions with Soviet Russia. Strub would become the main point man or liaison between Hollywood production companies and the Pentagon during two decades between 1989 and 2018. scripts were often submitted to him to make sure they portrayed the military in a way that the department would be willing to support with technical assistance, equipment, and actual enlisted men and women in lieu of Screen Actors Guild rate extras.such military cooperation helped the studios save huge amounts of money.In the late 1990s, Strub created a useful database of all film and TV productions that had come to the department for help, going back to the Silent era, Dara which is accessible through the Freedom of Information Act. Strub studied at American College in Paris, France; received a BA in political science from St Louis University in Missouri in 1968; was commissioned as a US Navy officer ; and received a master's in cinema Production in 1974 from the University of Southern California.