Stripes (1981)

Bill Murray and Harold Ramis play best friends who decide to leave their mundane lives and join the army. 

Murray and Ramis are at their comedic best, as they go through basic training and butt heads with Sergeant Hulka (Warren Oates).

The film eventually takes our anti-heroes to Italy, West Germany and communist Czechoslovakia, where a mistaken alarm almost starts World War III.

John Candy features prominently as a fat guy who joins the army to lose weight, with a supporting cast including Judge Reinhold, John Larroquette, P.J. Soles and Sean Young.

Think Police Academy . . . only funny!