Music:
Greenday, Social Distortion, Type O Negative, Mazzy Star, Concrete Blonde, NIN, TOOL, A Perfect Circle, Depeche Mode, Motley Crue, SEAL, Kansas, Lynard Skynard, Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Aerosmith, OLD Metallica, Static-X, Mudvayne, the Killers, Queen, RUSH, KISS, Tori Amos. Classical. Even some country, but NOT western. Most types, NOT Rap/Hip Hop.
Movies:
The Princess Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Labyrinth, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars (the first 3), Shrek(1), A Knight's Tale, The 13th Warrior, Monty Python's (Anything), Young Frankenstein, Aliens(1-3), Apocolypse Now, The Crow, Pulp Fiction, El Mariachi, Reservoir Dogs, Gladiator, And pretty much any war film ever made.
Television:
Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Enterprise (Reruns Now), Farscape (also Reruns), Over There, Lost, ER, The Apprentice (Trump), Joey, BritComs, Monty Python (Reruns), MASH (Reruns), Saprano's, The Wire.
Books:
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Armor, The Barbed Coil, Eragon, Eldest, Gaunt's Ghost, The Sword Of Shynarra Trilogy, Sandman, Team Yankee, The Rune Lords (all 4), The Alchemist, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Martin Chronicles, anything by (Poe, or Shakespeare, or Hemingway), Beowulf, Arthurian Legend, Most stuff found in your high school english books. And probably most books on warfare or weapons.
Heroes:
John Wayne (still), Patton, Maynard, Johnny Depp, the people with whom I've served.