Slackers Bones Conway and Jack Kaufman work at "Crazy Boys" discount electronics store in Glendale, California.

Looking to score some quick start-up money for their store and believing that the commitment will be minimal (they are easily lured by the recruiting slogan "One weekend a month, two weeks a year"), the two join the United States Army Reserves.

He briefs them on his failed mission to rendezvous with two HALOed Fast Attack vehicles and destroy mobile Scud launchers carrying missiles armed with chemical warheads aimed at American bases in the region.

In the Army Now was the last film that Pauly Shore did as part of a three-film contract with Disney, the previous two being Encino Man and Son in Law.

The consensus states "This 1994 Pauly Shore vehicle stretches its star's thin shtick to the breaking point with a laugh-deficient screenplay that borrows shamelessly from Bill Murray's far superior Stripes".