The American service man, whose military radio antics inspired Robin Williams in the 1987 film “Good Morning Vietnam” has died.

Adrian Cronauer passed way Wednesday at a nursing home in Virginia .

During his service in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966, Sgt. Adrian Cronauer opened his radio show with the phrase that Williams made famous in movie and says he loved much of the film even much of it was Hollywood make-believe.

Adrian Cronauer was 79.