One thing I realized from watching the Transformers movies: the military probably had a lot of say in the movie, as to how the US military was going to be portrayed. I almost feel like the movie was doing a bit of advertising for the military. The first movie had a lot of US Air Force clips included, and it wasn't just the publicly obvious ones. A lot of behind the scenes action, such as the command centers, and the call-ins for airstrikes was shown. In the sequel, the military clips expanded to the US Army and US Navy. I feel like the military was really trying to show us what their jobs are like, and how cool it was.
-Howitzer