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Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, its over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go?
Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff," a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a snipers rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they dont understand against an enemy they cant see for a cause they dont fully fathom... Sergeant Sykes is a Marine lifer who heads up Swoffords scout/sniper platoon, while Troy is Swoffs friend and mentor, a die-hard member of STA - their elite Marine Unit.
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Anthony Swofford
Jamie Foxx
Staff Sgt. Sykes
Lucas Black
Chris Kruger
Scott MacDonald
D.I. Fitch
Peter Sarsgaard
Alan Troy
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Bored Gunny
Kevin Foster
Branded Marine
Brian Geraghty
Fergus O'Donnell
Damion Poitier
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Riad Galayini
Nurse
Craig Coyne
Young Mr. Swofford
Katherine Randolph
Young Mrs. Swofford
Rini Bell
Swoff's Sister
Dendrie Taylor
Mrs. Swofford
James Morrison
Mr. Swofford
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Young Anthony Swofford
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Swoff's Girlfriend Kristina
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