Jarhead

I watched the DVD "Jarhead."

Synopsis

Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's 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 don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom. Sergeant Sykes (Jamie Foxx) a lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy (Peter Sarsgaard), a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.