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"When the marines - or "jarheads," as they call themselves - were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands. It was one misery upon another. He lived in sand for six months, his girlfriend back home betrayed him for a scrawny hotel clerk, he was punished by boredom and fear, he considered suicide, he pulled a gun on one of his fellow marines, and he was shot at by both Iraqis and Americans.
At the end of the war, Swofford hiked for miles through a landscape of incinerated Iraqi soldiers and later was nearly killed in a booby-trapped Iraqi bunker.".
"Swofford weaves this experience of war with vivid accounts of boot camp (which included physical abuse by his drill instructor), reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family. As engagement with the Iraqis draws closer, he is forced to consider what it is to be an American, a soldier, a son of a soldier, and a man.".
"Unlike the real-time print and television coverage of the Gulf War, which was highly scripted by the Pentagon, Swofford's account subverts the conventional wisdom that U.S. military interventions are now merely surgical insertions of superior forces that result in few American casualties.
Jarhead insists we remember the Americans who are in fact wounded or killed, the fields of smoking enemy corpses left behind, and the continuing difficulty that American soldiers have reentering civilian life."--BOOK JACKET.
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
September 27, 2005, Pocket
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
October 18, 2005, Scribner
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Jarhead: a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles
2004, Scribner
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Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
March 4, 2003, Scribner
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
May 1, 2003, Simon & Schuster Audio
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0743535391 9780743535397
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
December 9, 2003, Scribner
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
January 2003, Recorded Books
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Jarhead: a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles
2003, RB Large Print
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140255835X 9781402558351
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
May 1, 2003, Simon & Schuster Audio
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Swofford weaves his experience of the Gulf War in the early 1990s with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family.
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