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Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake
Gyllenhaal) decides to join the Marines, just like his father and his father
before him, and signs on just in time to be sent to Iraq to fight in the Gulf
War in 1991. After experiencing the rigors of boot camp, Swofford and his pal
Troy (Peter Sarsgaard) are trained to be snipers, and under the leadership of
Sgt. Sykes (Jamie Foxx) and Lt. Col. Kazinski (Chris Cooper), the two land in
the middle of a desert where they're up against an enemy they can't always see
under a blazing sun with hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Swofford, Troy, and their fellow soldiers rely on their wits, their sense of
humor, and their friendship of their brothers in arms to deal with a situation
that doesn't much resemble what they saw on television at home.
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