Jarhead

Well have you drop in behind enemy lines and break through using tanks. That night you jump out a plane you pull your chute but when you wake up and it’s morning and you find you ended up on a tree. a woman is throwing stuff at you. “Get up you jarhead Zahltag idiot. You in my tree..” She says. A tank pulls up and duke gets out. She walks over and starts hitting him a lot. “Ow, ow, ow. stop hitting me, I came to cut him down. I see you met Katie she's not a big fan of me!” He yells up to you

inner fiber, one can have victory and prove the world wrong. The leadership shown in this book should be imitated by those who wish to give their all in service to Corps and country. Gunnery Sergeant Mike Popaditch is what one might call a typical Jarhead. Loud, stubborn, and arrogant. He served as a Tank Commander in the Iraq War. His face has been shown in a viral image from 2003, smoking a cigar with a grin on his face from the top of a tank. His career some may call normal, others consider it an

General Marshall’s observations revealed that there are two groups of combat soldiers who don’t perform as expected; one being those who intentionally miss, while the other never even fired their weapon. (Marshal 23) As a disclaimer to explain away some of the second group, during an engagement it might not always be a tactical choice to fire one’s weapon. A soldier might accidentally hit his own units, reveal his position, be unable to make a clear enough shot, or be facing suppressive fire from

Dear Stan, It’s been a rough couple of months so far here in Da Nang. Just an hour ago, the NVA moved up closer to the airfield and shot down a loaded C-130 transport plane. The wreckage was spread out all over the runway, killing around twentie two guys. At first, I didn’t even know the NVA had RPG-7’s. The Soviets must have supplied them well, I wasn’t surprised that they would support any country against us. Anyway, I’ve been unlucky in the recent months like I said before. It was August 2nd,

Imagine returning home unscathed from battle to your physical body. Staff Sargent shakes your hand will depart the ship and the reality of being a citizen never truly becomes a real reality. Losing fellow friends, seeing heinous and often gruesome separation of body and limps and doctors check off as “A ok”. The true effects of PTSD are not limited to soldiers and the effects of PTSD are so vast that medical professionals often have troubles diagnosing all cases. Not to mention many victims of PTSD

Rai was woken up by the sound of dripping. It was incredibly loud despite his fuzzyheadedness, and he struggled to echo-locate its source. Wherever he was smelled of recirculated air, and he could taste the hint of something metallic in the air that reminded him of being on a float when he was in the Corps. Six months on a ship from Okinawa, Japan to South Korea and back makes one familiar with the individual rust marks on the bulkhead above your rack. And you rack made you infinitely familiar with

The stone streets were a veil at this time of night, with who knows how many menacing horrors hiding behind the curtain. The lingering gas hovering over the ground was timid, dispersing at the sight of anyone who strayed near. The moon tried to pry into the city’s shadows, but it was too thick to cut. The buildings were nothing but faded memories: gray, eroded structures that once boasted splendor and beauty. Street rats, both rodent and human, scuttled about in the alleyways, knocking assortments

Mary Ann can be seen transforming in the chapter “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”. The transformations in the chapter take place at different times as the story progresses. The Mary Ann that is presented at the beginning of the chapter is a great contrast to the Mary Ann that we end the chapter with. The different transformations of Mary Ann that take place are physical, behavioral, and psychological. These different types of transformations can symbolize many different things, some of which will

Kicking Ass And Taking Names: The Women Of James Cameron's Filmography He might have unruly views, but there is no denying that James Cameron knows how to make a film. From his breakout short film Xenogenesis to Titanic, Cameron is one of the best. However, while all the big awards are nice, it is the female characters that take centre stage. The Alien Princess - Neytiri Jake Sully: “Yeah, why save me?” Neytiri: “You have a strong heart, no fear. But stupid, ignorant like a child.” I may be

The downside to this erratic type of editing is that it leaves little room for a concrete narrative to be pulled; then leaving audience interpretation to be the driving force of the film’s critical analyses. Walter Murch, the editor of Sam Mendes’ Jarhead, once told Lawrence Weschler in his essay “Valkyries over Iraq” that he believes the largest problem with film as a narrative medium is that "it 's literal, in that what you see is what was literally there, and yet we as filmmakers in processing the