JARHEAD: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. By Anthony Swofford. Scribner, $24; 260 pp. CHANCES are, Marine Corps recruiters won't be laying this book in the hands of mamas ...

With the start of the first Gulf War looming in August 1990, Marine sniper Anthony Swofford and his platoon wired themselves for battle by watching three straight days of classic Vietnam War films.

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That was the tagline of Anthony Swofford’s best-selling ... Near the end of his book, Swofford writes, “To be a Marine, a true Marine, you must kill.” This confirmation eludes him in his ...

ANTHONY SWOFFORD: As a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, I made less than $800 a month after taxes. My car payment was around $180 a month — I drove a modest Nissan 4×4 pickup. The rest of the ...

Most of the time, Anthony Swofford has no particular identity issues. Though his memoir, "Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles," brings to vivid life an earlier version ...

Anthony’s Swofford’s “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles” is about the process of becoming and the practice of living as a Marine. The cover image of a lone Marine ...

The critically acclaimed biographical film “Jarhead,” based on the best-selling 2003 novel of the same name, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Anthony Swofford — a Marine Scout Sniper — follows ...

Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead" is one of those books ... Swofford was a lance corporal in a United States Marine Corps scout/sniper platoon who saw combat in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during the ...