In the late 1980s, Anthony Swofford enlists as a Marine, training in boot camp and eventually deploying to Iraq during the Gulf War. 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 grasp.
In the late 1980s, Anthony Swofford enlists as a Marine, training in boot camp and eventually deploying to Iraq during the Gulf War. 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 grasp.
