The core of the film is the "hurry-up-and-wait" reality of war. Swofford and his fellow Marines, including his spotter Troy () and Staff Sergeant Sykes ( Jamie Foxx ), spend 175 days in the desert heat, dealing with:
At first glance, a war about American oil interests in Iraq might seem distant to Georgians. But look closer. Georgia has fought its own modern wars—in Abkhazia (1992-93), South Ossetia (2008), and through deployments in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. jarhead qartulad