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...Tale of a Traitor The excerpt from the autobiography of Charles Robert Jenkins, the U.S. Army sergeant who left his post in South Korea and fled to the communist North in 1965 [Oct. 24], will generate a lot of sympathy for him. We shouldn't forget, however, that he deserted because he was scared of going to Vietnam. Legally, Jenkins is a free man now, having been discharged from the U.S. military. But knowing about those who served honorably in Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq, I have difficulty feeling any sympathy for that coward. Kazuho Baba...
...await the Marines. While talking with a family in a nearby house, members of Fox Company's 3rd Platoon came under heavy fire from the militants. At his lookout post on the roof, Lance Corp. Manuel Beccerarodriguez ducked as 7.62mm rounds snarled past his head. Staff Sergeant Michael Ventrone ordered his Marines to get on the roof and fight their way out of the ambush...
...SERGEANT ROBERT E. WILLIAMSON JR. U.S. ARMY RESERVE Hobart...
...loved the film” and that “it’s a really smart and artful adaptation of [his] work and also [his] life.” A “reluctant memoirist,” he laughed about the first screening, when hearing a drill sergeant scream his name brought back uneasy memories. He also took questions about the project of writing an autobiography and how his book has been translated into film. The Harvard Crimson: Could you describe the writing process for the book? Did you keep notes or a journal while serving? Anthony Swofford...
...Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), the everyman U.S. Marine, or “jarhead,” whose war autobiography this movie adapts. While training, Swofford is selected to join an elite scout unit, and he trades in his girlfriend for a sniper rifle and Peter Sarsgaard, his increasingly unstable spotter. Sergeant Siek (Jamie Foxx) leads Swofford’s unit, and it’s not that he’s a bad guy—he just enjoys torturing his trainees. Siek’s tough love continues when the marines ship out to fight Saddam. The desert...