Jarhead movie

Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows Swoff (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a snipers rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they dont understand against an enemy they cant see for a cause they dont fully fathom... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swoffords scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoffs friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.