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Title: Rotten to the Corps
Review: According to Bing West, a former Marine combat infantryman and assistant secretary of defense, far from telling the story of The Universal Soldier -- the grunt's unadorned truth, as reviewers have intimated -- "Jarhead" is the over-written memoir of someone who did not experience any serious combat (Swofford experienced no firefights and only two shellings in Desert Storm).During his short stay in the Corps, Swofford, according to his own story, either told tall tales or committed criminal acts under oblivious leaders whom he does not name. Either way, this is not how combat soldiers behave. "Jarhead" is to nonfiction what "Platoon" was to the movies.
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