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Title: What a waste of time. Should be called Blowhard instead of Jarhead.
Review: Of all of the self-indulgent drivel I have ever read, and there is much to choose from in the warrior memoir genre, this book has all of the excitement of picking lint out of your own belly button. Anyone who has ever raised his/her right hand and sworn "to support and defend the constitution etc." knows full well that becoming a warrior is a license to be killed, not a license to kill. When Uncle Sam owns you, he will do with you what he will. It's not a secret, and millions of sailors, soldiers, airmen and marines will gladly tell you the same; all for a lot less than the purchase price and the time this book will cost you.Most of this is typical marine mythology, of hard drink and prostitutes, of the depravity of the PI, of hardd*** Marines. Mr. Swofford, get over yourself.
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