jarhead (2005)

in the summer of 1990, twenty-year-old anthony swofford was sent to the saudi arabian desert to fight the first gulf war. the young man passes from the boredom of training to the operation of the storm operation to discover with a sniper rifle and a 45-kilo backpack on his shoulder that the enemy does not have a face. between burning deserts and burning oil wells, anthony and the other soldiers, quarrelsome, dusty and excited at the idea of ??killing someone, develop bonds of friendship and courageous loyalty. but their rifle will never fire.