The film begins with voice-over narration on a black screen, as Anthony Swofford waxes philosophic about a Marine whose hands forever remember the grip of a rifle, whatever else they do in life. Swofford is then shown in a U.S. Marine Corps boot camp, being taught by D.I. Fitch . After finishing boot camp, “Swoff” is dispatched to Camp Pendleton in 1989
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Major Bennett “Ben” Marco is a war veteran who begins to doubt what is commonly known about his famous Army unit. During Operation Desert Storm, Sergeant First Class Raymond Shaw supposedly rescued all but two members in his unit, of which Marco was the commanding officer.
The film begins in the summer of 1876, introducing Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a disenchanted ex-United States Army captain and an alcoholic, who is traumatized by his experience fighting in the Civil War and the Indian Wars.
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On the afternoon of October 3rd 1993, a military raid took place. It was made up of Delta Force Soldiers, Army Rangers and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. This was an attempt to capture two of Warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid’s senior subordinates in the Bakara Market Mogadishu, Somalia.
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