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The Marine Corps has issued thousands of new body armor vests that are lighter, more comfortable and allow more freedom of movement than the current vest, but offer less ballistic protection than the Corps' standard-​​issued armor.

The so-​​called 'scalable plate carrier' uses the same enhanced small arms protective plates and Kevlar ballistic inserts as the Corps' Interceptor body armor and modular tactical vest, but in a more streamlined, less bulky package than vests issued to most Marines.

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So far the Corps has fielded about 5,500 of the plate carriers, made by Eagle Industries of Fenton, Mo., throughout the three Marine Expeditionary Forces, but the vest is primarily intended for Leathernecks deployed to the western Pacific region and parts of Afghanistan, officials with Marine Corps Systems Command said.

In February, Marine Commandant Gen. James Conway fired a shot across SysCom's bow in an interview with Fox News during his trip to Iraq and other Middle East war zones. Then, he wondered why the office responsible for equipping Marines chose the current MTV — which Leathernecks have nicknamed the 'Hesco' after the sand-​​filled wire-​​and-​​burlap barriers that protect remote bases from enemy fire.

He then ordered SysCom to come up with a new design, even though the Corps had already shipped 84,000 MTVs to the war zone.

'We put the last 25,000 [MTVs] on hold, and I asked, ‘How is it that we got to this point? What was our pre-​​selection survey like and wear test like to the extent that we've got this thing now in large volume,' ' Conway said during an Aug. 18 interview. 'Frankly, we're hard pressed to understand.'

Despite the plate carrier order, nearly six months after the commandant's request SysCom still hasn't followed through with a replacement for the MTV.

'We are currently gathering data and information from Marines returning from OIF and OEF,' said SysCom spokeswoman, Capt. Geraldine Carey, in an Aug. 7 email statement to Military​.com. 'Once all the data is collected and analyzed, we will approach industry for possible new designs and or changes to the current body armor.'

The new plate carriers are essentially a slimmed-​​down version of the MTV, with larger arm holes, thinner shoulder straps and a shorter chest profile. The reduction in weight and lower silhouette of the plate carriers 'would allow greater mobility with reduced thermal stress in high elevations, thick vegetation and tropical environments,' SysCom said.

In 2004, the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit purchased plate carriers for its Marines during a deployment to the scorching deserts of southern Afghanistan. Since then, many troops have favored the uncomplicated plate carriers over their more weighty counterparts, which incorporate ballistic yokes, chin guards, groin protectors and various ballistic add-​​ons, depending on the mission.

'Now the Marines who are wearing [the MTV] repetitively don't like it so much,' Conway explained. 'It is heavier. It gives a little more protection — that is one of the net positives with it. We still need a lighter vest that gives us the same amount of protection.'

In March 2007, the Corps received an 'urgent needs statement' from field commanders requesting the plate carriers for forces in Afghanistan and units deployed to Asia — where hot, jungle environments make wearing the 30-​​pound MTV impractical. Since then, the Corps made plans to buy nearly 10,000 plate carriers and has made them available to vehicle crewmen as well.

'For the most part, we think the vest has particular application in Afghanistan because, once again, if you're climbing up and down mountains you want to be protected, but you don't want to be weighed down so much that you're just going to be sapped,' Conway said of the SPC vest. Space rex mac os.

The issue of body armor and the balance between ballistic protection and mobility has been a controversial one, particularly since casualties mounted in Iraq from powerful roadside bombs and armor-​​piercing sniper rounds. As the blast injuries increased, the services added on new ballistic protection to their vests.

But the boost in protection came at the cost of comfort and weight; some vests topped 35 pounds with various accessories and stronger plates. That prompted some commanders to ask for leeway in how they outfit their troops, given the security environment and the type of terrain units operated in.

'I like the idea of modularization as long as you had some pieces that you could add or subtract' from the carrier, said David Woroner, a body armor expert and president of Survival Consultants International. 'Personal protection should be just that, it's a personal choice at some point.'

In January, the deputy commander for Marines in Iraq, Maj. Gen. John Allen, told Military​.com he was on the verge of allowing his troops in Anbar province — which had seen a steep reduction in violence and roadside bomb casualties — to strip down their armor, leaving their chin guards, groin protectors and side plates at the base while on patrol.

That prompted a sharp rebuke from superiors in Baghdad who still believed the risk from IEDs was enough to keep Marines buttoned up behind the MTV's full ensemble.

But now it seems the restrictions have softened.

'A lot has to be left to the commander. Threats will vary in different locations,' explained Conway, who wore the SPC during a recent trip to the Middle East. 'You may have a sniper threat in one place and a shrapnel threat in another. You may have a commander whose force mainly rides to the fight and another one that has to climb up the side of mountains.'

'That we've got these various [types of armor vest] is marvelous,' Conway said.

– Christian (with help from contributor Kimberly Johnson)

Jarhead is a 2005 American biographical wardrama film based on U.S. MarineAnthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name. The film was directed by Sam Mendes, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Swofford with Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, and Chris Cooper. Jarhead chronicles Swofford's life story and his military service in the Gulf War.

The film was released on November 4, 2005, by Universal Pictures. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews and was a box office disappointment, grossing $97 million against a budget of $72 million. Despite the film's mixed response, it spawned a film series of four films.

'Jarhead' is a slang term used to refer to U.S. Marines.

Plot[edit]

In 1989, Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford, whose father served in the earlier Vietnam War (1961-1975), attends United States Marine Corps recruit training before being stationed at Camp Pendleton, California. Claiming that he joined the military because he 'got lost on the way to college', Swofford finds his time at Camp Pendleton difficult, and struggles to make friends. While Swofford feigns illness to avoid his responsibilities, a 'lifer', Staff Sergeant Sykes, takes note of his potential and orders Swofford to attend his Scout Sniper course.

After gruelling training, the Scout Sniper course is left with eight candidates, among them Swofford, now a sniper, and Swofford's roommate Corporal Alan Troy who becomes his spotter. When Kuwait is invaded by Iraq, Swofford's unit is deployed to the Arabian Peninsula as a part of 'Operation Desert Shield' in the Gulf War (1990–1991). Eager for combat, the Marines find themselves bored with remedial training, constant drills, and a routine monotony that feeds their boredom, and prompts them to talk about the unfaithful girlfriends and wives waiting for them at home. They even erect a bulletin board featuring photographs and brief notes telling what perfidies the women had committed (known in military slang as a 'Jodie Wall').

Swofford obtains unauthorized alcohol and organizes an impromptu Christmas party, arranging for Fergus to cover his watch so he can celebrate. Fergus accidentally sets fire to a tent while cooking some sausages and ignites a crate of flares, waking the whole camp and enraging Staff Sergeant Sykes, who demotes Swofford from lance corporal to private and puts him on 'shit-burning' detail. The punishments, combined with the heat, the boredom, and Swofford's suspicions of his girlfriend's infidelity, give Swofford a mental breakdown, to the point where he threatens Fergus with a rifle, then orders Fergus to shoot him instead.

Later, Operation Desert Storm begins and the Marines are sent to the Saudi Arabian-Kuwait border. Swofford learns from Sykes that Troy concealed his criminal record when enlisting and will be discharged when the unit returns home. Troy becomes distant from his friends. Knowing that Troy will not be allowed to reenlist, the Marines attack him with a red-hot USMC branding iron, marking him as one of their own. Following an accidental air attack from friendly forces, the Marines advance through the desert, facing no enemies on the ground. The Marines march through the infamous 'Highway of Death' (on the northbound road leading back to Iraq from capital Kuwait City), strewn with the burnt vehicles and charred bodies of retreating Iraqi soldiers, the aftermath of a bombing campaign. The Marines later catch sight of distant burning Kuwaiti oil wells, ignited only moments before by retreating Iraqis, and they attempt to dig sleeping holes as a rain of crude oil falls from the sky. Before they can finish, Sykes orders the squad to move upwind.

Near the end of the war, Swofford and Troy are finally given a sniping mission. Lieutenant Colonel Kazinski, their battalion commander, orders them to kill at least one of two high-ranking Iraqi Republican Guard officers at a nearby airfield. At the last second before Swofford takes the shot, Major Lincoln interrupts them to call in an air strike. Troy desperately pleas to make a kill, but was denied and overruled as the airplanes destroy the Iraqi airfield, much to his and Swofford's disappointment. The war ends without Swofford ever firing his rifle. During a monologue, Swofford realizes that all of his training and effort to achieve the elite status as a marine sniper is meaningless in modern warfare.

After returning home the Marines parade through a town in a jovial celebration of victory. Swofford returns home to his family and girlfriend but discovers she has a new boyfriend. He is promoted to Corporal. Fowler is seen with a prostitute in a bar, now as a Lance Corporal, Kruger in a corporate boardroom, Escobar as a supermarket employee, Cortez as a father of three children, and Sykes continuing his service as a first sergeant in the Iraq War. Later, Swofford learns of Troy's death from a car accident during a surprise visit from Fergus. He attends his funeral, reunites with some of his old friends and afterwards reminisces about the effects of the war.

Cast[edit]

• Jake Gyllenhaal as Anthony Swofford
• Scott MacDonald as D.I. Fitch
• Peter Sarsgaard as Alan Troy
• Jamie Foxx as Staff Sgt. Sykes
• Lucas Black as Chris Kruger
• Brian Geraghty as Fergus O'Donnell
• Jacob Vargas as Juan Cortez
• Laz Alonso as Ramon Escobar
• Evan Jones as PFC Dave Fowler
• Chris Cooper as Lt. Col. Kazinski
• Dennis Haysbert as Major Lincoln
• John Krasinski as Corporal Harrigan

Critical response[edit]

The film received mixed reviews; from 200 critics, it registered a 61% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's consensus states: 'This first person account of the first Gulf War scores with its performances and cinematography but lacks an emotional thrust.'^[2]Roger Ebert gave the movie three-and-a-half out of four stars, crediting it for its unique portrayal of Gulf War Marines who battled boredom and a sense of isolation rather than enemy combatants.^[3]Entertainment Weekly magazine gave the film a 'B+' rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote:

Jarhead isn't overtly political, yet by evoking the almost surreal futility of men whose lust for victory through action is dashed, at every turn, by the tactics, terrain, and morality of the war they're in, it sets up a powerfully resonant echo of the one we're in today.^[4]

In his review for the Washington Post, Stephen Hunter praised Jake Gyllenhaal's performance: 'What's so good about the movie is Gyllenhaal's refusal to show off; he doesn't seem jealous of the camera's attention when it goes to others and is content, for long stretches, to serve simply as a prism through which other young men can be observed'.^[5]Sight and Sound magazine's Leslie Felperin wrote, 'If nothing else, Jarhead provides some kind of reportage of a war whose consequences we haven't yet begun to understand, a war now elbowed into history by its still-raging sequel'.^[6]USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, 'What we're left with is solid if not exceptional, though it's good to see Mendes expanding as a filmmaker'.^[7]TIME magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, 'But the best war movies—and this one, despite its being overlong and repetitive, is among them—hold that men fight (or in this case, are ready to fight) not for causes, but to survive and to help their comrades do the same'.^[8]

However, in his review for The New York Times, A. O. Scott felt that the film was 'full of intensity with almost no real visceral impact', and called it 'a minor movie about a minor war, and a film that feels, at the moment, remarkably irrelevant'.^[9]Kenneth Turan in his review for the Los Angeles Times wrote:

Its polished surfaces and professional style can't compete with the gritty reality conveyed by documentaries like Gunner Palace and Occupation: Dreamland — or, for that matter, by the surreal black comedy of David O. Russell's Three Kings — that show in no uncertain terms what it's like to be a soldier in Iraq.^[10]

In his review for the Village Voice, J. Hoberman wrote, 'A master of the monotone, Mendes prompts his performers to hit a note and sustain it. Although Jarhead is more visually accomplished and less empty than American Beauty or Road to Perdition, it still feels oppressively hermetic'.^[11]

Nathaniel Fick, another author who is a Marine, gave the film a mixed review (and panned the book on which it is based) in Slate. He wrote, 'Jarhead also presents wild scenes that probably could happen in combat units, but strips them of the context that might explain how they're more than sheer lunacy'.^[12] James Meek, who reported from the battlefields of Iraq, wrote in The Guardian: 'The key to a film about war is how it ends, and if the young man at the film's centre is lifted out of the battlefield uninjured and sane, if his family and home life before and after aren't prominent in the picture, the movie is diminished as a film which says something about war and becomes a simpler story of growing up, of jeopardy overcome'.^[13]

Controversy[edit]

In a November 2005 New York Times article, David Carr noted that war veteran and writer Joel Turnipseed felt that parts of the film's plot had been taken from his 2002 book Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir without his consent. Jarheadscreenwriter William Broyles, Jr. claimed that many similarities arise from the retelling of common Marine experiences.^[14]

Accolades[edit]

Sequels[edit]

The film was followed by three direct-to-video sequels – Jarhead 2: Field of Fire (2014), Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016) and Jarhead: Law of Return (2019).^[15]

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References[edit]

1. ^'Jarhead (2005)'. Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
2. ^'Jarhead'. Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
3. ^Ebert, Roger (2005-11-04). 'Jarhead :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews'. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
4. ^Gleiberman, Owen (2005-11-02). ''Jarhead' Review'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
5. ^Hunter, Stephen (2005-11-04). ''Jarhead': A Platoon Full of Sand And Grit'. Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
6. ^Felperin, Leslie (January 2006). 'The Longest Days'. Sight and Sound. Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
7. ^Clark, Mike (2005-11-04). 'A few good men give 'Jarhead' a solid feel'. USA Today. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
8. ^Schickel, Richard (2005-11-02). 'In the Eye of Desert Storm'. Time. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
9. ^Scott, A.O. (2005-11-04). 'Soldiers in the Desert, Antsy and Apolitical'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
10. ^Turan, Kenneth (2005-11-04). 'Jarhead'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-05-29.^{[dead link]}
11. ^Hoberman, J (2005-10-25). 'Weathering the Storm'. Village Voice. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
12. ^Fick, Nathaniel (2005-11-09). 'How Accurate Is Jarhead?'. Slate. Retrieved 2012-10-28.
13. ^Meek, James (2005-12-16). 'Visions of hell'. The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
14. ^Carr, David (2005-11-09). 'Jarhead: Whose Stories Are They?'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
15. ^'A Look at the Jarhead Series (2005-2019)'. The Action Elite. Retrieved 29 September 2020.

External links[edit]

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• Jarhead at IMDb
• Jarhead at AllMovie