Is this how the United States Marines act?

Rating: 1/10 (16 May 2006)

Whatever the author/writer of this film was trying to invoke was clearly not intended to be see as a positive message about American military. Is this really the way soldiers, and particularly Marines act when they serve their country in deployments? This movie portrays United States Marines as low-life, lackluster degenerates. It clearly has an anti-military theme. What kind of a message is this Swofford guy trying to cast of Marines? He obviously was not very fond of his time spent in the Corps. I can see why if it was anything like this movie, what kind of a Marine stands around like an untrained idiot when mortars are coming in only to wet himself. If I were a Marine I would not be very happy about this kind of notoriety