At its core, Full Metal Jacket is an exploration of the breakdown of the human psyche under the immense pressure of war. Based on Hasford’s 1979 novel The Short-Timers, the film takes audiences ...

He graduated from training at Parris Island in May 1966 and left that Thanksgiving for Vietnam. He was killed during a defensive action in January 1967, at age 19.

Leflar in a formal Marines portrait (left) and his Platoon 2036 in Parris Island, South Carolina, in 1967 (Brian Leflar) Jeffrey Goldberg: Trump: ‘I need the kind of generals that Hitler had’ ...