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- Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) uses two Remington M40A1 sniper rifles in the film, first using one with a camo finish stock to train to be a Scout Sniper in Basic Training, the second a desert camo painted model with a foam rubber sniper cheek pad.
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Rifles. Remington M40A1. Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) uses two Remington M40A1 sniper rifles in the film, first using one with a camo finish stock to train to be a Scout Sniper in Basic Training, the second a desert camo painted model with a foam rubber sniper cheek pad.
Jarhead is a 2005 American biographical war drama film based on the 2003 memoir of the same name by Anthony Swofford, chronicling his military service in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Persian Gulf War.
Hello all, in the movie Jarhead there is a scene where a sniper and a spotter have an order to kill a high value target. The order was given by a Colonel but then a Major busts in and gives the order to stand down while he calls in an air strike.
I haven't seen Jarhead but yes they do. You have to crawl through a course where there are simulated artillery rounds going off in craters and someone is shooting an automatic weapon over your head. No I don't remember what the weapon was but it was belt fed, probably a 240B or M249.
May 2, 2020 · Jarhead, based on the book Jarhead by Anthony Swofford, is considered one of the most accurate war movies to date. Swofford was a member of the Surveillance and Target Acquisition (STA) Platoon in the Gulf War, a platoon largely made up of snipers that generally contained some of the better Marines in the battalion.
In Jarhead, a marine trainee in the scout sniper program stands up during a crawling exercise and gets shot. How common were such training exercise deaths from live ammunition at the time?
Several of the rifles in the film that resemble the M4A1 and M16 appear to be hybrid firearms built in part from the "Gilboa" series of rifles manufactured by Silver Shadow, an authorized Israeli weapon manufacturer. The weapons are fitted with Israeli Meprolight MOR sights.
