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jarhead
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jar·head  (järhd)
n. Slang
A U.S. Marine.

[Perhaps from the shape of the hat the Marines once wore.]


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Jarheads scream in anticipation of the helicopters' strafing of the seaside village: "Shoot the motherfuckers," yells Gyllenhaal's Swofford.
To give some inkling of how theoretically bloodthirsty those all-volunteer Marines were, both the movie and book show the jarheads, on the eve of flying out of their U.
Marines are required to run at least six miles per year for score, but several jarheads love to run above and beyond that semi-annual three-mile test.
 
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