Speaking of his past experiences, a Vietnam War veteran describes the darker, unspoken details of life as a soldier that people often overlook.

Fifteen members of the United States Marines tell stories about their time serving in Europe during World War I.

A group of Marines recall their horrifying memories of fighting on the Pacific front of World War II, while a journalist attempts to glorify their experiences for his readers.

Despite not setting foot on the battlefield, a medic witnesses the physical and emotional trauma experienced by American soldiers as he tends to their wounds and attempts to work through his own experience of war.

A veteran tells his acquaintance about his darkest memories as a solider the Vietnam War.

A teenager joins the Marines and goes to Quantico for training, but it is not longer before he starts to wonder whether he can endure the physical and mental challenges he faces there.

When an Iraq veteran goes missing, his friends reenact their wartime routines to lure him out of hiding.

Separated from his unit, an American soldier in France forms an unexpected partnership with a man who seems equally lost. Their adventures eventually lead them back to their unit, but not before they shoot down parachuters that may or may not have been their own men.

When a woman’s husband accepts his army commission for World War II, the woman can only watch with despair as her husband's battalion joins the ranks of those expected to perish in war.

American soldiers discuss their lives while waiting for planes to return from a mission.