![]() ![]() While chapter intertitles obscurely hint at humor (while referencing the events we’re about to see), Brumley otherwise maintains a strictly neutral, nonjudgmental p.o.v. The first section of Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” comes to mind, although shorn of all melodrama and nearly all human interest, this nonfiction portrait is an even purer distillation of famously brutal Marine training methods. Grueling physical challenges culminate in an epic “death march” with full gear in sweltering heat. Such are the rigorous standards that it can take seven men to properly make one bed. Already hard to differentiate as individuals due to their uniforms and shaven heads, recruits in Platoon 1141 emerge as separate beings only in moments when one of them commits some blunder, prompting sustained humiliation and punishment from their drill sergeant. No buckshot or slug shooting is allowed.Sans narration or interviews, pic echoes the breakdown of individual will and buildup of team-mindedness that comes with indoctrination.Shooters are to bring a target thrower and clay targets to Ortonville, Pontiac Lake, Rose Lake and Sharonville.If doubles are being thrown, two shells may be loaded. Only target and low brass shells with light loads, 71/2 – 9, are allowed.Before a target check occurs, all range muzzleloaders must be discharged and have no obstruction in the barrel.No open powder or flammable powder solvent containers are allowed on the firing line except when loading.Muzzleloaders must be loaded from a separate powder measure only, not from a container, even if it is equipped with a measuring device – and only at the shooting stations.Only the original container, flask or cow horn – holding one pound or less of black powder, pyrodex or other black powder substitute – may be used.Smoking is allowed in designated areas only. No open flame or lighted smoking materials are allowed on the firing line, apron or transfer table areas.No incendiary, explosive and/or tracer ammunition. ![]()
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