Bartles and Murphy are a couple of young guys in the US Army in Iraq, that desert hellhole overun with Jihadist mofos. We assume some people can handle being in combat and some people can't. Maybe nobody can. Maybe everyone who goes into combat comes out deranged to some extent. Anyway, Murph can't handle it and when a female US nurse gets killed he becomes lost, mentally. They go out on patrol and he wanders off. The bad guys grab him, kill him and mutilate his body. His squad spends hours looking for him. Eventually his sargeant and Bartles find him, but instead of recovering his body they send his body floating down a river, supposedly because of the mutilation. Maybe the book gives a better explanation, but the movie is a little weak.
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