Jay Dorleus, an Iraq War veteran, looks at how the Iraq War is portrayed in movies and TV shows.

He looks at the realism of sniper battles in Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" (2014), starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller; "The Wall" (2017), starring John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson; and "Green Zone" (2010), starring Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, and Brendan Gleeson. He discusses his own experience finding and disposing of IEDs when watching "The Hurt Locker" (2008), starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Guy Pearce; Denzel Washington's "A Journal for Jordan" (2021), starring Michael B. Jordan; and "Cherry" (2021), starring Tom Holland. He examines how PTSD is portrayed in "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" (2016), starring Joe Alwyn, Vin Diesel, and Kristen Stewart. He explains what urban warfare in Iraq was like, as seen in "Stop-Loss" (2008), starring Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; and "Generation Kill" (2008), starring Alexander Skarsgård. Finally, he breaks down the infamous "Triangle of Death," as portrayed in "War Dogs" (2016), starring Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, and Ana de Armas.

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Veterans who have been affected by PTSD can contact the PTSD Foundation of America at ptsdusa.org or the Wounded Warrior Project at woundedwarriorproject.org.

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