Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thousand-yard stare. 'After I lost my first friend, I felt it was best to be detached,' he explained. When recounting his arrival in Vietnam in 1965, then-Corporal Joe Houle (director of the Marine Corps Museum of the Carolinas in 2002) said he saw no emotion in the eyes of his new squad: 'The look in their eyes was like the life was sucked out of them,' later learning that the term for their condition was 'the 1,000-yard stare'. Two-thirds of his company has been killed or wounded. He half-sleeps at night and gouges Japs out of holes all day. About the real-life Marine who was his subject, Lea said: For FY86, we programmed 1,000 Marines to attend specialized skill schools where these. has five military services and each one has one or more 'special' or 'elite' organiz. The Marine Corps fully supports this critical area of security. When will civilians and 'wannabees' learn that the U.S.

Marine Raiders are better at being Marine Raiders. The painting, a 1944 portrait of a nameless Marine at the Battle of Peleliu, is now held by the United States Army Center of Military History in Fort Lesley J. Better at what Army Rangers are better at being Army Rangers.

The phrase was popularized after Life magazine published the painting Marines Call It That 2,000 Yard Stare by World War II artist and correspondent Tom Lea, although the painting was not referred to with that title in the 1945 magazine article. It is also sometimes used more generally to describe the look of dissociation among victims of other types of trauma. The thousand-yard stare or two-thousand-yard stare is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of combatants who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them. Miller would be killed in a firefight at Ebon Atoll a month later. Miller, exhibits the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting at the Battle of Eniwetok, February 1944.

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