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Driver began to pick up on strange tensions in their religious community. As teen-agers, Driver and his friends Noah and Aaron would climb radio towers or set things on fire. They would dumpster-dive behind a potato factory and feast on expired chips. They rented movies from P. It made me feel very strange. But then I watched it again almost immediately. In the woods behind a Kroger supermarket, the trio made camcorder movies. They were just action movies. By then, Driver had developed an interest in stage acting.

Instead, he bummed around Indiana, doing odd jobs. He made telemarketing calls for a basement-waterproofing company.

At one point, he was driving around Chicago in the three-piece suit he wore for church, hawking stress balls and National Geographic videos about whales.

He convinced himself that he could use his acting skills to entice people. During one telemarketing call, he asked a woman if her husband was home. I felt terrible. Joining the Marines gave Driver a sense of purpose and some distance from his conservative religious upbringing. He is wary of discussing his parents or religion. The pull between faith and apostasy has interlaced his movie roles. I feel that with acting. I feel that with marriage.

I feel that with being a parent. Hours later, in his dressing room, he was talking about how his suspicion of dogma shaped him as an actor. If you knew how to do it, you would do it perfectly every time. What are you talking about? At noon, Driver was clutching a cup of coffee in a greenroom at the Walter Reade Theatre, before a press conference. Johansson was stuck in traffic. Liotta, who plays a divorce lawyer, approached Driver. My trainer was a marine.

Driver quickly changed the subject. His military background makes him anomalous in Hollywood; the days of Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart leaving pictures to fly combat missions are long gone. Though his time in the Marine Corps was formative—and gave rise to a nonprofit organization he founded, Arts in the Armed Forces, which fosters art appreciation among the troops—it came to a disappointing end.

After more than two years of training, Driver was preparing to ship out to Iraq. On the way down, Driver hit a ditch. The handlebars slammed into his chest, and he dislocated his sternum. Attempting to prove otherwise, he loaded up on hydrocodone and worked out in the gym, but he made the damage worse.

He was honorably discharged, while his former platoon shipped out to the southeast tip of Iraq, to run security missions on the Iranian border. It was early in the war, and the unit returned safely. But Driver was devastated. Hinman said that life after the Marines can be tough under any circumstances. But he felt adrift, his mission unfulfilled. Then, remembering his brush-with-death vow to be a professional actor, he went back to Chicago and re-auditioned for Juilliard.

He was as good at waiting tables as he was at selling vacuums. Juilliard was a shock. He was disdainful of civilian life, sneering at classmates who wore their shirts untucked or arrived late to class.

One time, he snapped so sharply at a student who had used his yoga mat that he reduced the guy to tears. He holed up at the performing-arts library and read plays by David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley, and found that drama helped him express his roiling emotions. His classmates were mystified by the hulking ex-marine.

Driver met Joanne Tucker, a classmate, during his first year. In his third year, he and Tucker started Arts in the Armed Forces. Driver appealed to the U. You want to see some jazz? Juilliard has a policy against students taking professional roles before graduation, so he would have to drop out.

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The Coast Guard tweeted that aircrew members conducted a medical evacuation of a man and an year-old girl. San Diego may be the epicenter of the phenomenon, with high housing costs and multiple military bases within driving distance Remembrance Sunday is a solemn ceremony to remember the sacrifices made by fallen servicemen and women. Army Sniper Course at Fort Israel has warned that it would act with military force if needed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

At least five service members allegedly were part of the deadly pro-Trump mob that assaulted the U. Capitol on Jan. The military's non-tactical vehicle fleet alone is the second largest in the federal government next to the U. Max Cleland, who lost three limbs to a hand grenade blast in Vietnam and went on to represent his native Georgia in the U.

A photo of a Marine kissing his boyfriend upon returning home from a tour of duty is going viral with more than 15, likes and 3, comments on Facebook. The photo, which shows Marine Brandon Morgan locked in a romantic embrace with his boyfriend was initially posted on the Facebook page Gay Marines , where it was met with a great deal of enthusiasm.

Thank you for your service and congratulations on your love. This is what we've been fighting for," one commenter wrote. Thank you for your service to this great country of ours. Be happy and stay safe," wrote another.