Trick Soldier

Meet Lieutenant Flint: hard-edged and muscle-bound, radiating machismo—a bull of a soldier. In the opposite corner stands Captain Turner: with his pencil mustache and tailored shirts, he’s a Trick Soldier—smart, crisply-dressed, and always at attention. They’re fire and ice, oil and water… Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox in Casualties of War.

Ten years ago and a thousand miles away, they attended boot...