Jay Dorleus, an Iraq War veteran, looks at how the Iraq War is ... finding and disposing of IEDs when watching "The Hurt Locker" (2008), starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Guy Pearce ...

during what’s known as the “Iraq War troop surge.” He deployed to Iraq in 2008 and stayed for a year. “So many, many sleepless nights,” his mother, Roseanna Cox, explained.