The director, Gregor Jordan, gets harsh laughs from all this mischief, but his grasp of Army life feels unstable, and Phoenix is enjoyable rather than credible in the role of a hipster Bilko.

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In one YouTube video Mr. Loughner posted online, he said he was an Army recruit at Military Entrance Processing Station in Phoenix.

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Mr Harroun was medically discharged from the Army in 2003 after a car accident and lived in Phoenix, Arizona.

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