When he was rejected, he decided to go to Los Angeles and try to make it in the movies. He had vague ambitions of being an actor and had auditioned for Juilliard, in Manhattan, because he knew that it didn’t check grades. After high school, he’d been renting a room in the back of his family’s house, in Mishawaka, Indiana, and mowing the grass at a 4-H fairgrounds. The only thing to do was run.ĭriver had joined the Marine Corps the previous year, when he was eighteen. Adam Driver, Marine lance corporal, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Weapons Company, 81st Platoon, was aware of these effects when he looked up at the California sky, during a drill exercise, one day in 2003, and saw a cloud of white phosphorus exploding above his head. As the particles ignite, they emit a garlic-like odor and melt everything in their path. When white phosphorus touches skin, it can burn through to the bone.
