Generation Kill :: Based on the Evan Wright's Novel and made by HBO

[aesop081]

I have to go read it now....... ;D

 

[Nfld Sapper]

Sounds like we are all in the same boat.

 

[tomahawk6]

This was episode 7.

With that out of the way, here's Episode 7, "Bomb in the Garden:"

First Recon rolls into Baghdad, and their mission is coming to an end. "We have rolled through this country f@%&ing things up and now we have to show these people what we've liberated them for," one Marine declares, though it turns out to be wishful thinking. They think they're going to be safe in Baghdad, but chaos is spreading. Their translator warns them, obviously prophetically, "You've taken the country apart, but you're not putting it back together. ... All this is a bomb - if it explodes, it will be bigger than the war."

The episode also includes the notorious incident in which First Recon Marine Eric Kocher - who served as the show's technical advisor - gets in trouble for saving people's lives when he ran into a minefield they were marking with chemlights in the black of night and one stepped on a mine.

"It was ridiculous to go into a mine field at nighttime," he says of the operation, and his own actions. "That was the only time I did something my mind was telling me not to do. But before I knew it, I was already in the minefield. I was thinking, 'What the f@%& am I doing?' I'm thinking, 'Wow, this wasn't the greatest idea I ever had.' But I had to get to the engineer. He was screaming me to stay out, that he would low-crawl out. He didn't have a foot, and he's concerned about us. But I got him out. It was kind of heartbreaking. My stomach kind of turned. It was the first time I saw an American casualty right in front of me.

"And then, I'm getting my rights read to me. You've got to be f@%&ing kidding me. I had to write a rebuttal to keep the officers out of trouble for sending us out there (in the first place). It fell on my shoulders when what happened happened."

 

[VIChris]

Back from the dead. I just finished the series, and am hunting down the book. I was quite impressed with the story. Especially after reading about the stir caused by the Generation Kill story. There was a bit of Hollywood to it, but that's what sells I guess.

I just found a bunch of extras online relating to the show. Some behind the scenes type stuff, and interviews with some of the Marines upon which th story is based, as well as cast and crew.

Here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?pi=0&ps=20&sf=&sa=0&sq=&dm=0&p=8565E48FC2A4F5A9

Also, here are the original articles:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938873/the_killer_elite/
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5937455/from_hell_to_baghdad
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/5938010/the_killer_elite_part_three_the_battle_for_baghdad

 

[medaid]

Honestly? I want to meet Fruity Rudy because he's just so unreal!

 

[X-mo-1979]

Watched the whole series overseas and loved it.Saw the book in chapters and browsed through it.I guess Fruity Rudy actually play's himself in the movie.Nice  career change!

 

[Ex-Dragoon]

Great show...picked up the series on a whim from Future Shop and never regretted the decision.

 

[ArmyRick]

I just finished watching the series (I had read the book five years ago) and wow! I like how they captured the mindset and behaviour of young grunts. Anybody who has served in an infantry platoon will recognize the way the troops react to different situations.

I was amazed to find out Fruity Rudy played himself (he is now a former marine turned actor-fitness trainer).

Any word on what happened or is going on now with any of the other prominent characters? I did find a obscure sea doo racing article with Iceman Brad in it.

 

[wannabe SF member]

I know that Nathan Fick became the CEO of a defence related think-tank of some sort.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

I know that Nathan Fick became the CEO of a defence related think-tank of some sort.

Nathaniel C. Fick was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in June 2009.