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Generation Kill – We are Oscar Mike

The brilliant miniseries Generation Kill from the makers of the Wire and based on the book by Evan Wright has come to an end.

Alan Sepinwall has been doing some fantastic blogging about the series pretty much episode by episode.

Stark Sands who portrayed Lt. Nate Fick in the series writes about the fratty behavior on the ‘Generation Kill’ set.

Here’s the real Nate Fick giving a presentation and taking questions as part of the Rethinking the Future Nature of Competition & Conflict Seminar Series.

Trailer for his excellent book One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

James Ransome writes about his experience of making the series and how it turned his life around and is interviewed along with the real life Eric Kocher on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Staff Sergeant Eric Kocher is one of the men portrayed in Evan Wright’s Generation Kill. A U.S. Marine and member of the First Reconnaissance Battalion has received two purple Heart and a Bronze star, earned during his tour in Afghanistan and four tours of Iraq. There are five short videos on Big Think where Eric Kocher talks about the Marines, Generation Kill and Killing or Being Killed.

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Generation Kill – A Burning Dog

If my mother ever distributed my likeness without written authorisation I would disown her. Sgt. Brad “Iceman” Colbert

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Review: Generation Kill – episode 1

Do we really need yet another drama about the Iraq War? Even if it is from David Simon and Ed Burns the creators of arguably the greatest show on TV. Having now watched the first episode of the HBO miniseries Generation Kill I’m still not sure I can answer the question.

It is a dramatization based on the book of the same name which was a real life account of the journalist Evan Wright who was embedded with the First Recon Battalion of the USMC and so it is as close to the truth as it can be without being a documentary. Yet as you might expect it has gained harsh criticism from many sides with people decrying it as being anti-American and others attacking it for the homophobic comments made by marines in the show.

Based on this first episode I think Generation Kill is going to be a fantastically well made miniseries and will offer a different perspective on the Iraq War to the one we’ve been having for the last five years as it will depict only the 40 days that constituted the actual invasion.

A positive review from Marine Corps Times

A critical review from Democracy Project