[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Just started Generation Kill (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 7/15/2017 8:48:52 PM EDT
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Next to Band Of Brothers it's become my favorite war tv series.
"Fucking Captain America man!" |
 generation_kill: why did u join the marines? Love it! |
| At the end of the last episode they used 2 of my photos in the slide show. The first is a line up of some of our tanks with the gun tubes elevated at Udari Range in Kuwait when we were zeroing the weapons and the second one is the front slope of my tank, same as is in my avatar. Don't know how they got their hands on my pictures though. |
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At the end of the last episode they used 2 of my photos in the slide show. The first is a line up of some of our tanks with the gun tubes elevated at Udari Range in Kuwait when we were zeroing the weapons and the second one is the front slope of my tank, same as is in my avatar. Don't know how they got their hands on my pictures though. |
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At the end of the last episode they used 2 of my photos in the slide show. The first is a line up of some of our tanks with the gun tubes elevated at Udari Range in Kuwait when we were zeroing the weapons and the second one is the front slope of my tank, same as is in my avatar. Don't know how they got their hands on my pictures though. |
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The books Generation Kill and Nathaniel Fick's One Bullet Away are an awesome juxtaposition.
Generation Kill is told from a journalist's view that was primarily surrounded by enlisted dudes. He heard their gripes, their rumors, and their theories about the bigger mission. One Bullet Away parallels the story but from the officer side. It gives most of the 'why'. Reading both, you really get the enlisted mushroom management theory of feed them shit and keep them on the dark, but you also see that the leadership isn't entirely inept and the purpose of the missions is often not passed down through the full chain of command. |
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The books Generation Kill and Nathaniel Fick's One Bullet Away are an awesome juxtaposition. Generation Kill is told from a journalist's view that was primarily surrounded by enlisted dudes. He heard their gripes, their rumors, and their theories about the bigger mission. One Bullet Away parallels the story but from the officer side. It gives most of the 'why'. Reading both, you really get the enlisted mushroom management theory of feed them shit and keep them on the dark, but you also see that the leadership isn't entirely inept and the purpose of the missions is often not passed down through the full chain of command. Lol But how interesting. To have the sole perspective of the officers point of view as opposed to those we were privy only to within the series |