![]() "I didn't have a sling for my rifle for the first couple of weeks. not having supplies, buying your own, so you know you have it when you need it," Hofferle said. "All that stuff was 100 percent right on. Their verdict: This was about the most realistic depiction of the life and that war they had ever seen. Stafford, 25, who joined the Marines in 2000, fresh from a job as a line cook in an Apollo Beach restaurant, eventually serving more than four years. Jason Hofferle, 30, a veteran of the Marine Corps Reserves who spent six months in Iraq during the war's early days, working in an amphibious assault vehicle. Petersburg Times on July 3 to watch the first Generation Kill episode, "Get Some."Ĭolleen Krepstekies, 35, an 11-year Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq, leaving the service after supervising 160 soldiers driving fuel trucks through northern Iraq. To gauge the success of Wright and HBO's efforts, we gathered Stafford and two other Iraq war veterans from the Tampa Bay area at the offices of the St. In it, he outlined two months of travel with Marines from the First Reconnaisance Battalion, one of the first units in Iraq when war started. "It turns out, the best, wittiest, most clever, shocking, dramatic lines in the whole series are actually things we didn't come up with as writers," said Evan Wright, who co-wrote scripts based on his book Generation Kill. The journalist who wrote the book that spawned this miniseries says it's all based on real events and real people. The next, a clownish Humvee driver looks at an Iraqi's traditional dress and asks why he's still in pajamas at 10 a.m. One moment, a soldier is goose-stepping behind a superior officer, lampooning his seemingly obsessive focus on the length of soldiers' mustache hairs. Generation Kill is funny in the way only young men coping with long stretches of boredom and flashes of danger can be.
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