Now Generation Kill tells the soldiers' story in their own words. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted. They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. The troops themselves play a role in the media's presentation of recent wars rather like extras in The Triumph of the Will. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees and other experts, punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Tie-in edition about the shocking and visceral story of First Recon - the first unit of marines behind enemy lines in Iraq.
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