Get Some!!!!! That’s the battle cry of the Recon Marines, the Corp’s Shock Troops. Physical wunderkinds who can run twelve miles wearing 150-pound packs, then swim several more miles in the ocean, still fully decked in boots, fatigues and weapons packs. They are martial artists who parachute, scuba dive and rappel from helicopters — all so that they can down the enemy before the enemy even knows they’re there. But when the 374 men of the First Reconnaissance Battalion landed in Iraq last year for “major combat operations,” stealth had nothing to do with it.
They fired their way through mud villages and dusty towns at enemy soldiers who were indistinguishable from the Iraqi’s they were there to liberate. It was the one experience they had never trained for. The story of first Recon, Generation Kill.
Guests:
Evan Wright, author of “Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War”
Captain Nathaniel Fick, former member of the Marine’s First Reconnaissance Battalion in Iraq.