02164cam a2200253 4500 381767990 TxAuBib 20190503120000.0 080729s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780425224748 pbk 15.00 0425224740 pbk 15.00 (OCoLC)236482098 TxAuBib Wright, Evan. Generation kill : Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the new face of American war / Evan Wright. Berkeley Caliber trade new afterword ed. New York : Berkeley Caliber, 2008. 370 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm. A narrative on the lives of twenty-three First Recon marines who led the attack on Iraq describes their training and the physical and psychological challenges they faced in skirmishes leading to the fall of Baghdad. "They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terror fell to those like the Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of warrior unrecognizable to their forebears--soldiers raised on hip-hop, Internet porn, and video games, a disparate band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts from kung fu movies and Oprah Winfrey. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary, and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional, and moral horrors ahead, the "First Suicide Battalion" would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and be among the first American combat units baptized in the horrors of Iraq's terrifying guerilla war. Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of those remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality, and camaraderie of a new American War"--Cover, p. 4. 20190503. United States Marine Corps Military life. Iraq War, 2003-2011 Personal narratives, American.