Generation Kill - Marines Official Response
The information below is provided to you as an official Marine Corps response
regarding this series. We ask that you distribute this comment to your
constituents as you deem appropriate.
From: Acting Director, Division of Public Affairs, Headquarters Marine Corps
The recent airing of the first episode of HBO's "Generation Kill" has generated
numerous inquiries regarding Marine Corps support of the series. The Marine
Corps did not provide any official support to the filmmakers. The series is based
on the book by the same title by Evan Wright, a former Rolling Stone magazine
reporter who was embedded with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion at the start of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. While there are certainly aspects of the film that are
accurate, it is at its heart a commercial production. It's raw and has elements
that are very much out of synch with the core values our nation rightly expects
of its Marines. Viewed as a whole, in my estimation, it does not accurately
portray the honor and professionalism of our Corps of Marines.
Major David Romley
Director, Community Relations
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps
3000 Pentagon Rm 4A532
Washington, DC 20350-3000
regarding this series. We ask that you distribute this comment to your
constituents as you deem appropriate.
From: Acting Director, Division of Public Affairs, Headquarters Marine Corps
The recent airing of the first episode of HBO's "Generation Kill" has generated
numerous inquiries regarding Marine Corps support of the series. The Marine
Corps did not provide any official support to the filmmakers. The series is based
on the book by the same title by Evan Wright, a former Rolling Stone magazine
reporter who was embedded with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion at the start of
Operation Iraqi Freedom. While there are certainly aspects of the film that are
accurate, it is at its heart a commercial production. It's raw and has elements
that are very much out of synch with the core values our nation rightly expects
of its Marines. Viewed as a whole, in my estimation, it does not accurately
portray the honor and professionalism of our Corps of Marines.
Major David Romley
Director, Community Relations
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps
3000 Pentagon Rm 4A532
Washington, DC 20350-3000
