GENERATION KILL SERIES REPORT PART 5

Finally the Recon 1 group does something!
For the most part anyway...

They engage a bit, which up until now, the series left you wondering if this Marine Recon group would actually ever DO anything a RECON group is suppose to do.

Iceman put it pretty well, the amount of training, the hours and hours and multiple amounts of different venues of training----to drive around and show some Reporters the countryside....OORAH Sir!

However, as mentioned before, the stellar leadership is still less than...passing up a FULL BLOWN IN YOUR FACE opportunity to DISPOSE OF and RID the world of TRUE BLUE insurgent TERRORISTS JIHAD fighters and their completely exposed weapons cache. Just sitting there, right off the roadside...and they drove right on past it....dooptie doo....

Uhhhh yea. Instead they blew up the ONLY SCHOOL within miles of any other town, with a weapons cache in it. Hmmm stellar leadership again. Oh but it was a controlled det. That makes it perfect right? Yea.


Of course you always have to have to the ONE soldier who is trigger happy because he has that surging amount of fear in him and he is so focused that he lays on the trigger and would shoot a mouse if it ran in the road....unfortunately this was a civilian driving a car...good shot though, right in the head (eye). Certainly stopped that vehicle from approaching after the smoke grenade warning shot.

But at this point, there isn't a true SOP for the rules of road blocks yet...its all trial and error. HEY, its war, not baking cookies.


Overall, it seems like Capt America is making a lot more noise and others are seeing that he has a few too many screws loose. Good thing too...he needs to be pulled from command. Hopefully BEFORE someone gets terribly hurt.

Stay tuned for next week!