"They're Coming Through The Gates!" - Generation Kill (2008)
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Generation Kill is an American seven-part television miniseries produced for HBO that aired from July 13 to August 24, 2008. It is based on Evan Wright's 2004 book Generation Kill, about his experience as an embedded reporter with the US Marine Corps' 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and was adapted for television by David Simon, Ed Burns, and Wright. The miniseries was directed by Susanna White and Simon Cellan Jones and produced by Andrea Calderwood. The ensemble cast includes Alexander Skarsgård as Sergeant Brad "Iceman" Colbert, Jon Huertas as Sergeant Tony "Poke" Espera, James Ransone as Corporal Josh Ray Person, and Lee Tergesen as Wright.
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Pizza is delivered to the Marines of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion as they prepare for the imminent invasion of Iraq. This moment, drawn from Evan Wright's firsthand accounts in his book, highlights the bizarre and often absurd aspects of military life. Amidst the seriousness and tension of their impending mission, the delivery of something as mundane as pizza serves to humanize the soldiers, illustrating their craving for normalcy and simple comforts.
This scene underscores the surreal juxtaposition of civilian conveniences with the harsh realities of war, providing a brief, almost comical respite in the midst of their rigorous preparations.
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_"humanize the _*_soldiers_*_ ..."_ HUH?
*_WHAT_* Soldiers?
These are *_MARINES_*
These are recon marines not soldiers
@@The_Assassin_of_The_Gray
Exactly. Marines prefer to be called marines and soldiers prefer to be called soldiers. No disrespect intended from either but they both want people to get it right.
They deserve that much.
I love how ever since band of brothers every other time a unit got a luxury they all thought "WTF is the Catch?"
It’s the “final meal” tradition. An army does not march on an empty stomach, much less so knowing they’re going to war. So you give them food and address the war the day of.
Say that to Robert e lee in the civil war when he made his Texan regiment starve themselves for 3 days so they would fight twice as more aggressively then a Union soldier on a full stomach. Guess what it worked even though they still lost the battle they were still extremely fucking effective in battle
@@eddiepope7640they prolly woulda won if they had full stomachs
@@eddiepope7640"Say that to the general who lost," fantastic logic there Eddie 🙃
@@eddiepope7640food is fuel, imagine going on a roadtrip with an empty tank.
@@eddiepope7640but they still got their azz whooped soooo there's that
If they serve steaks on the ship, it's either we're celebrating something or we ball.
Yep. Night before the Battle of Midway, steak and eggs was served aboard the carrier USS Enterprise
Steel Deck picnic was like Groundhog day, 4 more weeks of underway
No monke, battle formations.
Lobster and Steak are usually served to the crew before the announcement of an extended deployment. You let the new guys enjoy it while the previously deployed ones know what's up and just sit in the smoke pit.
fuck it, we ball.
Encino man has that 10 strength 1 intelligence build
good movie 😂
Idiot Savant Perk Unlocked
More like negative 10 intelligence
"YoU Guys GeT sOme PizzA"
He was an Intel officer augmenting recon in real life but given this was early in Iraq he didn't take the situation as seriously as he should've.
The commander is a great example of why you NEED to give a warning order right after receiving the mission as part of the troop leading procedures. It gives your subordinates maximum time to do their own planning, and helps prevent you being a garbage leader. 1/3 of planning time is for you, 2/3s of it are for your people. Don’t sit on important information that your formation needs for survival and mission success. Another side effect is that your people will hear about whatever info you’re not disseminating in a timely manner from their sister units anyways, as also seen here. This makes the smoke pit rumor mill go crazy, and heavily undermines trust and confidence in your ability to command compared to the other company/battery/troop commanders.
Had a co who was just as stupid as encino man it sucked ass
My thought exactly, was going to eat up half of the 48h window sitting around, nevermind when the WARNO was issued
Yes. You explained one of the difference between a staff officer and a leader of men. The Army (probably Marines as well) has a severe lack of leaders of men. Staff Officer thinks all the X's and O's are done by them and men just follow orders. So much goes wrong in the field....SO much. That is war.
This guy officers
Yeah but this guy was a terrible CO. That was the point
If you ever get really good food while deployed, shit's about to go down
Jesus christ, are the mres really that bad?
@@guyshafor1320 Some are hit or miss, but generally yes 😂
I hated steak and lobster+ice cream nights = extension
"What dp they give people on death row"😂
@@guyshafor1320 it’s food 🤷🏻♂️
This is pretty similar to how we knew our deployment at sea was getting extended. When we got served surf and turf on the Truman out of nowhere it meant we were staying out longer, and it went from a 9 month to almost 12.
So that meal cost you almost three extra months deployment service? Ouch! Expensive meal mate!
Nothing comes for free in any organisation. 😅
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 Former Australian Army Reservist 88 to mid 90s
@@markfryer9880 yeah, the lobster and steak didn’t raise morale much lol
@@jebbroham1776yep 4 boats in my naval times… captains or the XO got news we are turning around doing UNREP, steel beach picnic, and lobsters and cocktails…. Yeah we ain’t going anywhere…. Had a guy tried to jump ship.
@@mugekuge We had a Nuke jump off the fantail from the flight deck while we were passing through the Straight of Gibraltar with his boots on, no flight deck gear or float coat. Somehow he survived and was picked up by SAR but that was the end of the line for him. I sympathized somewhat with his decision, being a hull dweller, but at the same time I couldn't understand what would drive someone to that level of madness.
@coolcosmic It certainly wasn't the worst meal I had on that ship let me tell ya lol. There were these things called "hamsters" that were mystery meat but yet were better cooked than the chicken we got. We didn't get them much though, mostly it was famine-dry rice and under-cooked chicken bits.
“I thought I’d bring it up tomorrow”
Yeah wtf lol 24 hrs into a 48hr notice hes gunna tell his team?! Smh. If it wasnt forguys like the LT or iceman these units would get wrecked. Luckily all our boys are naturals an can adjust but thats wild
*How did he not get relieved of command?!*
@@godsonalvarado6656
No one resigned after the US pullout of Afghanistan. Even after piss poor planning & security led to the deaths of 13 Marines & Sailors.
Even after we drone striked the alleged perpetrators, only to have to apologies publicly because they were in fact just some random family.
No one resigns, no one steps down.
So much failure has become the norm.
That is the most accurate portrayal of the military I’ve ever seen. “You guys want some pizza? Oh I was gonna tell y’all tomorrow, yeah we’re moving out.”
This is very similar to that famous German caffeinated chocolate in ww2. Soldiers loved it, but they also knew if they were being issued the chocolate it meant grueling times were ahead.
Never heard it described as "caffienated" before, but I like that
it had meth, not caffeine
@@huormis It had caffeine, it's Scho-ka-cola, which you can still buy (it's pretty good, I have a bunch of it). They didn't make chocolate with amphetamines lol, they were issued little containers of Pervitin, which is meth.
@@eigerwwho needs to put meth into the chocolate when they already have meth M&Ms
They’d be given the drugged chocolate, and spoons full of Schnapps/Cognac before especially rough engagements
20 dollars per slice and without any sprite to wash it down
brutal
To be fair. They are delivering it to an active warzone, with an enemy that likes to make IED ambushes. It's expensive because they might not be able to make it back from the delivery ALIVE! Let alone on time.
Plus they likely had to send a plane with materials, and people who know how to make pizza, half way across the world, make the pizza in the closest NATO protected country, and then drive it though the middle east, to an active FOB.
Would you deliver some $240 pizzas if it meant you will have to drive it to an FOB through Iraq, and back? Most would say "that is not enough". But apparently not pizza hut... Guess they found the statistic of "more likely to get shot in Chicago then Iraq" and took it a bit too literally.
Wait so can you clear this up for me.. you guys weren’t bought the pizza by the Marine Corps… the Marines Corps made you all pay $20 for each slice ?!?!
@@noctisumbra3015 they are outside of
Kuwait city not in an active war zone, it was at the time a major city with 1.4 million people but maybe it’s not as modernized at that point as I’m imagining
@@noctisumbra3015 it wasnt active warzone, yet
Never stow your gear until you are home with your DD-214 in your hands.
And your dd214 blanket to snuggle up in.
Yeah we know what food deliveries mean you’re about to have a much longer deployment
The first step after receiving a WARNO is to start necessary movement. - Army Infantry.
Something I learned in 4.5 years of service, command never just treats their men unless shit is going down within a week
The deduction of troops never to trust treats .sh1t is coming..
Last meal status.
That capt is such a great example of shitty officers
But he offered him his extra slice of pizza. He can't be that bad.
@@michaelfranciotti3900 You can be a great person, and a shitty officer.
Hell, i'd argue that those were more common than generic assholes.
@newnavi2814 I was being sarcastic. Dude is a shitty officer. That's all that matters to the men under his command.
From the stories I hear from people, him offering one of his slices and actually telling them what’s happening makes him one of the greatest officers in the United States military
This moment of LT Fick asking about pizza shines a little moment on "He's capable and trusted by his men, but he's still green".
LT Fick isn'r rly green in this scene. He's asking about the pizza courtously, while prob thinking why the fk is the cpt just eating pizza instead of letting us know to get ready in the next 48 hrs as every other company has begun doing?
Also for the pizza the Cpt basically ate first instead of his men which is quite the no no.
@@NauticalCoffin2404 if he wasn't green, he'd know why they were getting pizza delivered and why the other companies are getting geared up to go. But yeah, the company commander sitting around eating while his men don't have word at a time like that was a poor leadership decision
@@katietheekat Lt Fick had already been to Afghanistan by this point. He knows why, he just can't call encino man a fuckin idiot like he'd like too
@@katietheekatI think the point of him asking is he can read The tea leaves, he knows what they should be doing but requires maps, information from his CO….. so he makes a point to go ask immediately. He’s a junior officer, if he saw the signs and didn’t ask his co what was going on I would be worried.
@@Cambo6377 fair point. He knows there's a reason they're getting pizza but he needs to know which specific reason that is so he can give his NCOs the correct information because his company or platoon could be given different instructions than the rest of the battalion. The first person to go to for the answers would be the company commander.
Every time there is an uptick in pizza delivery in DC something major is happening somewhere around the world the very next day… Pizzameter iirc.
That was the case in the 90's but the Pentagon figured that out because the media realized something big was happening (invasion of Iraq I think) so today they have their own cafeteria with different restaurants. I think they have a Panda Express and some pizza place? Either way, still funny that 'pizzameter' is/was a thing.
INB4 some idiot forgets and just went to town...
That pizza was the marines way of saying get fucked but get fed a good meal beforehand
"good"? early 2000's pizza hut? I'd rather have a chili mac MRE and a side of small arms fire as my last meal.
"No one out pizzas the hut"
Encino Man was such a fool.
He is at least as competent as the people who made the decision to invade Iraq
This series captured the nuance and ridiculousness of the USMC better than any other movie or show.
We had our company commander bring us mcdonalds all the way from kyiv.
While it was nice to have some mickey ds, it did come with a bad feeling and boy were we in for a ride two days later.
Thank you for protecting my Ukrainian brothers
What army is this?
@@SerbianMoss nore of yiur brothers would live longer if they'd surrender.
@@commanderbeepo8066 are you drunk
@@commanderbeepo8066untrue
This clip also highlights Encino Man's incompetence. Actually one of the first red flags to pop up about it in the series.
While all units are already prepping for the imminent invasion, his own unit has absolutely no clue what is going on and why the surge in activities. They only realize something is up due to an unusual mass delivery of pizza to the camp. Who knows what could have happened if there was nothing to indicate something big happening.
Hence when he told that the WARNOs have been issued, one commented that it was "nice of him to mention it". He was expected to come up with his own mission order and disseminate it to his unit ASAP as soon as the warno was issued. Not wait for his subordinates to question if a mission was up.
Fun fact, the Pentagon used to order an absolutely massive amount of pizza right before big military operations. So, it was kind of obvious something was about to go down.
Now that you mention it i recall theres a theory named after a guy that found it out.
There was a relation between pizzas consumed in a certain area and big news on the following days.
Now the pentagon orders ppl to buy food from different places or smth
I have heard of that story and I think that was a journalist who first made the correlation between the pizza orders by the Pentagon and big operations. Not sure how I heard about it but it was via a RUclips channel.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
"Thats why they gave us ice cream."
Bill Guarnere before the paratroopers drop into Normandy.
Underappreciated show
It was a huge hit when it came out
@@badfoody yeah but peeps forget how rewatchable it is
Overrated dogwater is what it is.
@@ErikGomez i probably watched 6-7 times
"Nice of him to fucking mention it"😂
Ah gotta love the last supper
i like the fact that someone said "either we celebrating something or we ball" 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️
I like that every branch has the same last meal tradition, The navy carriers serve steaks when its gonna be a bad day as my great granddad said
“I was gonna tell you tomorrow that today, we’re leaving in 2 days”
That’s some catch-22 right there
Fick should have been the captain and Encino Man should have been the lieutenant.
Encino Man at best should’ve been a grunt. Dude was an absolute liability in any leadership roll
When general mattis speaks, nations move
Morale boost before the tragic news
“General Mattis” is he referring to Mad Dog? He’s a legend!
Whenever they served us special chow it usually meant something really bad was coming...
That guy who played the incompetent captain did a perfect job. Seriously. I just got out of the Navy and holy shit he reminds me perfectly of at least 5 of my old chiefs lmfao
Always be suspicious when you get nice things in the military. You never get something just out of the kindness of the higher ups hearts
"I missed the first battle because i was in the fucking toilet." 😠
R.I.P Evan Wright
From what I’ve learned from a lot of war movies and TV, if you are getting some good food, some ice cream, you are gonna have a fuuuun time tomorrow.
No it means people are gonna potentially die.
Im just waiting for my daily Gay Frog Enjoyer comment
Lmao for real
I'm sorry I was late gents, Captain didn't mention it
@@TheFrogEnjoyerhe made it yay!
"That's why they gave us ice cream"
Ice cream was one of the reason some soldier didn’t go crazy in ww2
“That’s why they gave us ice cream.” -BoB
A cap sitting on waŕning orders, bullshit, needs to be handed down asap.
He said from the river to the sea 😂 we bout to set them free 😂
P I Z Z A T I M E!
Please do Apocalypse Now Next When Ur Down With This
Love how the incompetent captain uses his weapon as a paper weight, nice detail.
So that's where the workplace pizza party was born. "Hey guys, we're invading iraq tomorrow, so enjoy this pizza hut before you die or become maimed for life."
I served in Desert Storm. I still remember the bump in the excitement and tension level on the night the air war started and the last 48 hours before we crossed the Burms. Some of the rumors that fly around are wild , think about them today and they are funny AF.
We got cheeseburgers , onion rings and hot dogs before G Day.
Lesson to be learned here. If command is "spoiling" you, be terrified, there is a catch.
If you ever get pizza, ice cream or steak out of nowhere sht’s about to get real
That feeling when you are sure you have watched generation kill but do not remember this scene...
Tonight we feast, for tomorrow we may die.
The second soldiers start getting lobster pizza or steak is when you know shts gonna hit the fan soon.
Now that’s a leader there perfectly calm as everyone else is frantically preparing for war. He’s so calm under all the pressure that he’ll alert his troops the following day he’s not going to allow a 48hr warning to stop his pizza time. More leaders should take on this calm battle posture. Encino man will go down in almost as if in mythos like Hercules or even the great Achilles.
Marines always have it the hardest
Good food means prepare to deploy.
No one out pizzas the hut
My fellow Americans and our collective love of Pizza Pie...
You got pizza in them moustache hairs
Good TV show for those haven't watched it. It's exactly like The Pacific and Band of Brothers but w/ the Iraqi War between the USA.
Stewards are the unofficial timekeepers of the sea
In our unit, pizza is regarded as a bad omen.
Oh he did mention it, he got the whole fucking platoon Pizza Hut.
Mine was Steak and Lobster Claws before The First Battle of Fallujah. We were almost fooled lol
I met general mattis. His aura demands the most excellent and respect. Most of all, he's a very awesome guy. I was very happy to be able to shake that man's hand.
My former coworker was fresh out of high school in podunk small town USA, wanted a cruisy life, so he joined the marines during a decade of relative peacetime, so he can become an electrician. He was in basic training when they all met for..i guess noonday reveille or whatever they all do at that time as a camp or camp portion. Someone asked them all to pay clear attention to the next words out his mouth..very non descriptly he just said "we are now at war!" And then everyone was dismissed to do whatever theyre scheduled to do next typically. He didnt get any real details except through gossip and eventual communication with the outside. Just in the moment he mentally groaned "oh for fucks sake!" Wondering who the hell we could possibly be at war with and what happened. Mostly just frustrated his awesome plan really backfired. Instead of ease, he got shipped to Kuwait in i guess fall or spring of '01-'02
I graduated from the same High School as General "Mad Dog" Mattis- Go Bombers.
Even the fire house knows that a good officer eats last
They really should make a division dedicated to catering food to the infantry, like actual pizza and what not. It'd save money, time, and would make active service as easy as working at Papa Johns.
Ive always said " if the military gives you ice cream, youre about to earn it." Guess its pizza for marines, would have thought itd been crayons...
“Tonight we dine in hell”
We have something similar to this in af maintenance, "blood pizza" you only see it when your lead knows you're about to have a really shitty REALLY long day/night
The bittersweet "special meal"
Nobody can outpizza the hut.
I was thinking from how he’s kinda panicking that the twist was that they smuggled bombs in with the pizzas, or that the pizza guy snuck a peek at those documents or something.
I think I must be getting old because LT Fick looks so young in this scene. (Yes, I know it's an actor obviously.) I didn't get over until 2007 but I remember parts of the invasion so clearly from when I was on AD. Most of us thought it would be over in a month or two like the Gulf War and we wouldn't get to go. Joke was on us!
if we got surf and turf at chow we knew it was about to kick off. everyone would be stuffing their faces with one eyebrow raised and looking around to see who knew the details.
Unf...kingbelievable!!!
Great movie
This reminds me of how pizza companies close to the Pentagon knew something was going to happen soon because they got a huge order of pizza from. . .the Pentagon.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we . . . .
In the words of another YTuber:
"If youve ever been 'vortex ringed' by George, go hit that subscribe button!" 😆👍
This book was one of my favorite reads. Eye opening
I'd be livid, I hate cheese.
Damn you’re a good shot with some of those no scopes
If you haven't seen this it's a must
Never trust a gift from leadership.
The illusion of normalcy.
It be like that.
Non veteran here. Even I knew they were working extra.
If you get ice cream or steak in the military just know your about to face some real shit
If only civilians knew what us lowly enlisted had to endure when we had incompetant commanders.
It is said somebody knew pentagon gonna anounce war because they track the rate of pizza ordered to the pentagon spiked just before the event
Well, they got 24 more hours' notice than I got.
People actually use this to spy on the Pentagon, whenever there's a big operation, the Pentagon usually order exponentially more pizzas.