Generation Kill 1x2

1. All Hitman Victors be advised,

2. we are rolling freaks to tack One-One-Niner at 1400 Zulu.

3. How copy?

4. Roger. Two-Two copies all.

5. Interrogative. I need crypto.

6. Do you know who's go the CYZ?

7. I'm pretty sure I lost my fill. Over.

8. - Negative. - I don't know a damn thing.

9. All Hitman Two Victors.

10. Keep tight dispersion when linking up with the column.

11. Make sure our other units don't get mixed in.

12. Yes, we are the conquering heroes.

13. Whoa, check it out.

14. Look at this, gents.

15. Little more than 48 hours into the war,

16. and the First Marine Division,

17. out of Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California,

18. is rolling with impunity on Saddam's highways.

19. This sucks.

20. We were on point in front of a whole invasion.

21. Now we're back in a traffic jam.

22. Trombley, how dare you question the strategic plan?

23. Oh, my God, look at this.

24. "Angry American."

25. Oh, "Get some."

26. "Don't tread on me"? "Let's roll?"

27. Fuck, man, I hate that fucking cheesy moto bullshit.

28. Ray, when you're right, you're right.

29. You know, it's like that song

30. with stars and stripes and eagles flying.

31. Fuck, man. Eagles fly in Canada, too.

32. When we got back from Afghanistan,

33. my mom tried to play me that song and I was all,

34. "Fuck no, Mom. I'm a Marine."

35. I don't need to fly a little fucking patriotic flag

36. on my car to show I'm patriotic.

37. That song is straight homosexual, country music, Special Olympic gay.

38. Nasiriyah.

39. 40 clicks.

40. Hey, Q-tip, that truck's all blinged out.

41. Is that how you people do it?

42. Echo four papa,

43. think that Haji's getting sweet on you.

44. Oh, Brad, this fucking sucks!

45. We're in the rear with the fucking chicks,

46. the supply trucks and the Haji truckers.

47. We trained for that bridge mission for six fucking weeks

48. and they take it right out from underneath of us.

49. Yeah. I'll be mad if this war ends

50. before we get a chance to get in it.

51. Drop down here, my little brown friend.

52. Missions are always getting fragged.

53. We're Marines.

54. We obey our orders.

55. Our mission now is not to do our original mission.

56. Semper Gumby.

57. Always flexible.

58. Are we supposed to put our camo nets up or what?

59. You see what that education does.

60. Got a motherfucker out here lifting rocks

61. like he's Fred Flintstone or some shit.

62. I'm taking a shit.

63. Hitman Two-One Alpha, this is Hitman Two, over.

64. Standing by to copy. Over.

65. I need Two-One Actual on the hook. Over.

66. Two-One Actual is, uh, on a mission, taking a dump.

67. First combat dump in-country. Over.

68. Two-One, when he returns,

69. have Two-One Actual contact me. Over.

70. Roger that.

71. Hey, Captain, sir!

72. Where'd you get that nice looking AK?

73. Part of a cache we found in a culvert,

74. near where we took those prisoners.

75. Well oiled, pretty clean.

76. Not bad for a Third World army.

77. Corporal, stow this next to my seat.

78. Gotta be prepared.

79. Never know when you might need an AK.

80. That's why you're in charge, sir.

81. Captain America, man.

82. And to think I believed the judge when he told me

83. the Marine Corps was a superior alternative to jail.

84. I shoulda shut up and done my time.

85. Yeah.

86. Uhh!

87. I don't wants none of you ladies moping and crying!

88. Moustaches gots to go now.

89. Hey! Turd.

90. Scrape that hippy shit off your lip.

91. Screwby.

92. You mocking the grooming standard, Stafford?

93. No, Sergeant Major.

94. It's screwby.

95. I wants to see clean, pretty smiles before we step off.

96. Good dump, Sergeant?

97. Excellent.

98. Shit my brains out.

99. Not too hard, not too runny.

100. Sucks when it's runny and you have to wipe 50 times.

101. That's not what I'm talking about.

102. If it's too hard or too soft, something's not right.

103. You might have a problem that affects combat readiness.

104. And it should be a little bit acid, Trombley.

105. Burn your asshole a little when it comes out.

106. Maybe on your little bitch asshole, Ray,

107. from all the cock that's been stuffed up it.

108. Man, we Marines are so homoerotic.

109. That's all we talk about.

110. You ever realized how homoerotic this whole thing is?

111. L.T. wants to see you, Brad.

112. Oh, shit, Homes.

113. I forgot to tell you. He's on the radio for you.

114. I'm sorry.

115. Garza, how're your legs?

116. They all right standing in that turret all day?

117. Good, Gunny.

118. I'm Mexican.

119. Too hard to feel nothing from that.

120. I got retard strength.

121. I got good news, guys.

122. We're staying here on 25% watch.

123. That means three of you get to sleep a couple hours.

124. Sleep.

125. What kinda fucked up war is this?

126. It's not good.

127. Cas-evac birds been going back and forth since sundown.

128. Sir, the fucking army declared Nasiriyah secured.

129. It's on the net.

130. Whatever's going on up there,

131. it doesn't sound to me like we've secured much of anything.

132. Hey, reporter!

133. What?

134. If you lay with your cock against the ground

135. as the tank goes by, it feels fucking great.

136. Come on! Do it!

137. Corporal Smith, get your fucking head out of your ass!

138. - Hey Rudy! - I forgot my baby wipe!

139. Use your hand, you nasty thing.

140. Come here and wipe my ass, you heartless fuck.

141. I'm fucking ashamed, Dawg.

142. Back in Afghanistan, we didn't leave a speck of Americana behind.

143. Bro...

144. could you imagine if Hajis invaded our country

145. and started shitting in people's suburban yards?

146. Not really.

147. You guys in Alpha getting some?

148. Same as you dick smokers in Bravo.

149. Oh, shit, look.

150. Cody's got a diary.

151. Get some, bro.

152. Hey, man, give it back.

153. No, listen, listen.

154. "Leading men into battle is my calling."

155. Not bad, Corporal.

156. "Since I was young, I felt drawn to the warrior society."

157. Now that's a little gay.

158. "Our minions are ro..." Jeez, "our minions are rolling"?

159. John, he just called you a minion.

160. "The people here live like rats."

161. Give it!

162. "Hopefully what we are doing will lead them to a better life."

163. Your calling wasn't to be a warrior, man,

164. it was to be a fucking retard.

165. reporter, on radio: captured American soldiers,

166. some of them apparently wounded.

167. The channels says the Americans were members

168. of the Army Supply Unit who were ambushed

169. outside Nasiriyah, and in fierce fighting in that city,

170. U.S. Marines are said to have suffered heavy casualties.

171. I heard the Hajis are faking surrenders

172. and using civilians to trick Marines.

173. I don't fucking believe it. How did so many of us get hit?

174. Here we sit with our thumbs up our asses

175. while Marines are dying a few clicks up the road.

176. Well, never pet a burning dog.

177. Why the fuck are there Iraqis walking through our lines?

178. Why the fuck is there nobody up on our guns? Come on.

179. Jacks! Get on the turret!

180. Brad.

181. We've got orders to bust north to Nasiriyah

182. and support the regimental combat team there.

183. And there's been a change in the R.O.E.

184. Anyone with a weapon is declared hostile.

185. If a woman walks away from you

186. with a weapon on her back, shoot her.

187. If an armed Iraqi sells Good Humor out the back of a VW, shoot him.

188. I don't care if you hit 'em with a 40 millimeter grenade.

189. Roger that, sir.

190. Gear up, gents!

191. Moving out!

192. Close your fucking flak vest.

193. Where's your Delta tourniquet?

194. Come on, Trombley.

195. Fucking keep it... here.

196. Where the fuck did you get this?

197. What?

198. eBay. eBay?

199. Christopher! Yeah, Doc.

200. Got rigor tape?

201. Yeah, sure.

202. Thank you, sir.

203. I got this.

204. And this lunatic doesn't even know he's in Iraq.

205. Thinks he's a superhero in some Japanese comic.

206. Hey, I put on my superhero uniform everyday I'm in the Corps, brother.

207. Hoo-rah?

208. Hoo-rah!

209. Now we find our true Dharma.

210. Mike? Comm One in five.

211. Budweiser, we got our call signs straight?

212. Hey, I thought you were Mexican.

213. I am.

214. Then why aren't you loud and stealing my shit?

215. Let's go!

216. Here comes the Marines, motherfuckers!

217. Look out! Whoo!

218. Fuckin' POG.

219. What's a POG?

220. Persons Other than Grunts.

221. Rear-echelon guys. Pussies.

222. All Hitman Two Victors,

223. be advised we are now departing friendly lines.

224. TLs ensure that all weapons are condition one.

225. Brass check all weapons.

226. Godfather, this is Raptor.

227. We're taking small arms fire from the East.

228. Alpha's in contact ahead.

229. They're prosecuting targets with Cobras.

230. Supply company. Army.

231. Oh, damn.

232. And we ain't in the city yet.

233. Godfather, this is Hitman Actual.

234. Uh, interrogative.

235. You want Bravo to push to the river's edge

236. and, uh, link up with Alpha? Over.

237. - Hitman, this is Godfather. - Negative.

238. Taking over watch position and stand by for possible cas-evacs.

239. Victors, all Victors.

240. Get out of your vehicle, take cover.

241. Our sister company is finally in this war.

242. How come Alpha gets to pop their cherry and we don't?

243. They have their mission, we have ours.

244. Love this shit!

245. We's in the middle of it now, boys!

246. Garza, gets your stupid ass down!

247. Ain't nothing for you to shoot at!

248. Sir, how long do we have to sit up here with our nuts out

249. getting shot at before RCT One goes into town?

250. Brad, we sit here with our nuts exposed,

251. or when RCT One assaults over the bridge

252. and we go in behind to get their casualties,

253. we get our nuts blown completely off.

254. Alpha's getting smacked pretty good down there.

255. Shall we dig in, sir?

256. Not a bad idea.

257. L.T.!

258. Those grunts from RCT One

259. are taking fire from across the river.

260. Shit!

261. Marine arti.

262. That was friendly.

263. Sir, request going out there.

264. Go.

265. I'm hit! I'm hit!

266. Hey, buddy. I'm giving you a bandage.

267. That okay?

268. Push it on the wound and keep steady pressure.

269. You're gonna be all right.

270. Check for breathing.

271. Stop the bleeding.

272. I wanna hear reports.

273. Head wounds. Chest wounds. Bleeders.

274. Godfather, this is Assassin Actual. Over.

275. This is Godfather.

276. Send traffic. Over.

277. Interrogative. Request permission to engage unarmed targets.

278. Suspected enemy forward observers. Over.

279. Stand by, Assassin. I'll confer with Division.

280. Division approves change in the R.O.E.

281. Assassin, this is Godfather.

282. Change in the R.O.E. is approved.

283. You are approved to destroy unarmed targets suspected as spotters. How copy?

284. Solid copy. Out.

285. We're cleared hot on civilian spotters,

286. regardless of whether they're armed.

287. If they're spotting those mortars, take them the fuck out.

288. Roger that.

289. Sir, it's Colonel Dowdy from RCT One with General Mattis.

290. They're up by the MSR.

291. With the resistance we've seen, I'm concerned that initiating...

292. My question is, why the fuck am I standing here looking

293. at a fucking bridge that doesn't have my Marines rolling across it?

294. Sir, we're 30 mikes from initiating the armor assault

295. to engage the enemy along the MSR through the city.

296. Our problem has been refueling the tank.

297. Not only no, Colonel, but fuck no, okay?

298. I don't give a rat's ass about the resistance in this city.

299. Your mission is to punch through the city

300. and put RCT One north of it where our objectives are.

301. This is just a fucking side show.

302. You got 7,000 Marine riflemen who've been ready to go for the last 24 hours

303. and you're standing here with your foot on your dick.

304. No, check that. Not your dick, my dick.

305. Godfather, hold your Marines back for now.

306. When Colonel Dowdy here sees fit to un-fuck himself

307. and push through this fucking shit-hole,

308. I'll turn first recon loose.

309. That'd be my Alpha Company taking out their spotters.

310. I'd expect this mortar fire to stop shortly, sir.

311. How's it going?

312. They shot one of my Marines in the stomach out there.

313. We returned fire, blew a donkey's head off.

314. We didn't see much else.

315. Hey, buddy, do you need anything?

316. Food, water?

317. It's all good, bro.

318. Expect a fight.

319. Expect casualties when we push through Nasiriyah.

320. Task Force Tarawa's been in that city for 36 hours

321. getting chopped up pretty good

322. while we sit here with the Regimental Combat Team

323. nursing our thumbs with our assholes.

324. Gentlemen, what does Ferrando think?

325. We have allowed the enemy

326. to dictate the tempo of our movements.

327. If it were up to Ferrando,

328. we would not have stopped at the bridge this afternoon.

329. We'd be through that city.

330. But the good news is,

331. once we clear the Euphrates,

332. General Mattis informs me

333. that we are going to be in the game, gentlemen.

334. And when we play, we, not the enemy,

335. are going to dictate the tempo.

336. Once we're over the river,

337. we're going to detach from the RCT,

338. push north and flank or destroy

339. anyone who tries to stop us.

340. All right, that's it for now, gentlemen.

341. He didn't say anything about the grooming standard.

342. Is he giving us a pass on our men not shaving?

343. I'd interpret what he said to mean facial hair

344. is not going to be our focus for the next 24 hours.

345. 50% of Americans are obese.

346. You know what obese means, right?

347. Fat as a motherfucker.

348. All these other countries, nobody's fat.

349. Think about that shit, dawg.

350. How does a motherfucker get fat?

351. You gotta sit on the couch,

352. do nothing but eat and watch TV all day.

353. White trash, poor Mexicans and blacks,

354. all obese as motherfuckers.

355. See, the white man has created a system with so much excess

356. that even poor motherfuckers are fat.

357. Uh-huh.

358. Few years ago, dawg,

359. I refused a diploma from my community college.

360. What?

361. Yeah, I didn't want no piece of paper from the white master

362. saying I was qualified for his world.

363. Hm.

364. Then I joined the Corps.

365. Figured if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

366. See, that's what this is all about, dawg.

367. The U.S. should just go into all these fucked-up countries,

368. Iraq, Africa, set up American government and infrastructure.

369. McDonald's, Starbucks, MTV.

370. Then just hand it all over.

371. I mean, how else we gonna make these hungry motherfuckers

372. want to stop killing everybody?

373. Put a McDonald's on every fucking corner.

374. If we've got to blow up the corner

375. then build a McDonald's, so be it.

376. Enough lecture on the white man's oppression.

377. I need my assistant team leader for a meet with the L.T.

378. I was just elucidating on the white man's burden, dawg.

379. Now, Poke.

380. Not rolling with you.

381. Come on.

382. Thanks, man.

383. What?

384. Just wanted to get one last cigarette before we all die.

385. BBC had that U.S. Army convoy hit here.

386. Captured eleven soldiers.

387. Showed 'em on Arab TV.

388. Abusing 'em on TV.

389. Shit, they raped the one woman soldier.

390. They broke her bones and then raped her.

391. It was on Al Jeazera.

392. News for you, gents.

393. This neck of the desert, when they capture soldiers,

394. not just the women get raped.

395. In your dreams, Brad.

396. As we learned today from the eight hours we spent

397. getting our asses shot at by the Euphrates,

398. enemy's got some fight in him.

399. I have no word on our mission,

400. but I assume we're going into Nasiriyah.

401. Those are all cas-evac birds.

402. Word is that Task Force Tarawa's

403. taken 200 casualties in that city.

404. Any idea when we might get tasked with going in?

405. Godfather's meeting with company commanders right now.

406. Y'all take advantage of the time now

407. to have your men get some shut eye.

408. L.T.

409. What's the skinny on who we're fighting in the city?

410. All I saw today were those guys in black pajamas.

411. Irregulars. The Fedayeen.

412. Guys in pajamas stopped two Marine regiments?

413. You know, Poke, guys in black pajamas did all right in Vietnam, too.

414. You gotta respect the pajama.

415. Well, from the amount of arti we're putting down,

416. I don't think we'll have as much to worry about when we go through.

417. What's the population here?

418. I've heard 400,000.

419. Scratch a few off that number.

420. Gunny and I are going over to Godfather's position,

421. see what's coming down to the captain.

422. What about James Alvarez Trombley?

423. That's stupid. You're stupid.

424. Change in personnel.

425. Gabe, you're swapping with Hasser.

426. You've got more experience on the 50 cal.

427. Fine with me.

428. Hasser! Yeah.

429. I'm trading you for a Mexican.

430. You're in Brad's truck now.

431. Good to go.

432. Oh, hey, Gabe.

433. Do you have the photograph of my girlfriend

434. I was showing to Person the other day?

435. No.

436. I think I gave it to Leon.

437. Leon?

438. You let these plebeians look at a photograph of your girlfriend?

439. Hey, Walt? Could you keep it down?

440. I'm having trouble hearing the artillery.

441. And we have to play the game harder.

442. Godfather said that.

443. Was the colonel any more specific

444. about our orders than that?

445. Godfather told us the mustache-growing contest

446. had nothing to do with building morale.

447. Before the war began, Division G-Two had covert-asset intel

448. that Iraqis planned to infiltrate our units.

449. The mustaches were part of the general's plan

450. to uncover enemy infiltrators.

451. So if you see a Marine with a mustache from now on,

452. he might be an Iraqi.

453. So no more mustaches.

454. But the men don't have to shave tonight.

455. Oh, yeah.

456. Bravo's on point when we roll through Nasiriyah.

457. And then break from the main force.

458. On point.

459. In broken-down unarmored Humvees.

460. They should change our name to First Suicide Battalion.

461. We need to make sure the stupidity in this company

462. doesn't roll down too hard on our guys.

463. What about just James Trombley?

464. Aw, come on.

465. Trombley, you should name your kid Jesus.

466. I mean, your wife's Mexican.

467. I mean, fucking Mexicans do it all the time.

468. That's what's cool about knocking up a Mexican girl.

469. She could drop a Jesus.

470. Never have kids.

471. In fact, Trombley, you should never have gotten married.

472. Woman will always cost,

473. but marriage is the most expensive way to go.

474. If you want to pay for it, go to Australia.

475. For a hundred bucks you can order a whore over the phone.

476. Half an hour later, she arrives at your door,

477. fresh and hot like a pizza.

478. Twenty hundred hours Zulu time we go in.

479. Hitman Two is leading the battalion.

480. Your vehicle is on point for all of us. Yes, sir.

481. Once we cross the Euphrates, expect contact from both sides.

482. Task Force Tarawa Amtracs.

483. Looks like a CAAT team.

484. Straight leg grunt platoon.

485. Gotta be careful about blue-on-blue contact.

486. Any potential targets we see within 300 meters of our position,

487. we double-check to make sure they're not friendly.

488. Hey, what time local is twenty hundred Zulu?

489. 2300 hours. It'll be dark.

490. To our advantage.

491. True, sir.

492. If we had enough batteries to power our night optics.

493. You turn everything on when we move.

494. I'm just glad they had the wisdom to push us through at night.

495. I'm assured that we will be crossing that bridge before dawn.

496. I'm assured of this.

497. Be advised, we have friendlies on our right

498. immediately after the bridge.

499. Hitman Two, this is Two-One-Bravo.

500. Be advised. We have friendlies on both sides. Copy. Over.

501. Sergeant, I thought they were gonna send us over the bridge in the darkness?

502. Mm-mm. Not retarded enough.

503. Careful with the Ripped Fuel.

504. Fuck, man! I'm on 30 hours no sleep!

505. Beats the record I made in high school when I was on the debate team.

506. Oh, man, you were on the debate team?

507. What channels for the 1-19?

508. Six, four and TAD-seven.

509. Yeah, I was really, really fucking good,

510. but all of the other guys on the team thought I was high all the time.

511. Shut up, Ray.

512. All right! Let's make some money.

513. All Hitman Two Victors.

514. This is Hitman Two-One.

515. Be advised.

516. We have elements of Task Force Tarawa

517. strong play in intersections north of the bridge.

518. Two one Bravo copies.

519. Two-Two. Roger.

520. Shit!

521. Fucking tranny fluid from the Amtracs.

522. Jesus, Brad.

523. Watch the road.

524. It's nothing, Trombley.

525. This is Hitman Two Tree.

526. Fucking Baptista.

527. I don't copy, Hitman Two-Three.

528. I don't copy a word you're saying.

529. Every time Baptista gets excited,

530. his English goes out the fucking window.

531. I mean, he's not even a citizen.

532. He snuck in from whatever fucking

533. greaseball country he's from and now he's a Marine.

534. You know, there ought to at least be some sorta grammar test

535. before you're out here blowing shit up with heavy weapons.

536. If they did that, fucking bucktooth, cross-eyed,

537. sister-fucking hicks like you wouldn't get in either.

538. I've got friendlies to my three.

539. Yeah, I got them on my nine.

540. - Hitman Two Victors. - Hitman Two Victors. Be advised.

541. Assassin and Raptor are in enemy contact to our rear. How copy?

542. Two-One copy.

543. Fuck.

544. All the bad guys are opening up on the guys behind us.

545. Why aren't they shooting at us?

546. Whoo!

547. He got some didn't he, bro!

548. Fuck, yeah!

549. You got that, right?

550. Most definitely.

551. CNN would definitely pay for drama like that, bro.

552. That shit was extreme!

553. Whoo!

554. Whoo!

555. All Hitman Victors halt.

556. Stop here.

557. Second story building. 300 meters. Let's roll!

558. We gotta get that nine-line up.

559. Three-One. Solid on our sector.

560. This is a nice place for an ambush.

561. Why the fuck are we stopped?

562. Orders.

563. Charlie's halting for five minutes to help cas-evac

564. a wounded Marine from RCT One.

565. This is nuts halting us here.

566. We're sitting ducks.

567. This is the last place that we should be.

568. I am so sick of Captain America spazzing out on our comms.

569. They could be coming from all sides.

570. They could be coming from all sides!

571. Is our platoon commander okay?

572. We'll be all right if I turn my 50 to our six

573. and let off a few rounds.

574. You guys got that?

575. It's fucking ours.

576. No, it's not. It's an AK.

577. Yeah, and it belongs to our fucking platoon commander.

578. Hitman Three, this is Three-Two interrogative.

579. What are you engaging?

580. Sir, why'd you shoot the car?

581. Denying the enemy transportation.

582. This is Hitman Three.

583. How much longer are we gonna be halted here

584. waiting to die in fucking Ambush Alley?

585. My men really need to know. Out.

586. Godfather, Godfather, this is Raptor.

587. Cas-evac Marine is stabilized. We're Oscar Mike. Over.

588. All Hitman Victors, this is Hitman.

589. The battalion is Oscar Mike.

590. Ha!

591. Ha!

592. Sergeant, I didn't get to shoot.

593. That fucking sucks, Trombley.

594. Did your recruiting officer tell you you'd get to shoot people?

595. Fuckin'-A, he did.

596. See, Trombley asked about shooting people.

597. I asked about pussy.

598. Guy told me I'd get to go to Thailand

599. and get all kinds of strange.

600. What'd you ask about, Brad?

601. Brad probably saw that TV commercial,

602. the one with the knight who fucks up the dragon

603. who turns into the Marine.

604. Ooh! Dress blues with a sword!

605. Ha ha! That fuckin' dress blues commercial, man.

606. That got so many fucking guys.

607. Now look at us.

608. Trombley hasn't killed anybody,

609. I am half a world away from good Thai pussy,

610. and Colbert is out here rolling around Fuckbutt, Iraq,

611. hunting for dragons in a MOPP suit

612. that smells like four days of piss and ball sweat.

613. Nice.

614. You shoulda rolled into battle with a sword, Brad.

615. That woulda fucking rocked.

616. Orders are to push north along Route Seven

617. until we get to a cut-off here.

618. Gentlemen, our A-O is now Mesopotamia,

619. the land between the Euphrates, the Tigris,

620. the cradle of civilization.

621. Marines ahead of us sure civilized these motherfuckers.

622. Second LAR was out here alone last night.

623. Pushed through Nasiriyah ahead of us. Set up here.

624. RPG teams came at them all night.

625. They cut 'em down with their bushmasters.

626. Mad respect for the LAVs, sir.

627. Don't get too comfortable.

628. We're losing them after ten clicks.

629. We're cutting off the highway here,

630. separating from the main element.

631. And once we leave the hardball here, Godfather has us

632. pushing through a canal area, rolling on our own.

633. Team Two, rally up!

634. Shady. Wha?

635. I wanted to apologize for blowing my stack on comms back there.

636. Ah, I think to myself, why is Iceman so angry?

637. Someone pees in his corn flakes this morning?

638. Shady, I'm not being critical of you,

639. but sometimes when you get excited,

640. you speak Spanish on the comm.

641. Mm, this is strange,

642. because in Brazil, my country, we speak Portuguese.

643. Yeah, well, whatever language you people speak down there,

644. try to stick to English when we're on Marine Corps comms.

645. Si, Colbert. Si.

646. Put a round through the same hole at 2,000 meters.

647. Yeah, man. They actually had to make the gun less accurate.

648. Still railing on the white man?

649. Eh, I don't hate the white man no more.

650. Leave that to these motherfuckers.

651. Me, I'm just standing here in Iraq, eating my pound cake,

652. playing on the white man's team.

653. Not the surrendering Iraqis we've seen.

654. These guys came to fight.

655. Dawg, motherfucker died trying to get a round off.

656. Combat discipline.

657. All Hitman Two Victors.

658. Observe everything, admire nothing.

659. Man, I am so high from not sleeping.

660. So check this out.

661. Maybe they didn't issue the wrong color fatigues for the invasion.

662. Maybe our blouses actually aren't green.

663. Maybe they are desert beige.

664. You know, like sometimes colors actually start

665. to look different when you're so sleep-deprived?

666. Like the sun, it looks red when it actually is yellow.

667. You know, maybe our blouses aren't green,

668. we're just so fucking sleep-deprived

669. that that's the way that they look to us.

670. Are you making this up?

671. Fuck yeah, I'm making this up.

672. It passes the time, brother.

673. Get some. Look at that truck!

674. PM Twenty-One.

675. A legit target.

676. Oh.

677. It's like a Halloween funhouse.

678. Stay frosty.

679. Two-One Bravo.

680. Two men in that car to our three.

681. Do you see weapons?

682. Two-One Alpha, this is Two-One Bravo.

683. No weapons.

684. These guys are down for the count.

685. Wow.

686. She's dead. Nothing we can do.

687. Well, well, well.

688. Who's the sicko in our Humvee now?

689. The psycho-ass Jarheads or the fucking liberal media

690. just looking for a little exploitation?

691. Hey, bro, get that dude right there.

692. That's not a dude.

693. Hey, Christopher, man, turn it off.

694. Huh? Turn the camera off, bro.

695. So it's a snuff film now?

696. I'm seeing what you see.

697. You and Doc take Chris and Stafford off my truck.

698. They need some experience.

699. Roger that, sir.

700. Hitman, this is Hitman Two.

701. We have what looks like an enemy encampment.

702. Hitman Two, this is Hitman Actual on your six.

703. LAR taught these Hajis a lesson they won't forget.

704. Girl with the chopped-off legs is sure gonna remember.

705. What the hell is your problem?

706. Last night, my best team could only maintain night optics at 50%.

707. You are not supplying us with the batteries we need.

708. L.T...

709. You've got more optics and thermals on that vest

710. than I've got in the whole platoon.

711. And I bet you've got the batteries to run them all night long.

712. You're way out of line.

713. These are for Bravo's command.

714. The men need to conserve resources.

715. The Marine Corps teaches that.

716. PFC Fucknuts, this is an enemy encampment.

717. Yo, man. It might be booby-trapped.

718. Don't blaze a trail.

719. Tread in Sergeant Colbert's footsteps.

720. Say hello to my little friend.

721. What the fuck are you doing?

722. Denying the enemy.

723. We could have took that for our own.

724. Haji rice?

725. These men living here on rice and beans,

726. sleeping out here in the cold on these rags,

727. these are some fucking hard men.

728. You ladies bitch if you get an MRE without a fucking Pop Tart.

729. Movement right!

730. 9:00!

731. Republican Guard insignia!

732. Special Saddam division.

733. Bravo Three's commander. Should I shoot him?

734. Don't waste your bullet.

735. All Hitman Victors, this is Hitman Two.

736. Be advised the report on an enemy gas attack

737. was, again, in error. Break.

738. All Hitman teams return to MOPP two posture. Over.

739. man #2, on radio: Two-One Alpha copy.

740. This is plain undignified.

741. Hello, everyone.

742. I'm Michael Jackson. Mwah.

743. This is fucking miserable.

744. Yeah, but we get to invade a whole fucking country, dude!

745. At this point I almost wish Saddam would gas us.

746. It would make all the effort with our MOPP suits worth it.

747. It would justify the invasion.

748. Oh, there's no doubt Saddam's got chemicals.

749. It's just you liberal dick-sucks

750. who try to pick everything apart.

751. Foot-mobiles, 2:00.

752. Maybe 900 meters out.

753. Took a few rounds in that gas station.

754. Pushing through.

755. Bravo Three's behind us, right?

756. They're taking fire from that gas station we passed?

757. Slow down.

758. I guess.

759. - This is Hitman Two. - Roger that.

760. Is that an RPG tube?

761. Hitman Two, this is Two-One.

762. We got two foot-mobiles on our 2:00.

763. 900 meters out in black.

764. They appear to be carrying an RPG tube.

765. How copy?

766. - Hitman Two-One. - Wake one. Over.

767. Hey, Walt, do you see them?

768. They fucking popped down.

769. I see 'em. Down that ditch.

770. Hitman Two-One, go ahead

771. and halt your vehicle. Over.

772. Person, halt the vehicle.

773. Hitman Actual, this is Hitman Two.

774. We are halting to engage possible foot-mobiles.

775. How copy? Over.

776. This is Hitman. Solid copy.

777. All Hitman Victors be advised.

778. Raptor is now actively engaged in foot-mobiles to our six.

779. Flashing.

780. They got optics on us.

781. Hitman, this is Hitman Two-Three, interrogative.

782. That same gas station has engaged Three-Two. Over.

783. One keeps popping his head up.

784. Unknown at this time. Over.

785. I'm not 100% confident that was an RPG tube,

786. but I'm sure they're putting optics on us.

787. Pappy, Reyes, get the M-40 and punch out to that berm.

788. Two-Two. Roger.

789. Hitman, this is Hitman Two.

790. Be advised.

791. Enemy foot-mobiles to our east

792. have optics on us and appear to be armed

793. with an RPG tube. How copy?

794. Hitman Two, this is Hitman.

795. You are approved to engage those targets.

796. Solid copy.

797. Hitman Two-Two Echo Five Romeo.

798. This is Hitman Two. You are approved to engage.

799. Roger that.

800. Raptor, this is Godfather.

801. Range to target.

802. Niner, seven, niner.

803. Still taking small arms fire

804. in the vicinity of the gas station. Break.

805. Wind moving from west to east, quarter value.

806. On scope.

807. On target.

808. Fire.

809. Stand by for second target. Low-crawling.

810. East five yards. You got him?

811. I tally.

812. Fire.

813. Hit.

814. Men from that camp we found.

815. Raptor to Godfather, target has been suppressed.

816. - Raptor, this is Godfather. - Solid copy.

817. - All Hitman Two Victor. - This is Hitman Two.

818. We have destroyed the RPG team, over.

819. You all got some? How'd it feel to kill?

820. I don't know, dog.

821. It felt fucking good, I guess.

822. Man!

823. I try to live my life by the Tao, bro.

824. I can't always make my own dharma.

825. I hate them filthy Haji fucks.

826. That's what I love about you, Dawg.

827. You're so fucking messed up.

828. That's how I roll.

829. All right, gents. Let's mount up.

830. Godfather, neutralize personnel

831. by the gas station.

832. Still receiving sporadic mortar fire. Over.

833. Charlie's still taking fire from that gas station?

834. - Raptor, this is Godfather. - Solid copy. Out.

835. All Hitman Victors, this is Hitman Three-Three.

836. We're taking inaccurate...

837. 9:00. About 600 meters.

838. We cannot observe the shooter.

839. Hey, could you fucking see that?

840. I don't think that guy was armed.

841. We didn't see what the Captain saw.

842. He's our commander.

843. All Hitman Victors, we are off the mic.

844. See that trail?

845. We're going to the left.

846. The whole rest of the division is going the other way.

847. Just us?

848. Just First Recon.

849. This has the makings of a legit fucking mission.

850. We're screening.

851. Doing a route for reconnaissance,

852. maybe movement to contact.

853. We got fifteen clicks on our own.

854. Gonna link up with R.C.T.-One

855. outside the next shit-hole town.

856. We got no air.

857. There's a shamal storm coming.

858. Rotary isn't flying.

859. Oh, great, so we're basically

860. just like bait for the bad guys.

861. Yep, but we'll be the first Americans

862. to roll down this road.

863. Turn and we're money.

864. All in Two Victors hold thirty-five KPH.

865. Maintain dispersion.

866. - Roger that. - Turning left.

867. Solid copy.

868. I smell a God damn Charms.

869. Sorry, Sergeant. I had one left.

870. Hey, you know what sucks?

871. All those dead bodies we seen today...

872. and I didn't get to shoot any of 'em.

873. I see foot-mobiles.

874. 12:00, a hundred meters.

875. Damn!

876. Brad! They're fucking hotties!

877. I didn't know Hajis could be hotties.

878. I thought that they were all camel-faced hags!

879. Hey!

880. As-salamu alaykum, ladies!

881. Damn, homey!

882. This is better than when I was in my band!

883. 'Cause they haven't heard you play.

884. We love you, America, we love you!

885. Thank you! Vote Republican!

886. Two-One, this is Two.

887. I need you to take that bridge over the canal ahead.

888. How copy?

889. Hitman Two, interrogative.

890. Am I to understand you mean the near bridge?

891. Because I don't think that's the correct turn.

892. Direct order from Hitman Actual.

893. He's going off of his map.

894. Roger that.

895. They let him have a map?

896. Whoa, whoa!

897. All Hitman Two Victors halt.

898. What the fuck are we stopping for?

899. Brad, what's going on?

900. - Hitman Two-One Alpha. - This is Hitman Two-Three.

901. What's going on up there?

902. Motherfucker.

903. Hitman Two-One, this is Hitman.

904. Interrogative. Why are we stopped? Over.

905. Hitman, this is Hitman Two-One.

906. No more road.

907. He's figuring out we're lost.

908. I coulda told him that half an hour ago.

909. The whole battalion's two clicks east of us

910. on the other side of the Gharraf Canal.

911. We are now to the rear of everybody.

912. He's our commander, Brad.

913. Hitman Two, this is Hitman Actual.

914. We're gonna backtrack.

915. Hitman Three will be on point.

916. Colbert's team took a wrong turn at the bridge.

917. Hitman, this is Hitman Two.

918. We have multiple unarmed civilians

919. fleeing the town en masse.

920. We're gonna stop to question them.

921. Over.

922. This is Hitman. Roger that.

923. Villagers say they are grateful to be liberated by the Americans

924. and look forward to working hand-in-hand in rebuilding Iraq...

925. You're lying, Meesh, and they fucking know it.

926. Meesh, cut whatever fucking bullshit

927. the higher-ups have told you to say.

928. We're all alone out here, Meesh.

929. You fuck us, I'll smile killing you.

930. When they hired me, they told me to put

931. a little spin on things, a little psy-ops.

932. But you're right. We're in this together.

933. These dudes are saying there are some bad dudes up ahead.

934. They know we're coming, and they want to hit us.

935. They hate America, man.

936. I say we call in some air, some Cobras, fuck them up.

937. There is no air.

938. The shamal is coming.

939. Where did we get this so-called interpreter?

940. He told me he works directly for General Mattis.

941. He told me he worked for the CIA.

942. Back at Matilda, he told me he could hook me up

943. with free satellite TV.

944. Hitman Two, this is Godfather.

945. I can't reach Hitman Actual, but be advised.

946. Raptor and Assassin are taking heavy fire from the town.

947. Roger that. Stay frosty.

948. Two clicks up the road, Alpha, Charlie and H-and-S

949. are pinned down, taking heavy fire from the town.

950. Looks like another Nasiriyah.

951. Hitman Two, this is Godfather.

952. We're gonna try to find a way to bypass the town.

953. Copy. Battalion's trying to find a way around...

954. link up with RCT One.

955. We hold this position until instructed further.

956. One round AT airburst, one round AT quick.

957. Gentlemen, we're looking at a pretty short ride.

958. We're gonna link up with the Regimental Combat Team,

959. after which we rack out tonight.

960. Aren't we going through the town?

961. Nope.

962. But I didn't get to shoot yet.

963. Hey, that town stopped a whole regiment

964. with, like, tanks and shit.

965. But I didn't even get one...

966. Trombley... if we went through that town,

967. we'd get smoked.

968. That was the danger-close fire mission right there.

969. On the money. It's a good effect on target.

970. Assassin, this is Godfather. How copy?

971. Solid copy, Godfather.

972. Outstanding fire mission. Stand by.

973. This is the town just up the road.

974. I see it's not even named here on my map.

975. Frankly, Ferrando doesn't give a fuck what they call it.

976. I'm not gonna visit long or make friends.

977. We're planning to go through?

978. Do we have the sit-rep

979. on enemy forces inside this town?

980. Enough to stop Colonel Dowdy and 7,000 RCT Marines.

981. Yeah, enough to stop Colonel Dowdy.

982. But personally, Godfather doesn't like

983. being told what to do by the enemy.

984. I don't like the fact that the enemy had me sitting

985. in this shit-hole the past couple hours.

986. I might choose a different hole, somewhere else.

987. I plan to find that hole by going through that town up ahead.

988. That's one thing I've learned these past days in Iraq...

989. there's no shortage of shit-holes.

990. More shit-holes in this country than oil wells.

991. Assassin, this is Godfather.

992. - Roger, Godfather. - Standing by.

993. Assassin, Godfather thinks you did a shit-hot job

994. calling in those danger-close fires,

995. just like you were shit-hot taking out

996. those forward observers by the Nasiriyah bridge.

997. Roger that.

998. I want Assassin on point

999. when we push through that town... how copy?

1000. Godfather, we've found there's an open route around the town.

1001. I want you to step off in five Mikes.

1002. Push through that town. How copy?

1003. Honored.

1004. Through the city in five.

1005. $300,000, Trombley.

1006. That's the cost to raise your average middle-class white kid.

1007. Now, maybe since your fiancée's Mexican

1008. and you'll have little half-Mexican babies,

1009. you can cut corners... do it on the cheap.

1010. I bet Sergeant Espera's parents

1011. didn't spend more than a hundred to raise him.

1012. But of course, look how he turned out.

1013. You against marriage, Sergeant?

1014. Brad got dumped.

1015. My sweetheart since junior high.

1016. Left me...

1017. and married my best friend since junior high.

1018. And we're all still friends.

1019. They're one of those happy couples

1020. that likes to take pictures of themselves

1021. and hang them up all over their God damn house.

1022. Sometimes I go over there just to look at my ex-fiancée

1023. doing all the things I used to do with her

1024. with my best friend.

1025. Surfing and...

1026. jet-skiing.

1027. It's nice having friends.

1028. Change of orders.

1029. We're going through the town.

1030. Alpha's already rolling. We're picking up the rear.

1031. It's just us.

1032. There's no air because of a shamal moving in.

1033. We're the last element to roll through.

1034. Nobody stops. Nobody gets cut off.

1035. I'm glad you're my team leader.

1036. Thank you, sir.

1037. Shit.

1038. We're way behind.

1039. I'm doing the best that I can.

1040. This isn't the 805 above La Jolla, you know.

1041. Hitman Three sustained a casualty.

1042. Bravo Three has a casualty.

1043. They were taking fire from the left and right.

1044. Took fire from both sides.

1045. Who was it?

1046. No.

1047. Alpha and H-and-S have cleared the town, over.

1048. Alpha and H-and-S are through the town.

1049. Roger that.

1050. Gentlemen.

1051. From now on we're gonna have to earn our stories.

1052. Hold your dispersion.

1053. Hitman Two says Alpha cleared this town under heavy fire!

1054. No casualties were reported.

1055. Bruh.

1056. We aren't they shooting at us?

1057. Gah!

1058. Contact front!

1059. Here we go, boys!

1060. Yeah? What a fuckin' birthday.

1061. Yeah, happy birthday, bitch!

1062. You're about to get shot in the face.

1063. Aagh!

1064. Aah!

1065. Shoot that motherfucker!

1066. Don't leave me here!

1067. What?

1068. Don't leave me!

1069. Fucking get 'em!

1070. Come on, hit that building!

1071. Let's go, let's go! Pick up the rear fire!

1072. Aah!

1073. Go, go, go, go, go, go!

1074. Slow down!

1075. Ah, fuck!

1076. Aaaah!

1077. I got one. I got one!

1078. I saw his knee explode!

1079. Fuck! Mark-nineteen's down!

1080. Agh! Aah!

1081. Aaah!

1082. Good! Go!

1083. Is Hasser good?

1084. Go, go, go!

1085. All Hitman Victors, radio check.

1086. Attention Two-One Alpha.

1087. Up one twenty and over.

1088. Two-One Bravo was up 700 and up.

1089. Hitman Two, this is Two-Two.

1090. Up 200 and up.

1091. This is Hitman Two-Three.

1092. Up 300 and up.

1093. We got fuckin' lit up.

1094. All Hitman Two Victors.

1095. This is Hitman Two. Roger.

1096. Man!

1097. Everybody is okay, right?

1098. Yes.

1099. Yeah. Yeah.

1100. Hey, I fucking got one.

1101. You all right?

1102. Did you see Walt? He tried to kill himself!

1103. Thanks to your driving.

1104. That was fuckin' heavy, man.

1105. Fuck yeah, brother.

1106. Who was the casualty in Bravo Three?

1107. It's Darnold, dude. In the arm.

1108. - Nah, Shady. - I was a little busy.

1109. Yo, did you see my man Manimal?

1110. Fucking wall of fire. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah!

1111. He brought that building down.

1112. He saved our asses.

1113. Yes, he did, he did!

1114. Get off me! Get off me!

1115. This shit ain't funny!

1116. It goes a little different, we coulda all got killed today.

1117. Don't pet a burning dog.

1118. We damn sure pet one today, didn't we?

1119. Yep.

1120. Grooming standard!

1121. By first light tomorrow,

1122. I expects all y'all to have been clean shaven.

1123. After what we've just been through?

1124. There's lots can go wrong out here.

1125. Lack of batteries.

1126. Cold chow.

1127. Lack of pussy.

1128. But the one thing these mens can counts on

1129. is the grooming standard.

1130. I believe it always ought to be there for 'em.

1131. Sergeant Major, my company commander informed me last night

1132. that Godfather said the men wouldn't have to shave.

1133. In his infinite wisdom,

1134. the battalion commander never said that.

1135. You best check with your company commander.

1136. Hey, team leaders, I'm gonna need an ammo count when you get a chance.

1137. The one solid piece of information he passed, and he was wrong.

1138. Ferrando believes in the violence of action.

1139. The enemy.

1140. He stared us down in Nasiriyah.

1141. But I wanted to show him today...

1142. some Americans won't back down from a fight.

1143. I could put it in terms of tactics or strategy.

1144. I could quote Boyd.

1145. But the simple way to say it...

1146. is that some people might reasonably fear

1147. these Iraqis running around,

1148. trying to organize ways to kill us.

1149. I don't.

1150. And not because I'm a particularly

1151. courageous individual.

1152. I simply have a bigger fear.

1153. In my darkest hours...

1154. I sometimes fear

1155. that I will do something...

1156. General Mattis won't like.

1157. Gentlemen...

1158. I have no such fears tonight.

1159. Brad.

1160. Brad, get up.

1161. We have a mission.

1162. Search and rescue.

1163. One of the officers went out to take a shit.

1164. Stepped over the berm

1165. and hasn't been heard from since.

1166. An officer.

1167. From H-and-S company.

1168. He's probably just lost in the dark somewhere.

1169. Fuckin' officers'll be the death of us yet.

1170. Rolling Thunder, this is Hitman.

1171. SEAD, over.

1172. Hitman, this is Rolling Thunder.

1173. SEAD, out.

1174. Grid to suppress Mike-Charlie 4-3-5 niner-2-1.

1175. Grid to mark Mike-Charlie 4-7-3 niner-8-niner, over.

1176. Grid to suppress Mike-Charlie

1177. 4-3-5 niner-2-1.

1178. Grid to mark Mike-Charlie 4-7-3 niner-8-niner, out.

1179. SA-6 Gainful, non-standard minus 2

1180. to minus 3-0 plus 3-0 to plus 1.

1181. Mark smoke on the deck, two rounds HEVT, CAS TOT 5-3, over.

1182. SA-6 Gainful, non-standard minus 2

1183. to minus 3-0 then plus 3-0 to plus 1.

1184. Mark smoke on the deck,

1185. two rounds HEVT,

1186. CAS TOT 5-3, over.

1187. OT direction 1600.

1188. Message to observer.

1189. Charlie two rounds,

1190. HE delay in effect, five yards.

1191. Bravo, one round, one gun, smoke on the deck.

1192. SEAD. CAS TOT 5-3, target number Echo-Kilo 3-0-0-niner, over.

1193. MTO, Charlie, two rounds,

1194. HE delay, five guns, bravo,

1195. one round, one gun,

1196. smoke on the deck.

1197. SEAD. CAS TOT 5-3.

1198. Out.

1199. Tourman, this is Hitman.

1200. Standby for avail flying information.

1201. Tourman, standing by.

1202. TOT 5-3, SEAD,

1203. non-standard minus 2 to minus 3-0

1204. then plus 3-0 to plus 1.

1205. Gun target line 0-niner-3.

1206. I'm gonna talk you on.

1207. Tourman copies all.

1208. West of the 7-3 Eastern,

1209. there is a large urban sprawl.

1210. Call contact.

1211. Contact.

1212. Splitting the urban sprawl

1213. in half from the North to the South is an MSR.

1214. Call contact.

1215. Contact.

1216. We're observing everything

1217. to the west of that MSR.

1218. Can you see the palm grove in the northwest quadrant?

1219. Call contact.

1220. Tourman. I see two prominent palm groves,

1221. not sure which one you're calling.

1222. Okay, okay.

1223. Do you contact the dump truck heading north in the quadrant?

1224. Tourman, contact the dump truck.

1225. In about a minute,

1226. that technical will pass through the palm grove.

1227. There's two-story structure. That's your target.

1228. Call contact.

1229. Tourman, contact.

1230. Tourman 1-2 off safe, one away.