Generation Kill!

i keep thinking it looks "old school", most nv devices i read about are the an/pv's and such that mount ahead of a standard optical scope.
is it called a starlight scope or something?
 
Biggest problem with this series is that the source material which it was based on seems very weak. Too weak to tell a decent story, or give a good account of what went on. The episode containing the Battle of Nasiriyah made it seem like a minor event.
 
so far its a heck of a lot better than flashpoint is, and they're the only 2 decent shows on the tube.
i get it on movie central, but it is an hbo presentation.
nothing compares to band of brothers, but based on cast and budget, band of brothers could be grouped as a major motion picture as compared to a mini-series.
 
i would put "over there" and gen kill in the same league.
generation kill seems like it has proportionally more talking than action, but maybe over there was the same, i just haven't seen it for awhile.
and thats probably truer to life, i doubt soldiers are driving around shooting hadji's 24/7, there must be a lot of down time.
both shows are definately better than 95% of the crap they call t.v. shows nowadays:(
but alas, we're getting off topic, so does anyone know what the optic used is?
 
hutchster said:
i can't remember the visual details of the scope, is this close?
http://ww w.imaging1.com/thermal/NVWS4-night-vision-scope.html
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Not quite. I've been looking around and I can't seem to find anything that quite fits the one in the show. Of course I can find similar but tube body, position of knobs, etc are always different.
 
FPembleton said:
Biggest problem with this series is that the source material which it was based on seems very weak. Too weak to tell a decent story, or give a good account of what went on. The episode containing the Battle of Nasiriyah made it seem like a minor event.
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When you're one Marine Infantry Company in a Brigade level action you see what you see, you do what you're told. The only people who had a real grasp of the true scope of the fight were the staff guys at BHQ. When we hear the casualty rates, we have to realize that is the Brigade total, not the Company total. The fog of war still exists. Most every "organized" battle has been a series of pockets of localized intense action since the advent of mobile warfare. From what I can tell, Generation Kill is eerily accurate, even the radio calls during closing credits. Really guys, listen to the radio calls at the end, sometimes I swear they are replaying recorded messages. My guess is whoever wrote this show has been there.
 
Maple Leaf Pilgrim said:
When you're one Marine Infantry Company in a Brigade level action you see what you see, you do what you're told. The only people who had a real grasp of the true scope of the fight were the staff guys at BHQ. When we hear the casualty rates, we have to realize that is the Brigade total, not the Company total. The fog of war still exists. Most every "organized" battle has been a series of pockets of localized intense action since the advent of mobile warfare. From what I can tell, Generation Kill is eerily accurate, even the radio calls during closing credits. Really guys, listen to the radio calls at the end, sometimes I swear they are replaying recorded messages. My guess is whoever wrote this show has been there.
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The guy who wrote it was there, he's sitting in the back of the humvee...

and I think the radio chatter at the beginning and end was actually recorded during the war.
 
Do yourself a favour ....read the book. It was written by the "reporter" in the back seat. The series is good but the book offers alot more depth to the whole story.
 
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