Posted: 22 Jul 2008 05:45 PM CDT
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Written by Katie O’Malley for Human Events.com
Matthew Vandegrift had the world by the tail. He graduated from high school near Austin, Texas in 1999 where he was an exceptional student and talented athlete. He graduated from Texas A&M a few years later, again with honors. He could have made the most difficult decision he faced the job interviews he would entertain or the new apartment he would find. He could have decided to work on his physical acuity to get himself in peak physical shape for the sheer joy of it, becoming lax when the work got too hard or his interest waned. Read the rest at Human Events.com
U.S. Marine Corps Public Affairs responds to “Generation Kill”
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 05:39 PM CDT
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.
Semper Fidelis,Major David Romley Director, Community Relations Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps
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