作者:
Evan Wright
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埃文·赖特 出版社: G.P. Putnam's Sons 副标题: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War 出版年: 2005-1-1 页数: 368 定价: GBP 15.00 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780425200407
Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the 23 Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears-soldiers raised on hip hop, Internet porn, Marilyn Manson, video games and The Real World , a band of born-again Christi...
Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the 23 Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears-soldiers raised on hip hop, Internet porn, Marilyn Manson, video games and The Real World , a band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts from kung fu movies and Oprah Winfrey. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary, and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional, and moral horrors ahead, the "First Suicide Battalion" would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.
Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality, and camaraderie of a new American war.
Less than half an hour before, Colbert had been talking about stress reactions in combat. In addition to the embarrassing loss of bodily control that 25 percent of all soldiers experience, other symptoms include time dilation, a sense of time slowing down or speeding up; vividness, a starkly heightened awareness of detail; randomthoughts, the mind fixating on unimportant sequences; memory loss; and, of course, your basic feelings of sheer terror.
The look on Colbert’s face is almost serene.
I study Person’s face for signs of panic, fear or death. My worry is he’ll get shot or freak out and we’ll be stuck on this street. But Person seems fine. He’s slouched over the wheel, looking through the windshield, an almost blank expression on his face. The only thing different about him is he’s not... (查看原文)
Fick pokeshis head in the window, grinning. “Present for you.” He passes in a small water bottle, filled with about two inches of amber fluid. “LSA,” he says.
“I scammed it off some guys in RCT-1.”
“Sir, not to get homoerotic about this,” Colbert says. “But I couldkiss you.” (查看原文)
0 有用 Bosie 2012-11-06 00:27:31
like ripped fuel
0 有用 ARi Haswari 2009-05-28 22:04:25
果然是杀戮的一代。。。。
0 有用 Bosie 2012-11-06 00:27:31
like ripped fuel
0 有用 ARi Haswari 2009-05-28 22:04:25
果然是杀戮的一代。。。。