Do you realize the shit that we’ve done here, the people we’ve killed? Back in the civilian world, dawg, if we did this, we would go to prison.
GENERATION KILL | Stay Frosty - 1.06
- We did pet a burning dog.
- In more ways than one. Those Jihadists who attacked us? Isn’t this the exact opposite of what we want to have happen here? It’s all on that guy’s passport. Two weeks ago, he was still a student in Syria. He wasn’t a Jihadi until we came to Iraq.
GENERATION KILL | A Burning Dog - 1.05
Right! ‘Cause we’re going to drive forty klicks off-road, in the dark, to an airfield with Republican Guard on it, by ourselves. And they say that I did too much acid in high school. Christ. The business end of Mattis’s crack pipe must be hot to the fucking touch.
GENERATION KILL | Screwby - 1.03

Rolling through Iraq in open-top Humvees is completely outside of what First Recon does. We might not like it, but the general has asked this battalion to be America’s shock troops. And Godfather can’t tell the general, “We don’t do windows.”
GENERATION KILL | Get Some - 1.01
Personal issues, skipper? Not on my part, sir. I do however have an issue with unprofessional conduct of senior enlisted personnel in this company.
Looks like you won some hearts and minds, sir. And some tongue.