Generation Kill

Marines prepare to invade Iraq at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While the soldiers wait to receive their orders, they learn a Rolling Stone columnist will be embedded with them.

Bravo is told to consider any Iraqi carrying a weapon hostile and head north towards Nasiriyah, where Alpha Company is skirmishing at a bridge outside the city. Ferrando and the squad cross the Euphrates the next night and later go north to Mesopotamia - the `Cradle of Civilization' - but they are behind other companies because of a wrong turn.

Having survived its first trial by fire, Bravo Company awaits its next reconnaissance mission. Whilst scoping out a roadside firefight, they watch in shock as a regimental combat team arrives with guns blazing, and look on as the hamlet is obliterated. Encino Man requests an artillery strike on a phantom RPG team and Fick tries to take control of a dangerous situation.

After capturing an Iraqi airstrip, the First Recon are ahead of the other American and Coalition troops, which gives them time to regroup.

First Recon are ordered to cross a bridge, which gives them their first chance to use Iraqi citizens. However, as First Recon get closer to the bridge, they are ambushed.

First Recon get their next mission, which is to help escort the Iraqi civilians leaving Baghdad from a nearby highway. While trying to help them flee, the men see the humanity in the Iraqi civilians.