HBO'S GENERATION KILL. "THE NEW FACE OF AMERICAN WAR"

GENERATION KILL (PREMIERS JULY 13th @ 9 pm) - Follows the Highly trained marines of first Recon battalion through the first 40 days of the Iraq war. The seven-part miniseries portrays the true story of the young marines' experience at the tip of the spear of the American invasion, as they contended with equipment shortages, even evolving Rules Wright' who originally reported the story in a series of articles for Rolling Stone Magazine for which he was embedded with First Recon, The Film aso Benefited greatly from the presence of two of the real-life Marines it depicts that served as consultant - Sgt. Eric Kocher and Cpl. Jeffrey Carisales: a third First Recon Marine, Sgt. Rudy Reyes, appears in the miniseries, portraying himself.