Evan Wright on Generation Kill
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Kocher talks about Captain America and Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill.
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Eric Kocher:

Staff Sergeant Eric Kocher is one of the men portrayed in Evan Wright's Generation Kill. A U.S. Marine and member of the First Reconnaissance Battalion has received two purple Heart and a Bronze star, earned during his tour in Afghanistan and four tours of Iraq.
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TRANSCRIPT:

Question: What was it like having Evan Wright embedded with you?

Eric Kocher: Oh, with Evan. You know, when he first stepped in... it’s funny. Brad Colbert was my team leader in Afghanistan. He had a very strict policy not to talk to the reporters, not to interact with them or anything because they’re always going to spin shit and plus there’s a lot of stuff that we have that is somewhat confidential that doesn’t need to be going out to the media.

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