Generation Kill HBO, Sun. July 13, 9 p.m. Production: Filmed in Africa by Company Pictures and Blown Deadline Prods. Executive producers, David Simon, Ed Burns, George Faber, Charles ...

Before the beloved MTVR, the Marine Corps moved on a fleet of M35 trucks. (Courtesy photo) If you watch closely, you can spot the occasional M35 cargo truck in “Generation Kill.” ...

What the channel’s subscribers will make of the compelling mini-series “Generation Kill” (8 p.m. Sunday, HBO), an intense chronicle of the opening days of the Iraq war, is anyone’s guess.

“Generation Kill” featured some of the actual Marines from 1st Recon. Three former 1st Reconnaissance Marines who participated in the invasion of Iraq worked on the show.

9 p.m. Sundays on HBO. There's a lot of trust that viewers must place in the hands of David Simon and Ed Burns as the two writer-producers turn the gritty, tip-of-the-spear Iraq invasion book ...