The Real Marine Behind Generation Kill | Brad Colbert

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Hey, everyone. Welcome to The Team House. I'm Jack Murphy here with our guest in studio today, Brad Colbert. Brad is a retired Marine, served in Force Recon.
He did a stint with the Royal Marines.

**Brad Colbert** (1:28)
Did.

**Jack Murphy** (1:28)
And numerous other things we'll talk about. Your platoon, of course, was the inspiration for the book and subsequent television show, Generation Kill.
And you have a podcast called the Carry On Podcast.

**Brad Colbert** (1:42)
I do, yeah.

**Jack Murphy** (1:42)
Yeah. Well, just right off the bat, you want to tell people what that podcast is, where they can find it.

**Brad Colbert** (1:48)
Yeah. Carry On Podcast is available, either video through YouTube or whatever platform they use to consume audio podcasts, Spotify or Apple or iHeart. And we do a couple of things in the show. We talk to guests, authors, policymakers discussing current events, treatments for veterans' health. We talk about some fun equipment things. And we also look for reconnections with Generation Kill cast members to sort of give people aware they now look. And maybe some stories that weren't originally portrayed in the book or the TV series.

**Jack Murphy** (2:27)
So you try to interview the Marines you served with in the platoon. And do you try to interview the actors also that portrayed them?

**Brad Colbert** (2:34)
We haven't actually had any of the actors yet, but I certainly wouldn't put it past them.
I do keep in somewhat contact with the individual that portrayed me, like Scarsgard, so maybe I can ask him if he wants to come on the show. All right, cool. Pretty cool.

**Jack Murphy** (2:48)
We'll get deeper into all of that in a bit. But if we're to start at the top, you know, I always ask people about their origin story. Tell us a little bit about like how you grew up and what was that path that took you towards military service?

**Brad Colbert** (3:01)
Well, I had a pretty rough childhood, not because of my parents. I was a pretty shitty kid.
And I think my parents would probably agree with that. If I was to ask them, they may couch it a little differently. But I was a difficult child. I was fiercely independent. I was probably smarter than my own good for my own good. And I got in trouble a lot. In fact, I was expelled from every school that I ever went to. I was expelled from elementary school, which is pretty hard to do, by the way. Junior high, I was expelled from high school. I ended up finishing school at a military academy that was in Missouri.
All that to say that I was very rebellious, and I did not handle groups well, and I wanted to give myself a challenge. I wanted to find a place where I could fit in. I wanted to, I originally wanted to be, and I've told this story before, but I wanted to be an astronaut. And in order to be an astronaut, I'll short circuit the story. Most astronauts were pilots. Pilots come from the military. Okay, so I have to be an aviator. Well, what do I want to fly? I want to fly F-18, so that's Navy or Marine Corps. The Navy has shitty uniforms. Sorry, guys.
Marines. Like, that's it. And this is, you know, 10, 11 years old. That's my path.
And I just didn't have the personal discipline to stay in college. I tried it for a little while after high school and just said, F it, I'm just going to enlist. So once...