Lush said having Kocher on set, along with fellow First Recon Marines Jeffrey Carisalez and Rudy Reyes, was very helpful.
He's a decorated and experienced soldier, serving four tours in Iraq and one tour in Afghanistan, and earning two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star with 'V' for Valor. It was like cops and robbers times a million.' Generation Kill's key military advisor, Marine Staff Sergeant Eric Kocher, was a member of First Reconnaissance Battalion and was featured in the original Rolling Stone article and book by Evan Wright. It was so surreal we were shooting with blanks. And then the last day we did this siege where we went up into the mountains of Namibia and had this faux attack on an Arab town.
The first week was personal training and knowledge of weapons a crash course on the Marines' boot camp. 'Our military advisor, Eric Kocher, was actually featured in the story and he put us through a two-week boot camp. Lush described the intense preparations all the actors went through to get ready to realistically portray Marines. We recently talked to Lush about filming Generation Kill, playing Xbox 360 in his time off, and his experience on The Black Donnellys.
