Generation Kill: Lt. Col. Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando (HBO)

[dougpowers2]

Haha, I love seeing all of these comments saying how bad of a commander Godfather was, when their only leadership experience is barking orders over their mics in Call of Duty; compared to an experienced, Force Recon LtCol. in the Marines, seriously just shut up you 14 year old morons.

[TanWeiHou]

Throat cancer

[heyysimone]

im re-reading the book. its fuckin good

[tallheaven1]

You know he's a good actor when he can play someone with throat cancer -_-

[Wtfamisupposedtosay]

I liked Lt. Col Stephen :P

[MrStreetfighterXD]

"Sir, that's not a recon mission. That's an assault."

*puts on sunglasses*

"Semantics."

YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH

[booksbenji]

You have to know yr poop 2B a LT. COL!!!

[TheZacdes]

This guy is a warloving, murdering braindead fucked up wanker!!!

[TerminallyILLMusic]

I am not a trained soldier nor do i know about tactics, but from what it seems, he always gave atleast 3 or more very strong reasons for his actions. He appears to of thought each of his orders through thouroughly

[mjccmc82]

I was part of 3/4 battalion in the marines when we invaded Iraq March 21, 2003

semper fi

[TheZacdes]

@mjccmc82That was first time ay, fair enough, but not the second!!!

[mjccmc82]

@TheZacdes I went to Iraq twice- - invasion in 03 and again in 04

[srithikdatta]

@JesusChristisMuslim thats the us marine corps, nice try tho.

[bigbeefyd]

I served with the REAL Stephen Ferrando when he was a 2nd Lieutenant. I was his radio operator in Alpha Co. 1/9, 3rd Platoon, his first unit command. To this day I can say that I would have followed him into the gates of Hell. Best leader and one of the best men I have ever known. This story was a hatchet job.

[TheZacdes]

@bigbeefyd CRAP, you had no reason to be there the second time, there were no WMD"s and your almighty gov. knew it!!!

[AccordGTR]

The US spends on its military more than the Top 15 countries in the World!

(SIPRI) almost $1.7 trillion total spent on defense in 2010.

USA $700B, 42% of total, representing 4.8% of GDP.

2nd place China only spent $119B, just 7.3% of total, only 2.1% of GDP

then UK, France, Russia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, India. Italy round out the Top 10.

[LeonBarmiteous]

Jesus Christ...have ANY of you seen the actual Godfather? You know, the movie?

That's why he got that nickname, because the Don in the Godfather spoke that way.

[ipeze]

Whaaaaa... you mean that wasn't his real voice???

[Honmatres]

@ipeze Lol thought the same thing! Damn what a let down - makes it so farken cliche, what a cool voice he put on though

[kblargh]

was he cured?

[Ahamster1]

Looks like Liam Neeson's protege

[Javelin09]

1:51 The eyes of Godfather are upon you.

[GrantRules174]

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[CptSmokeAlot]

I had two feelings on Ferrando I loved him and hated him for bein a prick.

[Zamolxes77]

One of my favorite characters from the show. Yes, he had his ups and downs, but for me what really redeemed him was the last line he spoke to the reporter: "So what happens to my command if I respond to every complaint made ?"

[OIF0321]

Yeah I'm sure Ferrando loved us... That's fucking bullshit. Multiple times he tried to kill us...

[planethelgan]

To me, this series showed me, how "politicized" even the marines can be. It shows inept marine officers screwing up ( both captain amarica and encino man). Who are both captains cause daddy was some hot shot general. And shows how much of a kiss ass godfather was. Who just wanted to earn his full bird by calling in fucked up air support to get "good effect on target". Just like everything else on this earth. Politics is politics.

[dizzyhizzylizzle]

show was awesome, great acting.

yay, im a Lt. Col. in Halo Reach

[gabrive3]

I wonder for how long he stayed like this after recording :P

[quillo31]

i wanna see generation kill again foreal...Generetion Kill is one of the best thing that i ever see...Real Talk...when they going to put it again?

[CptSmokeAlot]

@quillo31 Send me a message and I'll send you to a place you can download each episode for FREE no gay ass surveys or shit like that. I'll be lookin out.

[GuitorialVideos]

Can SOMEONE PLEASE tell me what song they play at the very beginning with the guitar? I really love that intro but can't find it :(

[Waltham1892]

The role of a mid-level officer in combat arms, in any branch, is to be a manager of violence.

These guys are not touchy-feely. You never love them. If you listen to them you just might win the war and get out alive...

[billybluesrock]

Excellent

[mikepyro713]

just curious, I just started the show but was there a reason for why the actor spoke like that with a loud hoarse whisper? haven't read the book either so I'm not sure and i'd appreciate it.

[archivepie]

@mikepyro713 Did you even watch this video? There's a scene in there that explains he had throat cancer.

[mikepyro713]

@archivepie no i didn't, as I didn't want to spoil the show. I was just coming on here to see if someone could give me an answer to my question

[BlistElk]

If I hear Ferrando refer to himself in the third person one more time I'm going back in time to the real invasion and killing him.

[deadwoodeye]

new deadwood channel

[kenflo7]

you a smoker??? nahh... just lucky i guess!! what a hardass MF!

[dskeetgt]

I talked to this guy and he is awesome. He is as nice as can be and was my favorite character of the whole show.

[Arvatos]

@endlives

More like thanks to any and everything that kills us: alcohol, drug, accidents, natural disasters... and of course, war. But I appreciate war in the course that it promotes the technological advancements, and cultural fusion of civilizations more than population control. And a good general will promotes those advancements by tactics and implications, applications. It takes a right mind to understood warfare and all that accompany with it. I'm sure general "Godfather" is one of them.

[artacania]

3 words .. tempo tempo tempo... id say GET THERE NOW!!

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@artacania That's exactly why GodFather was a dumbass. He rushed the war way too much, and skipped a lot of guys that could have posed a danger to marines behind first recon. Godfather was a terrible Bat Com.

[bott14]

"If you bump into an Iraqi who wants to fight, you will fucking kick his ass."

best line in the entire series :-)

[MaxFlared]

@endlives you have to admit if there was no war everyone would be in fodd desperation starvation and polution. in other words slow death. with wars we reduce population and let the few have a good live with plenty of food while the soldiers are having fun in the battlefield. i say its a win win situation. now im being sarcastic dont hate

[pmf180]

@endlives lol not really, this war alone only like 100000 people die, not much of a difference

[moltomoltomoltobene]

I thought that voice in GK was his original voice!!

[aragorn1780]

lol, I have laryngitis right now and I sound exactly like Godfather, xD

[1337Egghuvud]

Wow! He doesn't sound like that. Must've hurt like hell to talk like that all the time

[dqkjr]

He's my uncle.

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@dqkjr Yeah, ok....

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@dqkjr Tell him I said he's an idiot for rushing shit too much then.

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@dqkjr And, if you're for real, post a video of you with him, so I know you're not full of shit.

[KnoxBrz]

its funny because he really looks like a marine

[Orthrus]

@KnoxBrz

Even more funny, he really looks like a General.

[Squadomatick]

@Orthrus He's not a General he's a Lieutenant Colonel

[Orthrus]

@Squadomatick

That's just the point.

[tpbman121]

is godfather based off of Colonel Sellers? does anyone know?

[kempaku982]

@tpbman121 Godfather was based off a USMC LT Colonel called Stephen Ferrando, nicknamed "Godfather"

[CplPozoUSMC]

Col Ferrando is an outstanding Commander even when he left 1st Recon Bn and was assigned as Commanding Officer of MP Co in Camp Pendleton he even signed my certificate of appreciation still an honor the guy is a bad ass

[AMPelican]

@endlives killing a few thousand people does not solve overpopulation... and even if it did, overpopulation should be solved ethically, not by killing. next time we have to cut down our population i'll put a gun to your head. see how much you like it.

[bekhele]

@AMPelican

it certainly doesn't.

if you know something about demographic numbers... in history after a big war ,horrible event(plague etc) it appears to be mankind value life suddenly much much more and start fornicating with a babyboom as a result, wich numbers in time , wil lcompensate for the lost lives in the previous generation.

you can do your research, after both world wars,tsunami and 9/11 babybooms occured

[moogamax]

After reading Evan Wright's book and watching the film, I have to say, I admire Lt. Col. Ferrando. He seems to be a very brainy guy with a strong conscience. If he had any weakness, it was in his lack of a bedside manner. In other words, he was the Pope Benedict of infantry officers.

[joeratti]

@moogamax you should read a little about general mattis. that guy is pretty awesoome

[moogamax]

@joeratti I know he's been called "Warrior Monk" because he reads a lot of philosophy. Any good bios written yet?

[oogabooga341]

@endlives ... that's just morbid

[tehBLAX]

@endlives um lol?

[dUcKplE]

even as he speaks now, he still has a lil of that husky voice.

[goodnightChesty1775]

i got to work with some guys from the First Recon Bt. when i was at Devil Pups, they where some badass SOBs we got to work with the rubber boats, and run this badass freaking muddy ass water filled obstacle course thing it was awsome.

[HateMachine103190]

I think Lt. Colonel Ferrando got kind of a bad rap given how he was portrayed, but I think he did a damn good job with what he had to work with. His unit was operating way outside of it's SOP with very little training assaulting with Humvees, and he was being pushed to move very fast through hostile territory. Despite all this, his battalion achieved their opjectives with only 7 casualties and no fatalities. If that wasn't verified, I'd call it propaganda. Godfather knew his shit.

[enoxib]

@HateMachine103190 I disagree. I think they tried to show his character in a good light.. I think he was supposed to be someone who his men would follow into hell so he didn't always have time to be mr nice guy but he needed to do so to inspire them. Similarly with the gunnery sgt? who always shouted at everyone about grooming standards. He clearly only does it to encourage solidarity amongst them and isn't really the asshole people think he is at the beginning.

[moogamax]

@HateMachine103190 That's true. The film did him justice. When it showed him watching, terrified, as General Mattis tore Colonel Dowdy a new asshole, it revealed his real motive. It wasn't to become a full colonel; it was not to get sacked.

[TheZacdes]

@HateMachine103190 Yes, i admit, he is a good officer, but.....

[1993heavenshallburn]

"naa, throat cancer". "do you smoke?" "naa. just lucky, i guess"

[EliFerrando]

en español porfavor.... yo entender solo un poco

[caioscorpion]

Best Smile in the World : 0:40

[TangFiend]

I would follow him. 

-Former Enlisted

[ForceRecon198]

@endlives If it weren't for war we wouldn't have Generation Kill. :D

[Chowkin9]

@ForceRecon198 thats a shitty shelfish thing to say.

[Anubie]

Film missed you the first words he said "I'm Chance Kelly and I play..."

Great series! One of my fav characters

[4izzleDizzle]

@endlives Also without as much technology without war.

[SangsungMeansToCome]

Could've been a German panzer commander in WW2. "The violence of action is to our advantage." Wouldn't surprise me if that's Guderian speaking there. (Or maybe DeGaulle?)

[oifmarine81]

you a smoker

na. just lucky i guess.

thats a hard core marine

[D34n0Thund3r]

"while we sit here, regimental combat team, nursing our thumbs with our assholes"....classic!

[pepparmostheelder]

@endlives hehe, and, world peace would be great but lets face it, aslong as people got a free will there will ALWAYS be war. Its part of the human nature (I know it sucks to hear but its true :P).

[ZAC2994]

@pepparmostheelder some people need war to feel like they have a place in life. so when u say things like that make sure ur speaking only for ur self and others who are like you. Not everyone is the same...

[cosmicdingo]

He's a good commander, but always be cautious when a man refers to himself in the third person.

[Haubitzer]

That's not a reconaissance mission. That's an assault!

Semantics!

He is such a badass. =D

[FreestylePortLive]

he have a funny voice man XD PLEASE MORE GENERATION KILL EPISODES !

[coppicebrad]

Can i ask, why is your voice that way?

Throat Cancer.

Do you smoke?

No, just lucky i guess.

Class lines!

[Dogmeat1950]

plus the the fact that man, advances faster in timesof war.which is a funny/sad thing lol.

[Mahisse]

Best castin ever. My favourite character.

[yesiamawizardjonny]

@Mahisse My favorite character was Trombley and Ray

[LMIE]

@yesiamawizardjonny Ray is awesome

[asusnemesis]

@LMIE

because Ray is the way!!!

[RoyalDog214]

He was a good commander beside the fact that ordered his unit to secure the Air Field occupied by a bunch of Iraqi armors.

Luckily the Iraqis retreated otherwise there would've been a big massacre and a bunch of dead Marines.

[SnorkyO]

I thought he got a gland removed.

[mikerblais]

this guy is bad@ss in the show. My favorite character.

[killermod0]

its good acting when you have to convincingly speak like you have throat cancer.

[TheJake0fTrades]

@killermod0 He's not a good actor because he can do a funny voice, he's a good actor because he IS Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando.

[killermod0]

@TheJake0fTrades ....that was a lame comment.

[WiseGuy5674]

The question I wanted asked was how the real players thought about his portrayal of the man.

[frtyuj]

Then get the book.

[rauldelaney8754]

great mini series and I tune in while Im working when i can. tend to just use a blogspot site generationkillonline makes the day go faster for me.

[chanchan84]

As do all men who whisper loudly.

Jack Bauer

[danield123456789]

just lucky i guess. lol

[xmnvbvgzfgvbmghxvbds]

did they really lose the battalion colors? or was that part just fiction?

[frodosaurusrex]

it happened, it threw the men of 1st Recon to a level of pissed off they weren't aware of.

[solder4christ]

unfortunately yes they did

[TheSanityProject]

Haha. It's so weird to hear Chance Kelly's normal speaking voice after watching GK.

[trigga1uk]

whose the guy at 1:36 with godfather?

[Halo4Lyf]

I believe that is his XO, his Executive Officer, a Major.... um, I don't remember.

[AJBinko27]

Major Todd Eckloff. He's played by Benjamin Busch, who was a real Marine Major with one of the RCT's who followed 1st Recon through Iraq

[Nightix]

Was Major Eckloff Major Benelli? Or was Major Benelli never portrayed in the show?

[mcapon2]

He's the BN XO (Executive Officer)

[MISTYTESTON]

instead of talking shit about war.. u should appreciate your rmilitary u dumb ass tlking about overpopulated.....why dont you go end your own life..asshole....I Love my Military My son who gives up his freedom for jerks like u ...........endlives......

[blubbson]

the thought that someone like you has spawned offspring makes me weep

[yonimiller]

Damn, I was sure this guy was a real marine.. GOOD acting.

[SpiderMack89]

So did it seem for me. Wicked, man

[Lordredratson]

"No....just lucky I guess"

lolz

[cosmicdingo]

Gotta watch out for a guy who starts referring to himself in the third person.

[dtmsolid1234]

godfauther!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!

[crazyjuice119]

i prefer his "Godfather" voice

[bj22488]

your stupid and your stats are not correct

[pat2312]

moron, that would mean every couple would have 6 kids.

[CarlMelon]

See it from the bright side. The world is alredy overpopulated

[WestFargoPackerFan]

In Nate's book and in Evan Wright's, he seems like WAYY more of a prick.

[GLASGOWBOY1990]

He has to be one of the coolest characters ever.

[Arnoldnor]

"We are still very much in the game, gentlemen. Very much in the game".

[failtolawl]

i hate his character

[EgyptianPrinceCB]

Lt. Col. Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando

is one scary looking dude...

[puroSLPcabrones]

"Tempo...Tempo...Tempo"

[rageatm4life]

ooh man i though this was a documenttry

[harker999]

is ridgway the former commander of the 82d airborne?

[drpkick82]

yeah he is

[Jas0nP]

at the beginner does he say 'Chance Kelly AND I play...'? weird.

[emperley3]

he is chance kelly, and he is introducing himself

"joe smith, and i play this character"

[NamelessTurtle]

It seems to start after he says "I'm". Nothing weird about this at all.

[Suppressingfire]

Godfather

[jdoernte]

This guy is a jackass. He has a man like captian America under him, and does not ship his retarded ass home. Therefore, he is ALSO retarded. US Marine officers are simply PATHETIC. I always heard from Army men, that Marines are idiots, and never believed it, UNTIL this series came out. Those Army guys were right all along.

[ohwell121]

except colbert

[holub25]

were you in? or do you just base you're opinion off the book/series? anyone you talk to in whatever branch, they will say the others are idiots.

[tastethefreedom]

the retards get there via politics. The only reason cpt. america was there was because he had an uncle or something who was a colonel.

[19devildoc77]

Yeah, let's ship a company C.O. home in the middle of an invasion and bring somebody else in.The military (all branches)are full of idiots. Sometimes you have to deal with them.Join and you might find this out for yourself instead of regurgitating what your friends and HBO tells you.

[alexjamesarsenal]

how does he get is voice like that lol

[Piddus]

Right now I got a pretty bad cold and my vocal bands are f_cked up. And I sound exactly like him :P

So you can always try that :)

Really good show btw.

[SadClownMovies]

the show is certainly not boring. but then those who think it is probably think the same about the wire, the sopranos and deadwood too. no attention span people these days. how can they ever expect to sit through citizen kane if they think this is boring? or once upon a time in the west. i feel sorry for these people with no attention span.

[KingNothing07]

man, thats exactly what I'm thinking about many people...no appreciation for things like that...

[pat442389]

yeah one of the best things about the sopranos for me was just the anticapation of something happening, that was more entertaning then whn someone actually was killed or shot. but yeah people now a days love brainless action movies were people can outrun machine guns and flip cars.

[damaja]

i think this guy's the cop in the new ncaa basketball tournament commercial.

[Dimwooo]

its the battle cry for the us marines

america got it from russia during ww2

[smoky90210]

Hell no they didnt.Its the battle cry of the Continental army during the Revolutionary war.Its the American version of the British "Hazzah!". Now each branch has its own interpretation of the battle cry.

Army-HOOAH!

Marines-HOORAH!

Navy-HOOYAH

Coast Guard-OOAAH!

Air Force-OOYAAH!

All farely similar.

[bigrasta69]

marines-oohrah.

close.

but no cigar.

[devildogintraining]

no its HOORAH, the H is silent.

[walkerdarin2003]

no its not hoorah. it is oohrah. My devil dog in training I am a Marine. Go back to DEP.

[SuperMike82]

Actually, the air force says HUA (heard, understood, acknowleged) - I was in the air force so trust me

[mousehunter311]

correct. i'm in the army now, but was in air force ROTC in college. these jackasses that look stuff up on the internet think they know it all, don't they? haha

[morningtide]

its a moto thing, you know, it gets them pumped up

[Benwell1]

Isnt it Hooorah! that hows they spelt it in the Americas Army online game anyway, its just like a battle shout, to rouse the troops id say.

[melgoofo]

what does Oorah mean??

[Gam3Junkie]

Damn, watching Oz at the moment..

Didnt recognize the reporter as tobias beecher :O

[melgoofo]

i love this show!!!!!

[melgoofo]

i f...n love this show!!!

[Wallyrolla]

Its a hell of a programme, brutal, thought provoking and hard hitting! best programme I've seen in a while!

[Benwell1]

Quoted for truth, best war drama ive seen for over a decade, much better than that hollywood rip off Band of Brothers.

[Zimmerh90]

Imo BoB was a really good mini series and showed very well how the WW2 war was. As for now its two different fight types in WW2 it was close quarter fighting in france and so on. And the BoB team made that pretty good. In Generation kill the figthing is pretty much different as the tactics is to do as much damage as possible without getting hurt that means you have to keep the distance to the insurgents so you can lay accurate fire with scopes as most AK's in the middle east does not have scopes

[Zimmerh90]

These two wars is totally different. WW2 was close quarter figthing and charge with what you got , now its more try to keep as many guys alive as possible. Therefore BoB was what you may call hollywood thingy, but I disagree, they just made the mini series as it was in the WW2. But in the iraq and A-stan wars teh tactics used is completely different in many ways. Generation kill is a good serie and may seem like a less hollywood thing, but I think they both image the two wars very good.

[rphinks]

band of brothers was excellent

[fjhgdfgsdfhsgdsdfgjs]

Can't believe people are saying this programme was boring.

Fucking best thing I've seen in years.

Go and watch We Were Soldiers or something you silly fuckers.

[lexielu315]

i no chance hes tall

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