Gunnery Sgt. Mike "Gunny" Wynn

Gunnery Sergeant Mike Wynn is a career Marine NCO attached to First Recon as they roll into Iraq, a steady hand among younger officers finding their footing under fire. He is watchful, plainspoken, and unimpressed by rank when rank isn't backed by competence, more concerned with keeping his Marines alive than with anyone's reputation.

Generation Kill is crowded with big personalities, and Wynn works precisely because he isn't one — Marc Menchaca plays him with a flat, exhausted professionalism that reads louder than shouting. He's the show's quiet register of sanity, the guy whose face tells you exactly how bad a decision is before anyone says a word.'