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“Flashbang out!” he shouts. Flashbang grenades are not very effective against troopers in modern battle armor. The noise from the explosion gets filtered out by our helmet-mounted earphones, and the visors of our helmets automatically shield us from the flash. To troops without modern gear, however, a flashbang explosion is like looking into a nuclear detonation while getting ice picks rammed into the eardrums.
The CSM wears a lot of stripes, and there are a lot of colorful ribbons on his Class A shirt. When he says “jump,” the entire battalion is usually in midair before asking for an altitude parameter.
The missile hit twenty feet below the window with the heavy machine gun, but the bunker-buster warhead is rather forgiving of aiming errors.
this is the military, and everything has to have its proper procedure and ritual, like a kabuki theater with uniforms. There are the right gestures, phrases, and movements to be observed, and everybody plays along because that’s just the way it’s done.
