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“You saw Minot coming in. There’s nothing here for miles except used car dealers and chain restaurants. And cold. They call this base ‘the Frozen Hell.’”
“Why Not Minot?” “Freezin’s The Reason.”
went against everything they had been trained to do as Air Force airmen in general and Personnel Reliability Program-cleared personnel in particular.
Aahh, good ol’ PRP.
the Fort Dukakis
OBJECTIVE WHATABURGER,
those reaching three-star level rarely do so by taking unnecessary risks,
Kelly Turnbull had grown up in Southern California and had zero interest in the Lone Star State. But he’d been there a few hours and was already enjoying it.
reassembling the pistol. That took 35 seconds,
A Glock, Beretta, HK, or SIG reassembles much quicker than a 1911. Jus’ sayin’.
“And Martin Rios-Parkinson, a UCLA assistant professor of oppression studies or some such nonsense. A real piece of work. He formed the original LA People’s Militia and now walks around trying to look like Che.
Fucla!!
“I always root against West Point,” said Turnbull, who was commissioned through the Officer Candidate School
HOOAH! You tell those ring-knockers, Kelly!
The judge told me, ‘Son, you can wear green or you can wear orange,’ and I figured wearing green at least I had a shot at getting it on with girls, so here I am. Cav to the bone. Garry Owen!”
Hooah!
Turnbull recognized the cavalry cry, taken from the name of an Irish tune that George Custer adopted for his ill-fated Seventh Cavalry and which all American cavalry units subsequently embraced,
Slaínte! Erin Go Bragh!
“American troops love dogs,” Turnbull said. “Not me, though. Never got the appeal.”
Dude, WTF, over?
“You’re definitely not a SEAL. We’ve been talking for almost two minutes and you haven’t mentioned that you’re a SEAL yet.”
Heh heh.
Mary Jane Rottencrotch
Haha, nice “Full Metal Jacket” reference!
Foghat concert t-shirt
Old-school guitar rock, NICE!!
Volley fire would serve three purposes – control the ammo, make sure the people they hit had enough time to fall so they weren’t wasting bullets on people they had already shot, and break the enemy’s morale when they watched their pals die in waves in front of them.
a redhead who looked like the son of Carrot Top
Gee, whatever became of that guy anyway?
“It was no hit on you, LT. It’s just….” “The troops come before my ego, sir. You were the right guy at the right time.”
Good humility, especially for a ring-knocker!
“Americans fighting Americans. I had a great-great-great grandfather in the 54th Massachusetts.
Cue the movie “Glory.”
A Smith & Wesson .38 revolver hung in a holster to his side, and Rios-Parkinson still walked with a limp after having accidentally shot off the tip of his little toe cleaning it
Haha, dumbass bRuin beeyotch!
Stalin was an endless cornucopia of tactics, techniques, and procedures for the likes of Martin Rios-Parkinson
cheap Kalashnikov knockoffs helpfully smuggled into the Port of LA by Chinese intelligence inside CONEXs that were supposed to contain coffee mugs and sweat shirts destined for Walmart.
CBP LA/LB memories…
Carper’s pronouns were he/him, at least for now. He had famously accused the Air Force of systemic racism in a blistering congressional hearing overseen by Ted Lieu and had been immediately offered a full professorship at the UCLA School of Law.
Great, another Fucla bRuin punk.
“You’ve done this before, sir. How does it feel to kill another human being?”
“I don’t know,” Turnbull said. “I’ve only ever killed jihadis and communists.”
Haha, ZING!!! Priceless!!
“Reminds me of Zulu,” the squad leader said. “You know, Rorke’s Drift? You ever see that, sir?” “Of course. I identify as male,” Turnbull replied. “Except there’s a big difference. The Zulus were proud, tough, and brave warriors, and these are criminal assholes.”
Great movie! Not to mention Michael Caine’s cinematic debut. Cue “Men of Harlech”…
It amused Turnbull that the class war had finally come and it was the damn Marxists who rigorously observed class distinctions. In the dictatorship of the proletariat, it was the proles who were getting dicked.
Do as we say, not as we do, such typical socialists.
“We could sing,” Sullivan replied, as if the answer were obvious. “Men of Harlech would work.” “Welshmen will not yield,” Turnbull muttered.
Right-o, just like I was saying a 3 pages earlier!
“Time to get our Joshua Chamberlain on,” Turnbull told the lieutenant. “Bayonets!” boomed Faith’s deep bass voice. “Fix bayonets!”
Fuck yeah!!
their reptile brains took over.
Even the new guy was trying to pull his blade out of the shoulder of a screaming man who was waving his fists impotently at the trooper.
Alright, way to go, FNG!!
The People’s Militia would come, and a kinder person would have prayed for them. Turnbull was not a kinder person. They would get what they deserved.
AMEN!!!
“We were preparing to storm Austin but we gave the liberals a chance to leave.”
Suck it, Longhorns!!
“So, basically a herd of pumpkin-infused IPA drinkers with skinny jeans and not much upper body strength is heading north?” “You’ve never seen so many Priuses packed with luggage,” Deeds said.
Haha, paging Brooks W. Wilson!
“Not that fighting the UN would bum me out. Other Americans, not a good thing. The United Nations, count me in.”
And Ted Hiroshi is in Miami trying to keep the Cubans there from tossing any more communists out of helicopters into the Caribbean.”
Canada, which was undergoing its own Crisis, if in a much more restrained and polite form. The rupture was even more urban versus rural than in the States, and the rural areas they drove through revealed many fewer armed groups than they had seen in the States. It was a very Canadian rebellion. One crowd of protesters was carrying signs reading “Please Respect Our Rights.” They were handing the police watching the gathering cups of coffee.
Take off, you hosers, eh!
“Operation Anaconda
??? Plagiarising the 2002 Afghanistan op, are you??
Colt Python
a Baptist church with a sign out front that read: “He that hath no sword, let him sell his cloak, and buy one – Luke 22:36”
“Aren’t reporters supposed to be objective?” Turnbull said. “Oh, well that rule, that’s done and gone,” she laughed. “They took that idea out and buried its body in the woods.”
“Well, if that’s how you feel, don’t read through Adam Schiff’s browser history. Man, that guy’s not right.”
“Um, Beto is surfing an online dating website called ‘HotFurryFriends.com,’”
Bestial Beto, heh heh.
“I was just in the can and it smelled like death and then Eric Swalwell comes walking out of a stall,” Casey Warner said. “Nasty.”
“Speaking of noxious gases, that’s Eric Swalwell.
dozen large white “fest tents” – massive commercial tents the Army contracted for. They got their name during the Army’s 70 years in Germany, where such tents were often used to hold beer-fueled volksfests in the spring and fall.
“Combat beats being up close and personal with Jerry Nadler, especially after he eats chili.”
His blocky, black, Czech-made CZ Scorpion EVO 3 A1 submachine
Successor to the old Vz-61 Skorpion?
Answer from Wikipedia: “The EVO 3 designation denotes that the firearm is a third generation of CZ's line of small submachine guns started by the Škorpion vz. 61, which is mechanically unrelated.”
“I’m going to need to get paid.” “Of course. After all, we’re not communists.”
Heh heh, nice “Godfather”/Don Barzini reference!
“It’s like a James Bond villain who spills the whole plan to him,” Casey said. “I mean, before they made Bond sensitive. I hate the new Bond.”
