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You don’t realize how powerful water is until you’re in it and it’s having its way with you.
Anything that doesn’t kill you gives you a grim sense of humor,
LZ
DZ paratroopers drop onto a drop zone, Helicopters land on a landing zone.
And the difference between me and the dead demon on the floor was that I was me. And that he was dead.
Evil always seems to find a way to become an idol that the degenerate must worship.”
Explosives in the water are the fastest way to end a threat within that terrain medium.
“Your feet are gear and they’re more important than whatever you got to stack skulls with, Ranger,”
“Take care of your gear so it can take care of you.
“Every day that ends in ‘y’ is leg day in the Rangers, Private.”
“If you get caught, kill everything in sight until you’re not caught anymore.
But you’re not lost, you’re just getting acquainted with the neighborhood.
“Bros don’t let bros stay wrong. You’re running this, Ranger. You discover you’re not on the right bearing, the rest of your crew, me pretty much, depends on you owning your mistake and fixing it real quick like so we’re all not lost out here with stabby elves. We all make mistakes. No sin there. The sin is continuing to live in that mistake outta fear of being told you’re dead wrong. Book of Joe, brother. Let’s move.”
“You don’t ever get to choose the battle, bro. Best you can do is pick the spot for the graves,”
“The true believer, Talk, he’s training every day and every night with little food, sometimes no water in conditions we would consider extremely harsh. The only thing he cares about is his weapon. It’s the only thing he keeps clean. It’s the only thing he loves. It’s the only thing that’s ever loved him back. He doesn’t work out. His ruck weighs a ton and he’s used to it because it goes everywhere he goes and does everything he does. He never stops because he believes, so fatigue and sleep mean nothing to him. He don’t care how hard it is and he knows either he dies… or you do.
high-ex,
This is getting annoying. We don’t say “high-ex” in the Army. We just say the letters HE for high explosive.
You figuring out limits were just a thing in your head. A thing that meant nothing if you decided it was gonna be that way.
Recognizing that you’ve arrived at the point you’ve been navigating toward is a critical element to successful land nav.
G19
It was an M18 earlier.
Glocks, the M18 is the military version,
This is wrong, the M18 is not a Glock 19, but a Sig Sauer P320 with a 3” barrel. The Marines adopted this as their standard sidearm while the Army adopted the 4” barreled M17.
“Run like you just drank all the devil’s beer and he just pulled into the driveway!”
“The only thing in life you should fear, Talker, is mediocrity. The only thing.”
I had no idea what a stargate was.
He referenced Stargate when mentioned the QST gate for the first time in Book 1.
Regardless of that damn tab.” He pointed to the one on his right shoulder.
Left shoulder.
“Grenade out!”
The correct phrase here is “Frag out!” The enemy throws grenades, friendliest throw frags. If you hear grenade when under fire you automatically seek cover. Which can break momentum if the grenade is actually outgoing.
M230
Little birds are equipped with M134 Miniguns. The M230 is mounted on the Apache
