There’s one in every bunch. They jokester who lines up the mood at the right time. He’s a little older than others, and a little more confident, simply because he’s a little older. And maybe a little smarter. But nobody…
An Unfit Death
It’s been said that the battle field is the most honest place on earth. I can truly attest to that. I’ve visited there a few times. I’ve even made a friend there. An honest to goodness true friend. I’ve seen…
Long Hair, Short Hair
We’re not soldiers, really. But we do soldier stuff, sometimes more, sometimes less. Especially the stuff regular “short-haired” guys can’t do. So we look different, yeah, we have beards, long hair, different gear and toys. We’re here because the regular…
Bug Food
We’ve been out here in the bug infested jungle for three days now. Not moving at all. We’ve been waiting for our objective to enter the view of my scope the whole time. At last, he’s in my crosshairs. We…
Scrubbed
We get paged into the debriefing room. They tell us we’re going on a job. But first, we all have to train for it. Cool, we think. It must be heavy. We start to train, hard. It starts to lag…