You made us feel like we were there with you.

Beautiful writing, beautiful story.

Thank you.

Bombs and missiles don't arm and fire themselves.

They don't maintain themselves. That takes a long line of grunts putting in the never ending duty 'day'.

My late husband, retired munition maint tech, told me that in Nam he put in fourteen hours, a day in the long line just prepping and getting the gobangs out to the flight line. Then another bunch of grunts had to load and arm them ... very, very carefully. That was in his spare time; otherwise he spent quality time making sure those bad boys were safely asleep until they didn't have to be.

Infantry is known as the Queen of Battle. Fair enough, but logistics is the engine of battle and people are its fuel. If there isn't enough fuel to ensure Her Majesty has her bling, she's got nothing.

Iago

BLT, but I wouldn't turn down any of them. n/t

There's no depth in hell deep enough ...

for a noncom and a commander who would abandoned one of their own on a battle field. If this is the norm in the Russian army, then they're worse than mercs; they're reavers.

Difficult choice, but if I have pick just one ... LOTR

Putin handed military analysts around the world intell gold.

Old play books are being shredded and new ones written. They'll be filed under A Big Ole List of Fuck Ups You Do Not Want to Make.

Seems to be a pattern

Barracks legend: One dark and stormy night some of the boys, either ammo or civil engineers, got lit and decided it would be shits and grins to streak the WAF barracks. They talked the omega male of the pack into doing the deed. Pack took Buck Naked to the barracks and turned him loose. He got through about half of the first floor before Charlie's Angels showed up and trapped him in an utility closet. Armed with bunk stackers and ball bats Angels informed him he might score a medical discharge. Fortunately for Buck cooler heads prevailed and SPs removed him from harm's way. Rumor had it that he left the fly force and joined a strict monastery.

80% of human activity can be summed up by "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

In the Chickenhawk Corps, it's Captain Corporal and Lieutenant Private.

"With her fancy shaved arm pits, Marjorie brought a certain air of sophistication to the dog fights."

Thanks ItsjustMe.

Air support n/t