Youve heard foxhole stories

    That a . . . question . . or a statement

Fuckin statement

Maybe you ought to phrase it as question.

    Youre not familiar

Sinceya asked a question . . . no.

Youre really not familiar

    I am not.

Curious

Not so much.   You never served. Why do you evenwhy should you be allowed to pose a foxhole stor . .

. . Cuz ya don need to serve to ask or state whasah I believe  a human  interest   story

                                                                                                 Im fuckin ecstatic ya know wha a foxhole is

Yeah. I do.

             I watched Combat growing up as a kid.

Theres tha

              Cool  We have a premise

A premise?

Yah

         Say  youre a Ranger a highly trained expensive   soldier

In a foxhole  a pitched battle

Canya imagine tha

I’m a Ranger?

Youre a Ranger

    Cool.

In the heat of battle a guy wearing your colours throws himself bodily into your foxhole

                                                                                             You dug it   Its yours

Yeah.

Battle dies down a bit Maybe reloadingmaybe support backups coming  The cavalry

                                                                                             The other side

The other side?

Your enemies

    Of course my enemies.

Good  Still in your foxhole

                             Your honed sense is is tha everythings gonna go to shit

During the lull you learn tha this guy who scrambled into your foxhole is a National Guard member  From Iowa

Iowa?

Yah   Iowa

                Military motto  You familiar

Maybe.

           What’s the motto?

he bypassed the fuckin sigh Ya don leave your buddies behind

That’s admirable.

Tha coud be a drag

his face screwedup

                         How do you mean?

I think you understand something being a drag

    Think

                Your last wife

Jesus Christ man.

We on the same page

    My last wife.  That’s horribl . .

. . Youre in a foxhole tha likely will be overrun by your mortal enemy

                                                                       Take no prisoners kinda shit by your mortal enemy

We on the same page

Yeah.  Pretty fuckin grim situation asshole.

Yah

      Whadaya do

What do you mean . . . what do I do?

Youre a Ranger

                   Hes a drag on you

Whereya going with this?

Im the Ranger

                I whack the drag to improve my chances

Remember  Cornfed from Iowa

                                      National Guard

That’s cruel.

Thas fair

            Id rather call it smart  Efficient

Improve my fuckin chances of eluding my mortal fuckin enemies

                                                                         NOW

Really?  There’s a NOW to this?

There is

Youre in your foxhole ya hear someone approaching during the lull

    Alright.

A guys scrambling towards you

Alright.

    Hes a civvy

What’s a civvy?

Civilian  Untrained

    Alright.

Im the Ranger

                I waste him even before he gets to my foxhole

You see theah spectrum   I just laid out for you

 

    Tell me my analysis is wrong

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