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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