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radcolbert:

“There are several more gas and missile alerts throughout the afternoon. Between them the Marines congregate under the shade of their Humvee cammie nets, recleaning all their weapons, linking individual machine-gun rounds into belts and talking. Sitting in little clumps, pasing the weapons and gear back and forth while doing intricate finger work, it almost looks like a ladies’ sewing circle. No one talks much about the invasion they are supposed to launch in a few hours. If anything, their focus on routine humor and bullshitting is almost more determined than ever in the face of the impending assault.”

Nate’s 10 Step Plan to Ruin Brad’s Life

astreetsussserenade:

(According to Brad)

  1. Exist
  2. Look like that
  3. Effectively manage Ray
  4. Bite his lip far more often than can possibly be necessary
  5. Curse with such beautiful precision
  6. Unerringly pick the right battles
  7. Genuinely seem to believe it when he tells them they’re doing the right thing be being here
  8. Leave
  9. Send Brad emails with open-ended invitations to “catch up”
  10. Show up at Brad’s door, call him a pussy, kiss him, and then never leave

6 for the kisses thing lazy morning kisses before they’ve even opened their eyes, still mumbling half-incoherently, not wanting to wake up Brad / Mike cause I am lost in this ship

aces-low:

Alright! You also asked for some hurt/comfort…so…in my efforts to try to do both of these things I erred on the side of not doing either much. So…sorry about that. Hopefully, you enjoy anyway! ❤

It had been a rough night.

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File under: more moments from Generation Kill that I’m still not over

astreetsussserenade:

The moment in “A Burning Dog” with the smoke grenades when Brad says “I’m asking, sir.”

I simply can’t believe that, if it had been any other officer, Brad would have done anything other than present his arguments, like he does with Nate, and then wait, silently, as if to say “You can, of course, challenge me on this, but you shouldn’t because I’m better than you, and this is the right thing to do.”

But it isn’t any other officer, and Brad wants Nate to feel okay about it, to be okay, to trust Brad, to agree with Brad that this risk is worth it to save civilians, so instead Brad says “ I’m asking” and “

You do have power over this.”

“Sir, your leadership is the only thing I have absolute confidence in.”

“I’m asking, sir.”

“I trust your judgement, sir”

And, of course, Nate does trust Brad, and gives the okay, and if that look when Nate’s walking away means anything other than “I’m trusting you with my Marines, don’t let me down,” I’ll eat the ROUS that Stafford roasts at the end of the episode.