Tag: reyes

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.”

Rudy – N, Q & T

N (Negligence): Rudy isn’t the sort to be consciously negligent, but I feel like he could go on a vision quest or something and forget everyone else exists. He wouldn’t mean to be cruel, and he’d probably be very apologetic, but it might cause issues in his relationships.  

Q (Quest): Rudy’s quest is to be the best he can be, physically. He always seeks to improve himself, to do better today than he did yesterday. Also, he’s on a constant quest to find the smallest booty shorts known to man.

T (Test): I feel like Iraq tested him, like it tested everyone. Weeks out in the desert, shitty food, then not enough shitty food, incompetent command, people shooting at them, and then Pappy getting injured and having to leave. It’s all a lot of pressure and Rudy being made team leader meant he had a fair amount of shit roll down on him. All in all, it’s kind of understandable that he snapped and hurt Ray, though that doesn’t excuse it, of course.