I still have flashbacks to this day; I was a skinny kid, thick glasses fogging up, fatigues sopping wet with ten pounds of Southeast Asian humidity and G.I sweat. The LT had just walked over a ridge when we all heard that telltale sound - '"Sping spink spinkspink..." "Owee, damn, I'm hit!"
Sure enough - Charlie had been waiting in ambush and suddenly cut loose with a murderous barrage of Airsoft fire, a lethal hail of plastic pellets reducing the LT to a mass of bruised flesh. The Old Man, they called him Gunny, never slowed down to think. He returned fire with a blistering fusillade of his own plastic pellets, and the screams of the retreating VC were the sounds of victory that day. One of the guys was so badly marked on his buttock , he put in for a Purple Heart, name was Kerry; but the LT just shook it off. Later, he joined another combat force, the BAT-FU, the "Fighting Blue Falcons"* and assisted in raids on dangerous toy shops. He said, 'Remember - Buddy is only half the word...."
* if you aren't sure what a Blue Falcon is, ask your son to explain it. I reckon he's encountered one or two in his career.
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I still have flashbacks to this day; I was a skinny kid, thick glasses fogging up, fatigues sopping wet with ten pounds of Southeast Asian humidity and G.I sweat. The LT had just walked over a ridge when we all heard that telltale sound - '"Sping spink spinkspink..." "Owee, damn, I'm hit!"
Sure enough - Charlie had been waiting in ambush and suddenly cut loose with a murderous barrage of Airsoft fire, a lethal hail of plastic pellets reducing the LT to a mass of bruised flesh.
The Old Man, they called him Gunny, never slowed down to think. He returned fire with a blistering fusillade of his own plastic pellets, and the screams of the retreating VC were the sounds of victory that day.
One of the guys was so badly marked on his buttock , he put in for a Purple Heart, name was Kerry; but the LT just shook it off. Later, he joined another combat force, the BAT-FU, the "Fighting Blue Falcons"* and assisted in raids on dangerous toy shops. He said, 'Remember - Buddy is only half the word...."
* if you aren't sure what a Blue Falcon is, ask your son to explain it. I reckon he's encountered one or two in his career.
Answer to the question.
Because they are evil and incompetent but not always stupid.
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