RED STORM RISING [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Tom Clancy
PRINTING HISTORY
G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover edition / August 1986
Berkley mass-market edition / August 1987
Page 252
Number three was decoyed by a chaff cloud and ran straight into the sea half a mile behind the carrier. The warhead caused the carrier to vibrate and raised a column of water a thousand feet into the air.
The fourth and fifth missiles came in from aft, not a hundred yards apart. The after gun mount tracked on both, but couldn't decide which to engage first. It went into Reset mode and petulantly didn't engage any.
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Donlon, Rock, that way.|You two, with me.
Joker, in there! New Guy!
We got the sniper!
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He's never been in the shit.
Hard to talk about. Like on Hastings.
You weren't on Operation Hastings.|You weren't even in country.
Eat shit and die, you fucking|Spanish-American poge!
I was there! I was in the shit|with the grunts.
Don't listen to Payback's bullshit,|Rafterman.
Sometimes he thinks he's John Wayne.
You listen to Joker.
He knows ti ti.
Very little.
He's never been in the shit|'cause he ain't got the stare.
The 1,000-yard stare.
A Marine gets it after he's been|in the shit too long.
It's like, it's like you've|really seen beyond.
I got it.
All field Marines got it.|And you'll have it, too.
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Incoming.
They're outgoing!
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Project Gutenberg's The Time Machine, by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Title: The Time Machine
Author: H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
'Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man.
'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.'
'One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato,' the Very Young Man thought.
'In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go.
The German scholars have improved Greek so much.'
'Then there is the future,' said the Very Young Man. 'Just think! One might invest all one's money, leave it to accumulate at interest, and hurry on ahead!'
'To discover a society,' said I, 'erected on a strictly communistic basis.'
'Of all the wild extravagant theories!' began the Psychologist.
'Yes, so it seemed to me, and so I never talked of it until—'
'Experimental verification!' cried I. 'You are going to verify that?'
'The experiment!' cried Filby, who was getting brain-weary.
'Let's see your experiment anyhow,' said the Psychologist, 'though it's all humbug, you know.'
The Time Traveller smiled round at us. Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory.
The Psychologist looked at us. 'I wonder what he's got?'
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 2006
Reading about them riding in that small transport plane for debriefing reminds me of something similar in my memory, I'm pretty sure I wrote about this a couple years ago. I was leaving the Wainwright to return to the States for the end of my enlistment. We were anchored off Monaco
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 07:13 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Saturday 12 April 2014
