{"id":81757,"date":"2018-09-12T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81757"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:41:45","slug":"81757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81757","title":{"rendered":"38 Simulated Combat Drops?? Yeah, We’re Dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love the first two movies in this bunch. \u201cAlien\u201d was a spook show, with more McGuffins than Hitchcock ever dreamed of. If you had a date with you, I\u2019m sure that afterwards, you had some kind of reward for your effort.<\/p>\n

The second one, simply titled \u2018Aliens\u2019 put poor old Ripley right back into her worst nightmare in the company of Colonial Marines led by a greenhorn 2nd<\/sup> Lieutenant who had a record of 38 simulated combat drops (whoopee!), and a crusty, grumpy, sarcastic, cigar-chomping Sergeant Apone who would start his day with a cigar before breakfast. He was\u00a0 played by Al Matthews, who had 13 years of Marine Corps AD life, a good portion of it in Vietnam. Now, he’s a musician and composer.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/articles\/marine-infantry-life-aliens<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m just going to leave this here and let you Marines tell me if you think the assessment of the movie\u2019s Colonial Marines is close to the mark.<\/p>\n

Do the Marines always get the junk the Army doesn\u2019t want or like?<\/p>\n

Is there only one whiny private in a unit?<\/p>\n

Is every 2nd<\/sup> Lieutenant an idiot with a poker up his backside until he\u2019s been shot at a bunch of times?<\/p>\n

Are all boot Hershey Bar Lieutenants so dumb they’d get lost in a shoebox, even with a map, a compass, and a flashlight?<\/p>\n

Are the pranks as harmless as the one in the movie?<\/p>\n

Do the Marines get the MREs that nobody else wants? That mealtime scene, where Drake asks \u2018What is<\/em> this?\u201d referring to the yellow block on his tray, and Hicks, \u201cIt\u2019s supposed to be cornbread. It\u2019s good for you. Eat it.\u201d I figure a full carton of MREs with fish that no one will eat would be an Army reject.<\/p>\n

Anything you want to add to that is fine by me. \u00a0There\u2019s other stuff, too, but those are a start.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t seen those two movies, I have to ask \u201cWhat planet are <\/em>you from?\u201d<\/p>\n

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