fpw Wrote:Too bad I don't drink.
Lisa Wrote:ROTFL. You so funny.
Charleswg Wrote:Awesome- I love how books can/are woven together.
Now- if you had Jack's Dad serve in the same outfit as Earl Swagger did, I'd flip my lid.
fpw Wrote:Too bad I don't drink.
KRW Wrote:In theory, Jacks dad, Tom, could have bumped into Sarge from "Nightkill." Sarge was a young marine sniper in "42" and Tom was a young marine sniper in "50". I've heard that snipers and infantry don't get along so they usually stay to their own groups. Given that Sarge is a military man, and probably in it for as long as he could, he could have even trained Tom how to shoot. They say alot of the same things in their books. Like when they are both asked about being a sniper, They both say, "Don't say it like it's a dirty word."
They both quit counting kills at 50.
Sarge could even be in one of those black and white photos Tom kept in the locked box.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Considering the kind of person that "Sarge" turned out to be -- and the kind of man Tom was -- he could have been in the part of the photo that was torn off.
Tom did it because he had too, Sarge liked it.
Ken V.
t4terrific Wrote:I've just been informed (in reference to the character "Sarge" in Doom) that a Marine may never be refered to as "Sarge". Supposedly them's fightin words in the Corps, and are never accepted in real life.
I have no knowledge of these things, but A few ex Jarheads let me in on that bit of trivia.
Ken Valentine Wrote:I also have a good friend whose name was Seargeant . . . although, when he was in the military, he was a Captain.
Blake Wrote:I think I saw that routine in the movie Airplane.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Considering the kind of person that "Sarge" turned out to be -- and the kind of man Tom was -- he could have been in the part of the photo that was torn off.
Tom did it because he had too, Sarge liked it.
Ken V.