COMBAT: Parallel Lines (A Jock Miles-Moon Brothers Korean War Story Book 3) by William Peter Grasso

Author:William Peter Grasso [Grasso, William Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2019-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

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General Ridgway was happy with the defensive positions along Line D, too. He only found a few places where the fields of fire didn’t make as good a use of terrain as they might have. When he told his engineering officer those mistakes were to be corrected by sunset, the colonel replied, “That’s impossible, sir. There’s not enough time.”

“It’s your job to make it possible, Colonel,” Ridgway replied. “Are you telling me you can’t do your job?”

“But sir…that gives us only four hours, and my men have already worked their tails off doing what you asked. It’s not fair to—”

“Fair doesn’t apply in matters of life and death, Colonel. Now I’ve already given you a big pile of attaboys for the great work you’ve done so far. Don’t let one aw, shit wipe them all out.”

The engineer noticed Ridgway seemed to be speaking not to his face, but to the insignia of rank—the eagle—on his fur-lined cap. Withered by the general’s unwavering gaze at that eagle, he became quite certain that the silver bird could quickly regress to the silver oak leaf of a lieutenant colonel, or even the gold leaf of a major if that one aw, shit came to pass.

“Sunset, Colonel,” the general reminded him.

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