Fixed Bayonets! Page #3

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makin'a decision.

You can say that again.

Hey, you went to

officer school, didn't you?

What happened?

Goofed off there, huh? How?

I just figured out I was never cut out

to be a leader of anything.

You're a corporal.

Only three guys in this outfit above you.

Gibbs, Lonergan and me.

Before this mess is over,

you're liable to lead the whole platoon.

Takes three months in O.C.S.

Out here it only takes three seconds...

to be the number one Joe,

the ichiban boy.

Gibbs, Lonergan and me. We could

stop three bullets just like that.

Come off it, Rock.

For an old dog face like you that's

bellied from Tunisia to Czechoslovakia...

there's no bullet now

that's gonna stop you.

Whew! This-

This is some mountain.

This ain't no mountain. It's just a hill.

Ain't that right, Whitey?

It's sheer rock

with ice hummocks...

and a complex

of palisaded ridges...

that only an Alpinist would

undertake to ascend frontally.

- What'd he say?

- He said it's a hill.

Duck!

Two hundred. Zero.

Try one for effect.

Range- 200. Zero.

Smoke.

Shift right, six mils.

Fire for effect.

Shift right, six mils.

Fire for effect.

All right,

take a break.

Medic!

- Medic!

- Wheeler!

Lieutenant!

I found a cave up here!

All right, come on, you guys.

Let's move. Rock found a hole for us.

Come on, Jonesy,

move your butt.

- Haven't you ever been in a cave before,

Sergeant? - All right! All right!

That's a stalactite

you tried to knock down.

Very interesting species.

It's been many years since I've seen

such an elongated pendulous.

It's probably 2,000 years old.

Now they look like icicles,

but most of them are minerals.

This is calcite crystals.

That is a stalagmite.

The counterpart of a stalactite.

Shut up!

All right,

you guys... Hey!

Hey, now, watch your step in here.

This place is full of...

Rocks!

And there's an ice pond

here too.

Come on. Let's see

how far back this goes.

But, Sergeant, there's usually a chasm

at the end of an ice pool.

Unless you want Denno to suddenly

become the new squad leader.

How about it, Denno?

There's a drop down there.

Don't anybody fall in, 'cause ain't nobody

gonna pull nobody out.

All right, you guys,

get that ammo out ofhere.

Take all that stuff.

Get it around the back.

- Take that mortar too.

- Sarge, I don't like my hole.

Oh, Bigmouth

doesn't like his hole.

But there's a great one

way up there.

- Oh, there's a great one way up there?

- Yeah.

I'll tell you what, Bigmouth.

There's a great one way up there.

Now you get out there and get in it. Wait a

minute. Take some of this ammo with you.

Sarge, what's eating him?

- What's your name?

- Bulchek.

Bulchek, huh? Okay, Bulchek,

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