He didn't like the way the conversation was goingIt was feeding a few worms of doubt in his mindBesides he knew Sergeant Brown didn't like anybody to disagree with him "Well, now," Brown said, "you're a good kid, and you're smart, but it just don't pay to trust a womanShe's beautiful, I've shown you her picture
"She's really a good-looking dame," Stanley agreed quickly "No doubt about it, she's beautifulYou think she's gonna sit around and wait for me? No, she ain'tShe's out having herself a good time
"Well, I wouldn't say that," Stanley suggested "Why not? You ain't going to hurt any feelings of mineI know what she's doing, and when I get back I'm going to have a little accounting with herI'm going to ask her first, 'Been having any dates?' and if she says, 'Yes,' I'll get the rest out of her in two minutesAnd if she says, 'No, honey, honest I haven't, you know me,' I'm just going to do a little
big black bag checking with my friends and if I find she's been lying, well, then I'll have her, and, man, maybe I won't give her some lumps before I kick her out Brown shook his head in emphasisHe was about medium size, a trifle fat, with a young boyish face, a snub nose, freckles, and reddish-brown hairBut wrinkles had formed about his eyes and there were several jungle ulcers on his chinAt a second glance, it was apparent that he was easily twenty-eight years old "It certainly would be a dirty deal for a guy to get when he does go back," Stanley offered Sergeant Brown nodded soberly, and then his face turned bitter"What do you expect? Do you think you're going to go home a hero? Listen, when you get home folks are going to look at you and say, 'Arthur Stanley, you been gone a long time,' and you'll say, 'Yeah,' and then they'll say, 'Well, things've been pretty rough here, but I guess they're going to improve someYou're sure
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Stanley laughed"I haven't seen much," he said modestly, "but I do know that those poor civilians don't begin to know the score
"Man, but they don't," Brown said"Listen, you've seen enough combat at Motome to have an ideaWhy, when I think of my wife fooling around probably right this minute, while I'm lying here sweating out tomorrow, I begin to get mad He cracked his knuckles nervously, fingered the steel pipe between their hammocks"It ain't as if tomorrow is gonna be so bad although they'll have recon working its ass off, but a little work ain't gonna kill us"Hell, if General Cummings was to come up to me tomorrow and say, 'Brown, I'm putting you on unloading detail for the duration,' you think I'd bitch? In the pig's hole I wouldI've seen enough combat to last ten men, and I'll tell you this invasion tomorrow if we was to be shelled from the ship to the beach and back couldn't
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"What happened?" Stanley askedHe flexed his knees carefully to avoid kicking the man in the bunk above him, only a foot above his headThis story he had heard a dozen times when he was first assigned to recon, but he knew Brown liked to tell it "Well, from the beginning when they assigned the platoon to Baker Company for that rubber boat deal, it was a cinch we were screwed, but what could you do?" He went on, telling a story of how they had set out in rubber boats from a destroyer several hours before the dawn, had been caught in an ebb tide and seen by the Japanese"Man," Brown said, "maybe you think I wasn't keeping a tight asshole when those Japs started firing at us with an AA batteryThere wasn't any of our boats that didn't get hit some and start sinking, and in the one next to us was the Company Commander,
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Stanley shook his head in commiseration"That Croft is quite a guy," he said "Quite a guy! Listen, he's made of ironHe's the one man I'd never crossHe's probably the best platoon sergeant in the Army and the meanestHe just doesn't have any nerves," Brown said bitterly"Out of all the old guys in recon, there ain't one of us whose nerves ain't shotI tell ya, I'm scared all the time, and Red
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