And the floater has markings on it-numerals and letters-thatcould have been a military designation. It hadn't been too bad though-aspray-and he didn't stink. Colonels, Voker said, I suggest we all go to base headquarters. Not commandeered.
***It was when he came to a pond surrounded by floating bog, that Krorealized the old man had passed out. The other two ranger companies should be pressing on toreach the artillery at the top. A fragment bit him and he yelped, sat downabruptly in the snow and rolled backward, grabbing at his right arm. And if, in the past, he'd felt adeep visceral fear of combat, he'd added to it now an intellectual fear.
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