Things like this made grunts hate rear echelon folks: Marines who sit behind computers in AC and call home twice a week while we wash our nuts with baby wipes and wait impatiently for handwritten letters from our moms and girlfriends to arrive.… more
Writer: Matt Eidson
Other Than, Person
FICTION by Matt EidsonHole punched through the roof and a gunner’s mount bolted on, allowing a junior Marine to poke his head out and swivel around behind a big ass gun. Close to a hundred pounds and barrel almost four feet long. Teenagers with that kind of firepower make a lot of dick jokes.… more
MEET ME AT THE QUARTERDECK
FICTION by Matt EidsonThat’s what so many civilians don’t seem to understand. We’re not all gun-toting, dip-spitting, far right fuckheads who want to kill somebody and talk shit to ‘Lib-tards’ and collect American flag tattoos. Some of us, the vast majority of us, are just kids who wanted to go to college, to travel the world, to support our families.… more
