The Long Green Shore (2014)
“The sections were ringed out in perimeter.
We cut poles and erected our tiny two-man doover tents—straight, strong poles for the stretchers we carried, and these frames lashed onto the bearers with jungle vines.
‘These are the best damn thing the army ever got out,’ said Dick the Barber. ‘Remember how it was the last time—sleeping on the ground in the rain?’ ‘Yeah,’ said the Log. ‘That first night at Templeton’s Crossing I slept sitting up in a hole with my groundsheet wrapped around me. It rai...ned all night and the water was up to my waist. And my Christ, I was hungry.’ It was a complete blackout that night, of course—no fires, no smoking, no talking after dark. Though you could get a smoke by crouching under a blanket to light the match and you could puff away safely if you shielded the glow of the cigarette at the bottom of the slit trench.
We stood to in the shallow, hastily dug weapon pits at sunset—stand down half an hour after dark. Fifty per cent security—two hours on guard, two hours off.MoreLess
We cut poles and erected our tiny two-man doover tents—straight, strong poles for the stretchers we carried, and these frames lashed onto the bearers with jungle vines.
‘These are the best damn thing the army ever got out,’ said Dick the Barber. ‘Remember how it was the last time—sleeping on the ground in the rain?’ ‘Yeah,’ said the Log. ‘That first night at Templeton’s Crossing I slept sitting up in a hole with my groundsheet wrapped around me. It rai...ned all night and the water was up to my waist. And my Christ, I was hungry.’ It was a complete blackout that night, of course—no fires, no smoking, no talking after dark. Though you could get a smoke by crouching under a blanket to light the match and you could puff away safely if you shielded the glow of the cigarette at the bottom of the slit trench.
We stood to in the shallow, hastily dug weapon pits at sunset—stand down half an hour after dark. Fifty per cent security—two hours on guard, two hours off.MoreLess
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