Darren Shadix > Quotes

“A Day 15 Months In The Making from “The Light Brigade”477 Home Psychotic Home Epilogue APPENDIX Glossary: Acronym, Abbreviation & Jargon Decoder Bibliography We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. ---Mother Teresa”
― Darren Shadix, To Quell The Korengal

“You Know You’ve Been Deployed Too Long When...”
― Darren Shadix, To Quell The Korengal

“Fragging the C.O. is discussed openly and with a great deal of enthusiasm and intricate planning.”
― Darren Shadix, To Quell The Korengal

“Everyone in the Platoon rotates into your hooch twelve times a day asking if you have any “new porn.”
― Darren Shadix, To Quell The Korengal

“The neck around your I.B.A. (body armor) is solid black.”
― Darren Shadix, To Quell The Korengal

“And the tan somehow dissuades them from shooting at the NODs plate?” I asked. “Like tan’s harder to hit than black? Who comes up with these things? I swear to God sometimes I think there’s a paranoid room full of retards with a lotta rank and no practical experience that just sit around and dream up dumb things for us to do.”
― Darren Shadix, To Quell The Korengal

“You’re about one mag away from wearing out the chrome lined barrel on your M-4, which you know to be good for 40,000 rounds.”
― Darren Shadix, To Quell The Korengal

“about as true-to-life as Obama riding into Afghanistan on a My Little Pony leading a full frontal assault on the Taliban.”
― Darren Shadix, To Quell The Korengal