CHAPTER 6
They did not look at each other while they spoke but only squinted ahead toward the building. “Why we goin to this fuckin briefin?” Egan asked. “I mean, why this briefin? We never go to briefins.”
“We never go,” Brooks answered, “because we always … we’re always in the boonies.”
“L-T, you been ta briefins before. You know they aint goina say nothin.”
“Come on, Danny. You really can’t tell. We might get something. Besides, the colonel wanted a good showing for the Third Brigade CO.”
“Shee-it. REMFs givin the briefin only do it so they can kiss the colonel’s ass. And the colonel, he only goes cause he likes to have his ass kissed.”
“Maybe so.”
“They already worked everythin out in the TOC before. Or in the colonel’s office or in the general’s hootch while the old man’s balli
