This is a park right here that’s supposed to be used as a staging area for the Fedayeen. From our position, we’re gonna be able to use night optics and set up an OP on the park. And come morning, we move in and sweep it for signs of hostile forces.
“They thought they were gonna get the drop on the Iceman? Fuck, no! The Iceman can see you before you even know you’re there.’‘
- Generation Kill (2008)
You know, there should be at least some grammar tests before you’re out here, blowing shit up with heavy weapons.
Generation kill | Alexander Skarsgård as Sergeant Brad ‘Iceman’ Colbert
And now we have to show these people what we liberated them for.
one must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine-trees crusted with snow; and have been cold a long time to behold the junipers shagged with ice, the spruces rough in the distant glitter of the January sun; and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land full of the same wind that is blowing in the same bare place
for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing himself, beholds nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.