On department of defense
Form six-two-niner
Subject's vehicle was secured
At scene by Mike Papas
Did they ever whip
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His sorry ass...
Other peculiarities of military speech and tone abound: an officer's continual mispronunciation of a soldier's name, the false bravado and condescension of childish officers and men, and hyperbole filled with paradoxical accuracy:
Sergeant Rock was in the army
Since the day he was born
He was in the war of the babies.
Casey at no time tells the reader what to think, but the obvious honesty of his account and its deceptive simplicity make his points more deftly and forcefully than if he had:
If you see a little bald-headed kid
Don't do that
Don't go pattin him on the head
This kid's Buddhist
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