walks like a vet. talks like a vet. he's got an m4a1 and he carries it like a soldier, cross-body, muzzle down. the long hair doesn't dispel the sense of it, and he's got the ranger motto tattooed on his arm, sua sponte. it's the oldest one he's got. the coordinates for the al-hajarah came after.
so it doesn't get his back up the way discerning other, more private things about him might. he just works his jaw off to one side, then: οΌ
Afghanistan, 2002. Iraq after that. 75th Ranger Regiment.
οΌ the rangers have their own badass cred, but he doesn't say it to brag. at the end of the day, he's not proud of having served, nor the reason he first wanted to. he'd been a dumb kid with an us versus them mentality, caught up in the fervor after 9/11. time tempered that. breaking bread with the families of his unit's translator tempered that. all the things he's learned about the hows and whys of the wars afterwards tempered that.
sam barely likes who he was back then anyway. the military helped to shape him into the man that broke billie's heart, and he can't say he didn't deserve the fallout that followed. οΌ
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walks like a vet. talks like a vet. he's got an m4a1 and he carries it like a soldier, cross-body, muzzle down. the long hair doesn't dispel the sense of it, and he's got the ranger motto tattooed on his arm, sua sponte. it's the oldest one he's got. the coordinates for the al-hajarah came after.
so it doesn't get his back up the way discerning other, more private things about him might. he just works his jaw off to one side, then: οΌ
Afghanistan, 2002. Iraq after that. 75th Ranger Regiment.
οΌ the rangers have their own badass cred, but he doesn't say it to brag. at the end of the day, he's not proud of having served, nor the reason he first wanted to. he'd been a dumb kid with an us versus them mentality, caught up in the fervor after 9/11. time tempered that. breaking bread with the families of his unit's translator tempered that. all the things he's learned about the hows and whys of the wars afterwards tempered that.
sam barely likes who he was back then anyway. the military helped to shape him into the man that broke billie's heart, and he can't say he didn't deserve the fallout that followed. οΌ