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Agree 100% that it sounds stupid to you and many others who are, perhaps, left of center and have not spent a lot of time around the military. I understood it the minute I heard it, just as I understood the pride in the faces of those servicemen and women when he landed on the carrier. Different paradigms.
Time will tell if my assessment that it is much ado about nothing is correct.
Go Hodean!

# 3 of course. Sounds to me like the sarge was keeping the grunts in line in front of the big boss. As to heathens, I believe he's using the word sort of sarcastically. Troops have always had shorthand, semi-derogatory ways of referring to the enemy and that's understandable, considering they might kill or be killed by those Heathens, Ivans, Japs, Krauts, Jerries, whatever.

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