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One
was
Sergeant
Brumby
,
dead
.
During
the
ruckus
the
second
section
had
rejoined
.
They
had
been
not
far
away
,
sticking
together
to
keep
from
getting
further
lost
in
that
maze
,
and
had
heard
the
fight
.
Hearing
it
,
they
had
been
able
to
trace
it
by
sound
,
where
they
had
not
been
able
to
locate
us
by
radio
.
Cunha
and
I
made
certain
that
our
casualties
were
actually
dead
,
then
consolidated
the
two
sections
into
one
of
four
squads
and
down
we
went
--
and
found
the
Bugs
that
had
our
platoon
sergeant
besieged
.
That
fight
did
n't
last
any
time
at
all
,
because
he
had
warned
me
what
to
expect
.
He
had
captured
a
brain
Bug
and
was
using
its
bloated
body
as
a
shield
.
He
could
not
get
out
,
but
they
could
not
attack
him
without
(
quite
literally
)
committing
suicide
by
hitting
their
own
brain
.
We
were
under
no
such
handicap
;
we
hit
them
from
behind
.
Then
I
was
looking
at
the
horrid
thing
he
was
holding
and
I
was
feeling
exultant
despite
our
losses
,
when
suddenly
I
heard
close
up
that
"
frying
bacon
"
noise
.
A
big
piece
of
roof
fell
on
me
and
Operation
Royalty
was
over
as
far
as
I
was
concerned
.
I
woke
up
in
bed
and
thought
that
I
was
back
at
O.
C.
S.
and
had
just
had
a
particularly
long
and
complicated
Bug
nightmare
.
But
I
was
not
at
O.
C.
S.
;
I
was
in
a
temporary
sickbay
of
the
transport
Argonne
,
and
I
really
had
had
a
platoon
of
my
own
for
nearly
twelve
hours
.
But
now
I
was
just
one
more
patient
,
suffering
from
nitrous
oxide
poisoning
and
overexposure
to
radiation
through
being
out
of
armor
for
over
an
hour
before
being
retrieved
,
plus
broken
ribs
and
a
knock
in
the
head
which
had
put
me
out
of
action
.
It
was
a
long
time
before
I
got
everything
straight
about
Operation
Royalty
and
some
of
it
I
'll
never
know
.
Why
Brumby
took
his
section
underground
,
for
example
.
Brumby
is
dead
and
Naidi
bought
the
farm
next
to
his
and
I
'm
simply
glad
that
they
both
got
their
chevrons
and
were
wearing
them
that
day
on
Planet
P
when
nothing
went
according
to
plan
.
I
did
learn
,
eventually
,
why
my
platoon
sergeant
decided
to
go
down
into
that
Bug
town
.
He
had
heard
my
report
to
Captain
Blackstone
that
the
"
major
breakthrough
"
was
actually
a
feint
,
made
with
workers
sent
up
to
be
slaughtered
.
When
real
warrior
Bugs
broke
out
where
he
was
,
he
had
concluded
(
correctly
and
minutes
sooner
than
Staff
reached
the
same
conclusion
)
that
the
Bugs
were
making
a
desperation
push
,
or
they
would
not
expend
their
workers
simply
to
draw
our
fire
.
