troopies

We've been there nearly a decade already, even when the instigator in that fight decided to hold a sideshow war in Iraq which Mr. Harper would still be defending had he then been in any position to send our troopies there, and things aren't improving.

1. Afghanistan. 2. ???? 3. Accomplishment! CC 2009

The stickers on our suitcases, the grenade drills, the waves to the sunburned troopies and dashes to school with parents armed with revolvers and automatic weapons—they had all seemed like a big, crazy adventure.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

The troopies had their own language, and snippets of conversation about close shaves with “flatdogs” (crocodiles) on the Zambezi, or donnering (killing) gooks out in the shateen (the wilderness) at Gona-Re-Zhou (a name meaning “refuge for elephants”), would drift over to me as I hovered awkwardly.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

The stickers on our suitcases, the grenade drills, the waves to the sunburned troopies and dashes to school with parents armed with revolvers and automatic weapons—they had all seemed like a big, crazy adventure.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Dad would take the rehydrated mashed potato, rice, curry powder, peanuts, and tins of Lucky Strike sardines, beef stew, and chopped ham “chopped fetus,” the troopies called it, which he traded with the African soldiers for their delicious Nyemo beans.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Dad would take the rehydrated mashed potato, rice, curry powder, peanuts, and tins of Lucky Strike sardines, beef stew, and chopped ham “chopped fetus,” the troopies called it, which he traded with the African soldiers for their delicious Nyemo beans.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

The troopies had their own language, and snippets of conversation about close shaves with “flatdogs” (crocodiles) on the Zambezi, or donnering (killing) gooks out in the shateen (the wilderness) at Gona-Re-Zhou (a name meaning “refuge for elephants”), would drift over to me as I hovered awkwardly.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Bond is catalytically crucial in giving the villains of these films their comuppances, but most of the grunt work involved is done by a literal army of others - Japanese intelligence agency ninjas; nuclear submariners of the U.S., British and Soviet fleets and Space Shuttle-riding American special ops troopies, respectively, in chronologocal order of appearance.

The Speculist: Casino Royale 2006

The prescence of uniformed troopies on the ground may be all that prevents a second Rwanda.

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'Whenever a new group forms, or an old group takes in new members … don't matter if it's a regiment or a patrol, nor even if it's troopies or officers … there'll be some shoving to see who's first to the trough.

Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005