Chapter 42-3 Chasing Ghosts

[Red Shirt]

So, I'm all tore up from listening to the episode and then I come in and see the Fort Irwin Kings of Comedy all lined up smiling like that.....

As someone else has already said: best and worst episode so far. I was doing ok until Robbins started trying to get Muldoon. And then someone must have started cutting onions in my truck or something cuz I had eye leaks.

Very well done! Tony Rey, Shaun Lewin, Christian Vieira: it was great hearing your voices on the show. Your characters are at the top of the list for me and a lot of others. Thank you!!!

Yeah... I re-listened to the episode for taking notes on something or other that I can't even recall right now... I listened in Sonic Visualizer, y'know, just in case. Between my note taking and the visuals, I was paying a great deal of attention.

Spoilered for Maudlin & Depressing:

SPOILER 

I mentioned my CLS training and that I have never needed to use it in combat... I have no illusions that anything that I experienced will ever compare to what the boots on ground went through... but I've heard the stories from the guys that came back. The stories that Soldiers only tell other Soldiers.
In Kuwait, the Mortuary Affairs branch had their office next to mine. Occasionally, their casualty reports would get sent to our printer and I would need to bring them over. Often they were scans of hand written reports that were photocopied with the ID card of the soldier. I sat in on the morning logistics brief which included the "Angel Flight" report. The time and number of soldiers that were getting sent home to for the very last time... I probably never met any of them... but from those reports, I remember their faces. This episode brought that back. It really got to me. Still haven't written or posted whatever it was I was taking notes for.

Kc, Tony Rey, Shaun Lewin, Christian Vieira and Brett Newton... Bravo. I've never been there, but I think you got it right.

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It makes sense to me that he could have intelligence trials too.

Yup. My thinking was that the arena was more that just a playground for his horde, it also served as training and selection for candidates.