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Show 182 They didn't find Red's body in the field between the jungle and the camp. It was all in pieces. It was somewhere else. It was gone. It was just one of those things. He walked into the camp two days after the Marines took it back. All that was left of his xxxxxx underwear was the waist band and the new officers were plenty suspicious except that Red's dog tags seemed to confirm things and he sure didn't look Japanese, besides the survivors of the escape and counter-attack said, yeah, that was the guy who led them and that was the guy they saw go down amidst a thousand Japs in the middle of the field. But he aint even an officer. Well what the fuck, everybody was in their underwear. Or dead. Or both. "Where you been the last couple days?" xk asked the interrogating captain. "I don't know," said Red. True as Asian Flu. Some kind of Sacred Mystery, worse, the more the accounts of everything gathered it looked like Red deserved a medal. "What do you think we should do with you?" asked the x captain. "Put me in the front lines," said Red. They shipped him back to Hawaii. The x Marines never admitted that the famous Midway Underwear Massacre ever happened. They didn't lose any ground, just a few thousand casualties, many without uniforms or dog tags, so by the time they gradually gathered all the information, day by day, it looked like it took a long time for all those guys to die. Back in Hawaii they made Red a sergeant and put him to work in the mess hall as an assistant janitor where it didn't take Red long to see how inefficient everything was besides the fact that all the assistants worked like bastards while the guys in charge stood around and watched, so Red went up to the head janitor and said, listen, you know how good I work, why not put me ixak in charge and then you can go off and do what you want and come back at the end of the day and I'll report to you and if you don't like the job I'm doing well you can just take over again, and then Red went around to the head cook and the head supply man and the head xxx distribution man and told them all the same thing and sconced was ruru^ng everyihing.^hen he put the most reliable people in charge |