Detachment Bravo
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28 Name, Rank & Serial Number.
29 Sensitive, Compartmented Information Facility.
30 All-Powerful Editor.
31 In Yiddish, literally “rattled his teacup.”
32 UNless Otherwise DIRected.
33 Lunfardo (Buenos Aires street slang) for Dude.
34 It means cool in Lunfardo. I told you Boomerang spoke fluent Spanish.
35 Bad luck.
36 Shoe.
37 Approved.
38 The Rogue Warrior®’s First Law of Physics © 1999, Richard Marcinko and John Weisman.
39 Naval Combat Demolition Units.
40 Underwater Demolition Teams.
41 Kraut spook-talk for a covert rendezvous.
42 Pieces Of Cake.
43 Spanish for lizard.
44 (Pronounced KOO): Quick Once-Over.
45 Divide And Conquer.
46 Off limits.
47 I think you can figure out this Spanish word for yourself.
48 Remember that? It stands for Clusterfuck Condition.
49 That’s the old thumb-and-forefinger in a circle.
50 Spanish for street plan.
51 Dumbasses, in South American Spanish slang.
52 That’s jerking off, accompanied by large quantities of rum.
53 Pussy-eating
54 Arabic slang for bribery.
55 Noses.
56 Armed & Dangerous.
57 FIDO is Army Rangerspeak for “Fuck It—Drive On.”
58 Obviously it stands for Plaza-In-Question.
59 Surveillance Detection Route.
60 A medium-rare hamburger and French fries.
61 The whole truth; the pure truth.
62 That’s Wrong Place, Wrong Time. Remember?
63 All-Powerful Editor.
64 Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape.
65 What I am doing here is called, in the intel trade, a false flag operation. By (aptly, I think) passing myself off as a Frog, I am concealing my true intentions and objectives from Frederico Pereira. Thus, if something should go wrong, he will only be able to report to the authorities that a Frenchman named Max Bertaud, from l’École de la Océanographie de Paris, rented one of his Zodiacs to do some work charting the currents around the islands. And, of course, there will be no record of any Max Bertaud in the French government’s files.
66 Window Of Opportunity.
67 EEIs are Essential Elements of Information; the info-bits necessary to critical mission planning. In a seaborne attack, EEIs may include (but are not limited to): the sea’s state and currents; the weather and visibility; the enemy’s sensor capabilities—radar, IR, night vision, etc.—as well as the moon’s phase and its set and rise times.
68 No, the Zodiac Pro-II does not have a literal firewall. The model we were sailing had a steering console, to which the outboard’s remote throttle was attached on the starboard side, and a stainless steel grab handle. I am simply being figurative here. Call it Roguish literary license.
69 What The Fuck It Was.
70 Roguishly Unvarnished Terms.
71 The words come from the libretto of John Gay’s 1728 hit The Beggar’s Opera. They were sung by the original London Rogue, a cutthroat named Macheath—aka Mack the Knife. And here’s an interesting sidebar: the phrase is actually a pun, because in the eighteenth century, the words death and debt were pronounced similarly. That makes them all the more relevant to us Warriors from DET Bravo. Did ya Get It? And by “It” I mean the significance of the title of this book now?
Hey, just because I use the F-word a lot, don’t think I’m just another hairy-assed, sloppin’ hoppin’, screw-cap poppin’ philistine. ’Cause I ain’t. I know this shit. I can do the literary stuff like puns and metaphors and similes, too. You gotta understand, I got culture.
72 The latest thing.
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