I bet you expected them to try to talk their way out of that one. I bet you DID.
Ugh. So tired. At least I didn’t have to work through the weekend, though. Had some time for the comic, and a few of my personal hobbies here and there. But it totally WAS a 60-hour week, again. Oy. Sooner or later, there’s going to be an endgame on this, but for the moment, I’m just rolling with what I have in front of me. Not much more I can do than that, really.
So that’s it. Not much more to say. Except, WOW, up 120 points in the TWC poll since last week! Holy cow! Thanks, guys!
Until next week, be well, everyone!
No. No way she didn’t just get shot. there may be a chance if the shooter was touching her AND was slow. If not, it only works in the movies.
Or in comic books. Or U.S. Army training manuals.
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Well even though the guard had orders to shoot, what was their mental state? Did they think the Major was too injured to do this or was unhappy with that set of orders, in either case slowing their reaction time for her to get close. In hand-to-hand combat, and other forms, the mental state of the combatants can win or lose fights before they can begin.
Well, good point. It’s a big gamble, but it’s a good bet she’d be hesitant to shoot a superior officer she knows and has served with.
… or maybe Sarah notice the safety was still on 😉
Staff officer with minimum required range time vs. battlefield veteran who’s had to kill before is one case where this works. Lethal vs. non-lethal force also affects hesitation.
Interesting. The Major is doing real well for having been heavily irradiated and had really bad flash burns inflicted upon her not that long ago. Unless this is a do now, pay later sort of thing.
She is indeed. Unusual, hm? 😉
The fact shes not dead is unusual. Hell, the usual went out the window a chapter ago.
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Well, she’s way past the “giving a shit about getting shot” stage. Getting nuked can have that effect on people.
Trauma can also make people become reckless and self-destructive.
Oh, this is not going to end well. This is not going to end well at all. I mean, thats it, game over man, game over. These two are just gonna be banished to the surface as soon as Haulley gets back from… where ever his brain is, where he is talking with Mike the Deus-Ex Machine
Depends on what Mike has to say, I suppose.
It just seems like the absolute worst thing Sarah could do right now. I mean, aside from the possibility of her being contaminated, she is assaulting a fellow officer, during a crisis. Given the situation, I think Haulley would be within his rights to have the both of them shot on grounds of gross insubordination, but then of course, Mike won’t let him.
Sarah is fed up with your shit.
Like the Phone Company. “We’re tired of taking your crap.”
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Someone did pay attention in her Krav Maga basics… 🙂
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And someone knows a three-point disarming stroke when they see one!
Guilty as charged. One of my goals for next year is to travel to Israel for a two weeks Krav Maga intense training course.
And yeah, I like to suffer…
Though I wonder: Israel probably doesn’t exist in the 6 Command universe. Or maybe it does and is just part of the Arab League? The trouble in the Middle East, the Holocaust and the rise of anti-semitism is a direct result of both world wars. But since WWII didn’t happen in the 6 Commando univsere it might have gone a different route. Maybe even for a worse?
Touchy subject, I know, but a interesting mind game.
Some historians theorize if Germany would have won the first world war the Holocaust might not have happened. On the other hand anti-semitism and the rise of extremist political views and their acceptance by the general public was on the rise anyway, so maybe this would have only delayed or moved it to a different place?
Israel does exist, in that it’s a constituent part of the Federation of Israel-Palestine, which is itself a component member of the Arab League.
I should note, however, that Germany did not win the Great War, as they call it – the end result was a stalemate settled by treaty in 1922, with Germany becoming a Republic after Wilhelm II abdicated. The deciding factor was a communist revolution in Austro-Hungary that threatened to spread to the west, and heavy Anglo-French investment was needed to suppress nascent socialist uprisings in Berlin and Munich. That marked the early stages of the formation of the United Nations Alliance.
Yes, I was aware of that – we discussed it earlier when talking about Hoffmann’s flag patch.
Right now my imagination of the Arab League (and from the little we learned) it sounds like the “best” taken from the religion of Islam mixed with the finest tradition of the Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, reating a reasonably tolerant nation based on religion.
Heh. I’m a bit slow to the mark today due to my travelling, so what I had to say has already been said, that that is indeed the way you’re supposed to disarm somebody. Never tried it in real life, but it always worked in training.
My only quibble would be that maybe Sarah’s right hand isn’t exactly where it should be (you’re supposed to press the palm just behind the wrist, to create leverage), but I know for sure that in a real life situation, with an uncooperative opponent, you sometimes end up doing stuff “wrong” for the sake of expedience and because you have no other choice in the given situation due to the geometry of the engagement – that or she’s simply a bit rusty on her hand-to-hand and she’s relying solely on out-of-date muscle memory. As long as she got the desired result though, I say it’s fine…