Commando

And then from there, I went to Fort Benning, Georgia for airborne school.

That was crazy as well, because when you go to airborne school, you go with Marines, recon, soon-to-be Marines, soon-to-be Green Berets, soon-to-be Rangers.

They approached me to be a Green Beret.

They approached me to be a Ranger.

I said, hey, I just want to be a paratrooper for now.

I don't want to hit the Tan Berets or the Green Berets.

Tan Berets are Rangers.

The Green Berets are Special Forces operations.

Marines,

recon, soon-to-be Marines, soon-to-be Green Berets, soon-to-be Rangers.

They approached me to be a Green Beret.

They approached me to be a Ranger.

I said, hey, I just want to be a paratrooper for now.

I don't want to hit the Tan Berets or the Green Berets.

Tan Berets are Rangers.

The Green Berets are Special Forces operations.

But anyway, she starts exploring the mansion.

Eventually, the mansion gets swarmed by a bunch of Umbrella Commandos.

Yeah, they seem like they're just like a SWAT team.

And then there's this other random dude there who says he's a

"He was my top chum, but, uh, was ill," and he, he got these rather ghastly sores, and they thought he had diphtheria.

So he was sent home to England, recovered, then joined the Commando Brigade as the brigade major, quite a sort of senior post, and, and saw action with them, um, uh, in Sicily and Italy, and, and then went on to the SAS.

But I can elaborate on that if you want.

Interesting.

And-

Cavalry

... and see, this is amazing because if you think about the, the, you know, he's at school, you know, he knows Stirling, he's, you know, he's mates with the f- the guy who's, who's in the Commandos.

Of course, Niven famously goes and works for Phantom a-and never talks about it.

The backstabbers and rocketeers springing dubious but violently effective strategies.

This is the Stormboys, Commandos, and Snickrot.

Yeah, sorry, I do just want to quickly jump back.

We didn't mention it, but Bully Boys also have Purge the Foe, which is a problem.

I think this is fantastic.

While you've got Boss Snickrot with his Strength 6, 2 AP, 2 Damage Precision, Anti-Infantry 2, Mork's Teeth, just making a mess of your opponent's backline.

I do find it really weird, though, the contrast between Boss Snickrot and the Commandos being really stealthy infiltrators, and then your battle line Storm Boys just making an absolute hollering noise as they charge up the battlefield.

Because we all know Storm Boys ain't quiet.

And he, I think he stayed in touch very much with his friends from Eton.

They were all much of a muchness, and quite a, a gang of them gravitated towards the sort of special operations world in World War II, the Commandos, the SAS, Long Range Desert Group, et cetera.

And how he got in-- I mean, I'm, I-- we can go into that a bit later, how he got there.

But he, he did-- he kept his connections throughout his life.

Mm.

The- or, or Kommandos.

There's Kommandos.

Kommandos.

Yeah.

I almost said Kommandos are more elite than Nobz, 'cause all Nobz are are just big and strong.

Ooh, what about Squigoth?

Kommandos actually have to have some finesse with it.

And then from there, I went to Fort Benning, Georgia for airborne school.

That was crazy as well, because when you go to airborne school, you go with Marines, recon, soon-to-be Marines, soon-to-be Green Berets, soon-to-be Rangers.

They approached me to be a Green Beret.

They approached me to be a Ranger.

I said, hey, I just want to be a paratrooper for now.

I don't want to hit the Tan Berets or the Green Berets.

Tan Berets are Rangers.

The Green Berets are Special Forces operations.

... or like, "Sounds fine.

It's good, mate." But I mean, you make a really good point, and I think, like, I don't know if this is because it was, you know, post-9/11 and we needed more soldiers, but bringing people in direct into Commandos or Special Force is amazing because maybe they don't have the bad habits that built up in a, a battalion, and maybe they've got-

Mm

... a different context, right? And 'cause you, you was talking about, or spoken about people that have had 20 years in, right?