and the marine yells good shooting tex and then he stands up and waits for a second and he squeezes the trigger , really calm , and the rifle rattles , and then there is silence for a long time , maybe ten seconds and you remember that you are supposed to get the radio and you scoot back to the back of the humvee and snake your hand over the fender and feel the handle and try to haul it up and over , but its too heavy , so you have to take a deep breath and stand up and lift the heavy fucker over and down , and then you put it on the ground between you and its still silent , and the marine says maybe there was only two of them and you say what the fuck was that all about and he says who the fuck knows could be iraqis could be kurds could be some bored ass motherfucker that was a mine in the road prolly remote detonated with following fire pretty basic maneuver your officer is dead and you say yea hes dead and the marine says too bad but you got some back for him and then he squats down and fires up the radio and you then realize that you did get some and you wish you felt worse about it .