{"id":200,"date":"2009-07-03T18:19:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T22:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auroraforce.org\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2009-07-03T18:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T22:19:45","slug":"vong-war-annals-old-recruits-5122009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.auroraforce.org\/blog\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Vong War Annals &#8211; &#8220;Old Recruits&#8221; 5.12.2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m not sure how deep you were, but there\u2019s a war on, and for once it\u2019s not about the Remnant.\u00a0 I put out a call to get everyone I could back here, but I\u2019ll be damned if I got as many as I\u2019d hoped.\u00a0 A few are tied up, can\u2019t leave their current postings for reassignment.\u00a0 Few I couldn\u2019t find\u2014I\u2019ve got Tag on that, now, thank the Force she\u2019s back\u2014and then a few are dead.\u00a0 You were in the latter category.\u201d\u00a0 She stood up and began to pace.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>The hell were they thinking?\u00a0 How low can we stoop?<\/em>\u00a0 She exhaled quietly through her teeth, pinching the bridge of her nose.\u00a0 \u201cI need experienced commanders.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got children.\u00a0 When we signed the peace with the Remnant\u2026most of the veterans retired.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t blame them\u2014I still don\u2019t.\u00a0 But they were replaced by a generation that\u2019s half trained and wholly unready for what we\u2019re looking at.\u201d\u00a0 She managed to smile.\u00a0 \u201cHell, I\u2019m not even sure that <em>I\u2019m <\/em>ready for what we\u2019re looking at, to be honest.\u00a0 But it says a lot that one of my best commanders is someone I chased out from under my desk when he was five.\u201d\u00a0 She stopped pacing, stared out the window for a long moment, then looked back to him.\u00a0 \u201cWhat do you say, Major?\u00a0 Want to get back in the saddle, or do you just want to be some sort of grunt on the front lines, in the trenches\u2014wherever they end up being?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>~ Erin<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>Share<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Vong%20War%20Annals%20-%20%22Old%20Recruits%22%205.12.2009&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.auroraforce.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D200&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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