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yourself today and find out just what you stand to gain full information is available at your nearest US Army and US Air Force recruiting station and now your army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production four of a kind his name is Edgar Allen Standish is dead as a professor of American literature at an Eastern University and he named his first son after one of America's greatest writers Edgar Allen Poe of course when the youngster was born 23 years ago professor Standish had no way of knowing the boy would grow up to be a writer but he took no chances and named him Edgar Allen anyway so far Edgar Allen Standish has matched his illustrious namesake in one respect like Poe he became a sergeant in the army and maybe one day like Poe he'll become a famous writer but all that will have to wait because unfortunately for our civilization through no fault of ours right now the sword is mightier than the pen in a faithful peninsula called Korea what are we getting from the line Kennedy nothing sir shall I check again if there was anything doing we'd be able to hear it get fox and easy anyhow yes sir well you talk major only have Captain Goulden all the tenant gray have something to talk about Uncle Dudley calling Fox one Fox one what's cooking whether look clear right over nothing Kennedy nothing sir Uncle Dudley calling easy one easy one right easy one over that's how we stand major gray says it's like a rainy Sunday night down the farm no artillery no mortars no small arms fire no red patrols no nothing now I'm worried the reds are bad enough when they're up to something but they stay in their own backyard three days straight look out question is sir what are they up to they're not relieving they're not reinforcing all that makes noise and nobody's heard a peep out of them in three days well they tried to take us by a soul last week and they got properly clobbered and we're dug in too strong sir and yet they have to try to do something about us we're like a sore thumb sticking into that position well sir maybe they figure if they ignore us we'll just go away George Company is in reserve the men are pretty well rested get four or five of your best and send them out on a patrol yes sir uncle Dudley calling George one George one the honeymoon's over I don't know about you I got four deuces naturally I got a full house I'm not interested in your long sad stories there wouldn't apart well Jacob's better luck next time for over kind the guy lives right why shouldn't he live right huh when he's home what does he throw all day feeds chickens and milks the cows yeah how can you get into trouble your deal city boy uh-oh look who's here if ever I saw bad news written on a man's face all right mercury speak his name ain't mercury mercury was the messenger of the gods hi sergeant the old man want me troop yeah what does it sound like a patrol we're supposed to be in reserve can you imagine what a fine respectable war this would be if there weren't any patrols still you're outside I think you'd better Jacobs after all the old man wants me how did it look if I told him I was too busy playing cards come on let's go through they tell me something city boy do you got a list of stupid questions they just come into your head like troops as it smells like a patrol city boy you know I got you beat again I got aces start complaining quiet patrol huh well just let me get rid of all my bad luck right now that's how it is Tandish has been quiet these past few days well the outpost doesn't hear anything air observation doesn't see anything I agree with the old man when they're quiet start to sweat how many men you want me to take sir three in yourself ought to do it now I don't have to tell you how to behave in a deal like this you've been in on enough of them matter of fact maybe you want more than three no no no sir four of us and all should be enough we'll try for a prisoner and that'll take time because just any prisoner won't do that's right but those jokers you don't know you might grab yourself a red-hard commissar oh we'll try to stay in there as long as we safely can sir just keep our ears and eyes open okay now anything you want to know well our company's been out of the line a week sir I'd like another look at the latest maps good we've got the high ground still and our fire commands are left flank they've really got ourselves a position here sir how can they afford to let us keep it how can they afford to take it they tried last week remember but they have to do something something bold unorthodox haven't we been up against that division before sir I think it's the best outfit they've got you can expect them to try anything and they will too answer there's no moon tonight so the sooner I get started the more darkness I'll have okay Sergeant Tandish good luck thank you sir coffee before you go troop has a pot boiling no thank you sir I got three boys back in the hut the suspense must be killing him okay goodbye sir goodbye Sarge so long Mercury why does he call you Mercury beats me sir at stand as she sure has some flowery ways of talking sometimes Tony does doesn't stop him from being the best sergeant in this man's army yeah but what do we have to know we know the reds are out there so what are we gonna find out no kidding sergeant Tandish is this trip necessary you know men the trouble with us is we aren't in the movies you see in the movies if you want to know what the enemy's up to there are any number of things you can do the favorite one is to get a beautiful girl to sing in a cafe where the enemy generals hang out well out here we happen to be a little short of beautiful girls so we send out a patrol next question yeah but if it's so quiet why do we have to go out there and spoil everything city boy you know for the first time in your long and wasted life you spoke a word of common sense how soon we take it off Sarge the minute I get the word that the lines been alerted a patrol's going out I get rid of your letters from home your wallets the only identification on anyone is his dog tags now why do I tell you this isn't as though we haven't gone out on a few of these before you know I remember the first time I went out on a patrol brother here we go again hey starch the word is out okay thanks mercury hey murky let me your 45 oh listen man you think you're gonna do some fighting come on let it to him will you okay okay that I say no make sure you bring it back I assure you he'll be only too happy to bring it back I'm telling you now Pete if you fire it you're gonna have to clean it well gentlemen shall we fare for hey Pete no kidding bring back my 45 will you hey Jacob let's wait for Doc and Pete to come up I hope they could see me don't worry about those two oh yeah yeah they're coming where are we Sarge you know you make out the woods just ahead yeah I'd say it's about 30 yards some of them are dug in there it's too quiet I don't like it mm-hmm now you can appreciate what's bothering the old man figure they might have withdrawn not those babies you know we'll have to keep on our bellies same positions I'll be in front Jacob's on my left Pete on the right doc you in the reason why I could have sworn I heard that both I don't like keep low keep low those traces are way over our heads is he speculating or did he hear us I will soon find out Sarge I'm in a kind of furrow no it's a dried up creek bed okay that's good cover let's get into it Pete Jacobs move back to a doctor yeah I wonder where this thing leads seems to be curving toward their lines hey then red sure smells up we must have been spotted this patrol might be at an end right now we'd better try for the prisoner no sense coming back empty-handed we go in for a prisoner they're looking for us we won't go in we'll make one of them come out yeah lately fires again then Jacobs you put on an act let out a howl play it big my wife or we said I should have been an actor all right that girl is make sure the whole world here's your Jacobs you just cover your ears men well what's the matter with that clown well doesn't he shoot a meathead watch it though break the firing pin well come on you're not doing right by your buddy melon cop enough you're overdoing it what's gonna happen now now a volunteer is gonna come out either to bring you in or finish you off let's get set to jump in I think that was for good measure anyone come in Pete okay see a thing hey how'd I do all your performance was perfect but I'm afraid the audience didn't show up Sarge up ahead is that guy coming to us hey easy that's my public all right let's get set to give him an autograph hey he's got a long knife in his hand oh he's walking in the wrong direction give him a cue Jacobs here he comes he holds that night like he knows his score get set to jump out of my league now all right friend maybe you can't understand what I'm saying but you can understand this get moving keep low push him down down here all right down into the creek bed sorry I'm sorry I don't know how he did it but all of a sudden he just twisted away from me are you all right doc yeah I think she gave such a good performance though yeah it's too bad but we're all to blame we were too overconfident we low rated him what we do now Sarge hey look they're sending up flares all right if we keep low they won't be able to see us we can't jump out of here and go back now with those flares they'll see us playing this day you know it's a good thing you stumbled into this creek bed doc let's move forward forward why not they probably figure we're out hiding behind bushes trying to make our way back home it don't make sense for us to try to penetrate their lines now that's right it don't yeah yeah so that's why we're gonna do it come on follow me you are listening to the proudly we hail production for the kind will return in just a moment for the second act young man if you're interested in continuing your education 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a foxhole just off to our right one or two of them firing a rifle I think I hear something you hear speaks Chinese there's only one way to figure such sound of the me like some guys got into the hole and some guys got out and walked away that's right probably relieving that means that the two men who are in there now are supposed to stay there for a while you want to try to grab one of them and bring them back you know I may be wrong but that foxhole seems to be on higher ground on the rest of the terrain around it and maybe we could neutralize the two men in it we could see something from the top I think they got an entrance in the rear the guys who came in sound like they came in through the back yeah this is gonna be the hard part we'll have to crawl past the front of it to get around to the rear no sense in all four of us trying to get past all right I'll go and Jacob you're the smallest come with me right now Jacobs they just got there they're always not used to the dark yet okay that's where it's tough creek bed rises to ground level right now we're in the clear all right don't move Jacobs okay come on I think we're in back of them now it's over here such the entrance to the foxhole no no this is no good you have to crawl in there's only room for one of us at a time they'd be bound to hear us yeah of course hey we could roll a couple of grenades in there and that'll be the ballgame mm-hmm but that's not what we want to do someone's coming can he see us we can't afford to move just hug the ground and take a chance what is that all about I know these two just get here and this other fella comes and fetches him to go somewhere else meanwhile there's no one in the hall maybe they're all pulling out not these babies they're up to something all right you go around and get docking Pete what to make of this they're pulling out the men from all these foxholes and yet the men are leaving their equipment in the hole so they're not anybody on guard around here sergeant yeah there's one man in a hole about 50 feet to our right you can't see it but I know he's there where all these other jokers go looks to me as though they pulled out almost everybody for some reason you think maybe they're ganging up for a sneak attack no no I mean it doesn't have the feel of an attack those fellas look to me as though they were being assigned to a I don't know a detail of some come on front line troops pulling the details what's the matter you never heard of it hold him pull him out let him down easy why did he come from beats me I would just happen to be looking off to my left when somebody steps from behind a tree oh good work doc I don't think this one will get away such he looks like an officer to me wait no no he's not an officer I don't even think he's in their army he ain't the army what's he doing here he's wearing army type clothes he must be some kind of civilian specialist see what's in that pouch on his belt yeah yeah looks like a map case well it's too dark to try to see what it's all about okay let me have it what do we do about buster here side you ought to be out for quite a while let's leave him for the time being where to now I don't know what's up ahead there must be a whole gang of them around here somewhere oh man could I go for a cigarette yeah yeah that's an idea light one yeah never mind I'll do it who's got a match sorry you can't not just watch what happens I could live to be 150 I'll never understand that guy okay that's all I want to know see they figured one of their men got careless and lit a cigarette now we know where they are straight ahead hey Sarge you know we can push our luck just a little bit too far we're not pushing our luck doc it's pushing us no noise now I don't care if it takes an hour to travel 10 yards be careful Sarge Sarge you see anything sounds like they're digging in what's that rolling sound wheelbarrows wheelbarrows you know this must be where everyone from the line was must be digging new strong points I don't think so they're doing something on the ground you see those fellas with a wheelbarrows they're disappearing into that pit that big guy with a cloth around his head he's going into the pit I want to watch for him to come out hey maybe they discovered gold sure and it calling a war for what they dig for now I got an idea it sounds crazy but I can hardly wait to see what's in this pouch we took from that civilian I didn't see your boy come out of that pit yet Sarge yes here comes now new barris full of deck that looked like a big shot showed up a general at least how would you like to bring him back that lucky we ain't what are they doing here they are this is how it looked in New York when I was building the second way he saw just that a tunnel are they digging a tunnel toward our lines oh hey that sounds like the civilian how could he come to so fast he must have a head like a rock gentlemen I believe we've overstayed our welcome there's no place like home listen don't head directly for the line move along parallel to it all right let's go yeah get back to the same place we entered there's no one there do they see us they're just shooting on general principles hey I thought there was nobody supposed to be here Sarge all right we got him first that's a fox hole where we came in Sarge on the back of it let's try to find that creek bed yeah we'll need the cover hurry they'll have those flares up again in a second this way Sarge all right hit the ground man that was close they're going to flares mortars we're covered for gunfire but those mortars can find us let's get a move on shot no stay here those mortars are searching up ahead they figure we're heading home just stay here they won't drop any shells this close to their own line Sarge you know a guy can get killed out here yeah I know won't be light for four hours yet all we can do is wait how can I like our little war I I hope none of our guys got hit by all that shooting the patrol out there kid the fireworks were for them do do I know the fellas now squad from g company do you suppose any of them were hit way overdue patrol you know I've only been here one day and well this isn't so bad I mean we got good positions here but you mean guys just sneak out and try to get through the red lines exactly will we go on patrols too yeah there's no point thinking about that now anyway you get used to it say you suppose those guys from g company are okay Ferris Ferris straight ahead I hear something should I swing the gun around should I start shooting what do we do just take it easy just take it easy pull up hold back so she's ready to fire go on keep your hand off the trigger now what do we do just wait somebody's coming should we we give the password they give the counter side they don't then open up go ahead now give a password okay halt roller coaster on the oh it's Tandish from g company hey come on get in here your boys are out late yeah we stopped in for a couple of beers huh no man's been sweating you out they've been checking the line regular and where the reds doing out there plenty this civilian was evidently an engineer major there's no doubt about it so that's what they've been doing this map doesn't show much your man was probably in a subordinate position in charge of a very small section but it looked to you sergeant as though they were tunneling and yes sir it's a major project I'd say every available man is working away with a shovel and a wheelbarrow say you think they have an idea to mine our positions from underneath major well it's a good World War one tactic and we seem to be fighting the same kind of war position well as long as we're prepared for them I'll get all this information back to regiment they'll set up counter measures good work sergeant thank you sir that's beyond our way Kennedy you and your squad had better spend the rest of the night here standish troop see if you can get up a little chow and some more coffee yes well make yourselves comfortable I'm gonna turn in yeah your man couldn't sleep a wink while you were going he's a warrior the old man hey come on come on who's got the cards boys you can take it city boy listen you my luck has got a time hey where's my 45-caliber pistol yeah yeah Mercury hey you fired it all right give it back I'll clean it yeah fat chance I'll see it again I'll clean them myself some people are never satisfied do you want more coffee sergeant standish yeah thanks Mercury hey uh Sarge how was it how was it we went out we went in there was a big fuss we came back oh hey there must have been more mad you're supposed to be a writer Sarge come on you can describe it better than that all right all right listen to me the russet mantle of night covered the ravaged earth like an ominous shroud yeah that's more like huh steel helmeted rifles at the ready noiseless as shadows and only silent rocks to know they were drifting by two pair three eights pay me hey Sarge I beat them are you guys shut up now go ahead Sarge so the American patrol four of the infantry's best set out for a little unfriendly game of poker with the enemy only this wasn't penny anti stuff and if they hit the jackpot every time it's no accident because mr. four of our kind will always take nearly everything in the deck it shall not happen here that is the unspoken prayer of every man in the United States Army that is the unspoken reason for our growing military might but the time has come to speak the time has come to tell of that small phrase those five words it shall not happen here let us speak only to those young men of America who have not taken pause to think let's shout it in a voice that will reach into every city and village across the length and breadth of this great land young man you are needed you are needed to help preserve the peace you are needed to serve in your United States Army to ensure for your loved ones that it shall not happen here you are urged to visit your local United 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