"I get maudlin after two beers? There's a reason I'm usually the DD. Jacobs didn't tell you that? Or, well. That'd be Martinez. Or Chao. Or Sodi- Lemme retroactively apologize for them. Having fourteen marines close in on you and talk a guy up must be. Weird." Not so weird he didn't go for it, Taylor notes, but. Weird none the less.

It's just his life. His boys, his squad, the mission- and this nice house and nice guy to spend the next few hours with. Or night if he's lucky.