TCM--Turner Classic Movies- just watched a film I saved on DVR--The Mountain Road, starring Jimmy Stewart as Major Baldwin, Harry Morgan as his top sergent, and a handful of US Army Demolition Specialists in WW2 China given the task of destroying anything the advancing Japanese Army might find useful, as well as bridges, roads and other structures whose removal would delay the enemy. A retreating unit, interacting with an unfamiliar and at times problematic populace and its (supposedly) friendly and cooperative military, constant potential of bandit ambush or enemy contact, language and cultural differences, and a mission that not everyone is enthusiastic about. Did I mention the sick GI who is a constant drag on the unit and of no functional use to the mission? or having to switch interpreters when something happens to yours? Or the pretty intense assault on an enemy (but _not_ Japanese) position? This tight little film has a lot to steal from for a campaign.
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"Let's roll." Todd Beamer, aboard United Flight 93 over western Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001.
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