Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 28, 2025

The trench is more effective—less risk of her husband catching you there!

You fellows would be in greater peril from Trumpty-Dumpty’s taking over the press than you would from the VC!

Bill O’Reilly watched all the combat of the Faulkland Islands war.

From his hotel room.

Any mention of an entrenching tool always triggers a memory of Firesign Theatre. “Don’t eat with your hands, son; use your entrenching tool.”

Check the hotel walls for bullet penetration from outside. It won’t stop 50 BMG and larger rounds.

Never dig a foxhole when there are combat engineers around to help you fashion one.

From what I saw on Generation Kill on HBO, the primary use of the entrenching too was to dig a hole to take a dump in.

…a brown nose is today’s political entrenchment tool…

Who needs field reporters when you can just send in the drones?

The entrenching tool is a multi-use instrument. It’s primary use is to dig a hole. The reason for the hole varies. Bodily functions are sometimes more prevalent while taking incoming, so dual use is another trait. Also, many an enemy has been dispatched using an entrenching tool. A bit more messy, but better than the alternatives.

I see the worthless troll half-a-halfling is at it again. Could we please just ignore it?

Just make sure your enemy does NOT have machine guns if you decide to attack their position

To misquote George Patton, “(pundits) don’t know any more about real battle than they do about f*rnic@ting.”

Yeah, this is a pretty funny & silly storyline from these characters at this point in time……… time the avenger tick .. tick .. tick.. ;-)

“….Distance is also your friend. The further you are from the action, the better off you are. In fact the best way to survive a war is to avoid one.’

BD: You’re a pundit, right?

Pundit: Yessir! 101st Keyboarders, sir!

Maxim 44: If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool.

The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries