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Major.
What are you doing here? I thought combat stress wasn't due till next week.
It's nice to see you too!
It's nice to see you major. It's been a while.
How do you not age a day, Jo?
I made a pact with the devil.
Yeah, I made that pact too and look what he did to me.
You're not doing so badly, Paul.
Stone, Stone, Stone.
Milgram, Milgram, Milgram.
Stone. Jo Stone what a name.
What you gonna do sit around here and say each other's names all day.
You know I asked them to transfer me here permanently.
Well you'd be here alone, we're on our way out.
Yeah, yeah I saw the burn pit.
Yeah, can't leave it all behind.
It's true you can't. You can't leave it all behind
I have to eliminate all the traces. It'll be like we were never here.
Can't eliminate the memories.
No, you can't.
Of any of it. Of the bad or the good.
Paul.
Jo.
We agreed not to.
And I'm not.
Good.
It's just, I couldn't help contemplating on my way over here.
There is nothing to contemplate.
It was a while ago.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Not even a trace?
Not a trace.
How's your wife?
Ah she left me on my last trip home, It took her twenty-four hours.
She said you were married to ten thousand men in the valley of death.
All I could do is agree with her. So, I am available you wanna do something?
You wanna play chess or something later?
No. Thank you.
I need water. Do you have water?
Meds?
Yeah.
My heart is wearing out.
Jesus, how do you deal with the smell?
That's what the word draw down smells like.
You know, it may not be such a bad thing guys I see I gotta tell ya they need a break.
Yes, they do.
I drop in on some small post in a mountain, I see these guys they just blow me away.
I ask them how they're doing? And they just say they're fine.
How the *** are you sittin' a few hundred feet from Johnny Taliban.
Who's just lying in the grass with an IED up his ***, and say you're fine.
And they're not staying here for the President, or for the war, or for the *** Taliban.
Staying for each other, and I'm seeing these kids get injured. It's killing me.
It's literally killing me.
You okay?
Just wearing out.
My heart, my head, everything. All I hear are horror stories.
I'd like to hear a *** love story once in a while.
You might be able to Google the Lifetime Network if the connection is good today.
See you're funny, you're funny. You don't get enough credit for that.
Leave those men on the hilltops just to come here and ask me if I wanted to play chess.
I am so transparent.
Seriously, why are you here?
I was requested to do an evaluation on a soldier under your command.
Lauren Weil.
That's the one.
Who ordered it?
Harold, he was the one who contacted me.
What he say?
There is a soldier who needs an evaluation.
Nothing else?
Not really.
Not really.
What do you know about her?
Here's her file.
Great, could you be more organized?
Ah, Harold intimated that you may be a little, well, preoccupied.
In this case.
Meaning?
That's all he said.
He thought maybe for whatever reason you were preoccupied.
Huh, that's ridiculous.
I'm just saying, maybe not all traces can be burned away like soldiers' trash.
You are referring to personal information about me.
I'm just saying!
That should never be used to undermine…
We all keep our guard up.
No, wait? Guard?
At some point it stops being a guard. It becomes who we are.
This isn't personal.
Everything is personal. Everything.
See ya tomorrow.