Author Note:
Using Agent Miles' suggested system, I will try (key word) to effectively and correctly emulate military talk. While his notes have been helpful, when referencing numbers I will continue using regular one, two, three, four.
Otherwise...
Quote Originally Posted by Agent Miles
Each combat unit has its own call sign. A platoon call sign might be Nightstalker. Then the platoon’s four squads would be Nightstalker one through four, respectively. Nightstalker five would be the platoon sergeant (Plat’ Daddy) and the six element would be the platoon leader. For companies and above, the first four elements are for the staff sections (admin, security, operations and supply), five is the First Sergeant (1SG) or Command Sergeant Major (CSM) and the six is the unit commander. Thus, Household Six might then be a nickname for a soldier’s spouse and Heaven Six would, of course, be God. Your unit is issued an SOI (Signal Operating Instruction) that has all the call signs and frequencies (“freeks”) that you would need.
The Red Blanket

"Saltshaker Four, Saltshaker Five. 0400 Report. Over."

"Saltshaker Five, Saltshaker Four, our squad moved from Golf-Golf-Two to Golf-Golf-Three, and we..."

Silence

"Saltshaker Four, report?"

"We got, a, a, uh, Saltshaker Five."

"What is it Saltshaker Four?"

"Have you contacted Saltshaker Three yet?"

"Yes, they were moving from Golf-Golf-Three to Golf-Golf-Four. Caught them moving through Hainburg. "

"We found Saltshaker Three."

Silence

"What do you mean you found Saltshaker Three?"

"We (voices in the background) SHUT UP!"

"Saltshaker Four?"

"The bloody (voices in the background)"

"Saltshaker Four what is going on? Do we need to drop some napalm or fly recon?"

"There was (voices in the background) WILL YOU BE QUIET! Do you need aid? No! I've got the sergeant on the horn. He'll know what to do."

"Saltshaker Four what the hell is going on! Unless I get some answers..."

"Sarge, we got Saltshaker Three here. All of them."

Silence

"What do you mean, all of them?"

"Alive, sir. We got them all, alive."




"So, Sergeant Domenic, you found the entire third squad, naked, in the forest?" The Humvee was jumping and jittering across the Washington roads, buttoned and cratered by bombs and shells. Inside Captain Youngton and Domenic talked in the back.
"Well, evidently, the squad corporal is a joker, and a bad one. If he wasn't so good with a gun, he'd be in some jail cell. He was the cook, dropped some sleeping cell tablets in their food. The squad dropped to sleep. He then stripped them to their boxers, tied them to a tree, and left them there. When Saltshaker Four found the squad, well, they were surprised, to say the least."
"We fight a war, and we have these jokers."

"War makes strange bedfellows."