Grrl Power #1304 - Triple A...ir Force
Added 2024-11-14 11:00:10 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
While Maxima certainly has strong feelings about things like burqas (niqabs, hijabs, etc.) she also has strong feelings about reflecting bright desert sunlight 20 miles away, and revealing the nature of her classified existence while in the field. Also, if you get a bunch of special forces guys to wear niqabs, then suddenly they're called shemaugs, and they're cool.
As far as I'm aware, BDU's, or possibly ABUs, which were eventually replaced by ACUs, (which used UCP, to be replaced by OCP (Not the Robocop company)) only have the rank chevron thingy in the centerline of the torso, kind of between the man-boobs, and slightly higher on those equipped with lady boobs. It's not on the sleeve patches, and I don't think it's on the back anywhere. It'd be wasted on the back, since I assume almost anyone in the field would have something slung over their back, be it a rifle or a pack of some kind, even an officer. Obviously Peggy sees that Max is a Major (at this point in time) when Max turns around and leans over her, but when Max is standing with her back to Peggy, there's not really a way for her to know what rank Max is. I wonder if there's ever a situation in the military where a bunch of people are meeting each other for the first time, and they have to juke around to see what each others' ranks are so they can establish pecking order. Like if they're all carrying gear and straps and whatever is in the way. Or do they just call out like "E1!" "E3 over here!" "E7, hah hah, suckers!" "O3 here! I win!"
Of course, I'm sure military people are well conditioned for when someone yells out "SitRep!" they just respond instead of going "Ah, ah ah! Simon didn't say so! Papers please!" Maxima does also have a fairly commanding presence, and also just bitchslapped a technical past the 100 yard line.
BTW, the slice across Peggy's face actually cut into her nasal passages, but I didn't feel like writing a bunch of "I mebt to boo bat." dialog for her, or draw panels of her sneezing blood out in a really... interesting pattern.
Comments
Does Peggy have a Medal of Honor yet? A shot like that under those conditions witnessed by an officer should be a slam dunk.
Marc Vun Kannon
2024-11-18 14:08:45 +0000 UTCIs this a bad time to point out that Max should totally know she needs to put a tourniquet on Peggy's leg before she lifts that helicopter?
Sogen
2024-11-17 02:35:55 +0000 UTCI'd definitely agree pain tolerance is a thing. I've had a history of migraines my whole life, of which I usually can't do anything about once they are fully involved, but can sometimes head off with some excedrin a short lay down. I've had far less problem walking off more physical injuries because it just doesn't compare to a fully involved migraine. Regular headaches I can somewhat ignore but a fully involved migraine can give me vertigo and feel like I have a metal press crushing my skull.
Chris Inglish
2024-11-16 11:47:57 +0000 UTCI loved those combat shirts... :D
Jared Juetten
2024-11-15 22:55:59 +0000 UTCWith her blood being purple the Blood Type field might just read “???”
Steve M
2024-11-15 11:37:21 +0000 UTCWhat Max is going for is a field medical kit. That has tourniquets.
eddi_TBH
2024-11-15 03:57:59 +0000 UTCYa know, I've always said that about the people in movies and TV that are dodging and running too fast to hit. And then they jump. They should be dead at that point, because now they are on a predictable arc at near fixed speed, and as long as they don't have flight powers or anything, they have no way to change it until they can touch an object and change their vector. Any shooter trained in hitting a moving target (which would probably include many hunters as well as soldiers) should be able to tag them at that point. Now in Peggy's case, that is a pretty small target, and the arc is relatively small, but the principle is sound. But there was probably a little luck involved.
Eric Loken
2024-11-15 03:57:07 +0000 UTCFor those who have not yet seen it. This explains a whooooole lot of things. https://skippyslist.com/list/
eddi_TBH
2024-11-15 03:55:27 +0000 UTCBroke my elbow about ten years back, I could barely see for the first 5 minutes or so. Could talk and walk though, well, someone was helping me walk for the first few minutes. After a while it became more just an ache, although I'm told I was kinda in shock. But the most pain I ever had was a kidney bullet (12 mm x 6 mm, about the size of a .22 LR slug) and I could function with that... mostly. Not that it was fun. In that case the biggest problem was that it just didn't go away. It never turned into just a distant ache, it stayed at the same level, or increasing until I was finally able to get some morphine injected. I've been told I have high pain tolerance, probably as a result of the above events. "Does it beat breaking the ends off both the ulna and radius? Does it beat the kidney bullet? No? Pfft. Then it's nothing." How people react to pain is variable, different from person to person, and situation to situation. And adrenaline certainly can change the equation (it's actually the point, take all the limiters off, numb all pain, let you get through the next few minutes and deal with the rest later).
Eric Loken
2024-11-15 03:51:17 +0000 UTCNeat.
Eric Loken
2024-11-15 03:43:52 +0000 UTC@Mark - That was kind of Max’s entire point re: the lecture on why she carries a big gun, which is what Town Crier was referring to
KnightRider007
2024-11-14 20:16:45 +0000 UTChttps://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn11.bigcommerce.com%2Fs-fbf9fj8y5r%2Fimages%2Fstencil%2F1280x1280%2Fproducts%2F318%2F2163%2F90623a2a-1f82-4c02-8bc0-5e497aef0ab6__31481.1677211820.jpg%3Fc%3D1&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=0543439e9fa047e47bd86dddaf4ceb92b9678805ad34f7a82c3651587cc8f530&ipo=images Something like that
Jared Juetten
2024-11-14 16:45:16 +0000 UTCA JSOC patch might also make Peggy immediately say "Ma'am!!" so that's something to keep in mind. And those go on the shoulders, if at all. More than likely, Max should have no rank, name, or unit patches on and just have a callsign patch on the shoulder with her blood type (though that might be classified also). She can always just tell people she's a Major and general military personnel will kind of accept it. Or she can say she's in charge of special ops in the AO (Area of Operations) and that's just as good or better than any rank patch.
Jared Juetten
2024-11-14 16:44:03 +0000 UTCThere is a reason why the U.S. Military has a mountain range of rules about things you DON'T do, all because of a bored E-4 somewhere doing something "Hold my beer and watch this!"-like sometime in the past. Also, The Fat Electrician has a shirt that needs to be kept a long ways away from most U.S. Military E-4's. It says "It's never a war crime the first time."
Anton Schleef
2024-11-14 15:41:09 +0000 UTC"Max made a pew-pew at Peggy, in the last frame, and Peggy didn't even flinch." At this point I think all Peggy knows of Max is that she's superhumanly strong and can fly. I don't think she knows about Max's energy attack, so why would she flinch? After she knows, perhaps flinching would be appropriate. Though even then I assume Max has much more control over it than the most controllable firearm could ever hope to be.
Mark Magagna
2024-11-14 14:36:48 +0000 UTCThank you to everybody who replied :) @Justaguy, I am glad you survived and I salute you for the recovery you made. Recovery can be the worst part, especially in the aftermath of serious trauma.
Simon Magid
2024-11-14 14:26:54 +0000 UTCYou're very right about soldiers with lots of straps in the way shuffling around to see each other's rank, or just asking each other. But we also have name tapes on the back of the hat. I've also seen some configurations where we put a name tape on the shoulder, when we're allowed a combat shirt. A combat shirt was kinda like an underarmor spandex shirt on the chest, but bulkier arms with pockets on them like a regular blouse. It's better in the heat while wearing a plate carrier over your chest
Nathan Wilson
2024-11-14 14:20:02 +0000 UTCLGOPs!!!!
John Van Stry
2024-11-14 14:18:22 +0000 UTCI have a friend who was in the Army 'doing things' in the ME and Africa well back before any of the current middle eastern unpleasantness (before the year 2000). He's always called them shemaghs/keffiyahs and the US Army ones are either black and green or black and khaki.
John Van Stry
2024-11-14 14:16:33 +0000 UTCIf you had had a farm wife, she would have sent you in to see the doctor, and they would have known it was serious without needing to x-ray. Farm wives are awesome that way.
Town Crier
2024-11-14 13:39:08 +0000 UTCTwo things: One; you learn to shoot on the bounce when hunting jack rabbits and the like, and B; See, Sydney? Max made a pew-pew at Peggy, in the last frame, and Peggy didn't even flinch. This is why Max has to use a big handgun for intimidation purposes. On a completely unrelated note, being the highest rank, especially an officer, is not a win, because it is now your job to restrain your subordinates. The U.S. military is well known for the their troops', especially of E-4 rank or there-abouts, initiative and can-do attitude. Where other militaries need the officers to encourage their subordinates to step up and do battle, American officers are there to reduce the chances of total battle field wipe with high chances of, often hilarious (to the troops dark sense of humor) war crimes. As a former Infantry platoon leader, I can recall, off the record, several instances wherein I summoned my platoon sergeant in order to point him at a knot of troops, usually with an E4 or E5 in the middle, sniggering as they performed unspeakable acts in preparation and anticipation of enemy engagement, with the express order of "Break up those shenanigans before I am forced to lie before a military tribunal to save their careers/lives, please. You know how I prefer to save my lies for my big eff-ups, Sergeant. I'm selfish that way." Sergeants are really handy that way.
Town Crier
2024-11-14 13:22:29 +0000 UTCI broke my leg back in March. Hurt like hell the first couple of days, but i thought it was a high ankle sprain, so I kept icing it and walking on it. I was even walking the dog, and he weighs 60 lbs. Now, I wasn't moving fast, but I was able to move around - limping - at a surprisingly good pace. Then, after a couple of weeks when the pain didn't completely subside, I went to the doctor and they X-rayed it. "Oh, that's not a sprain. That's very broken. How the hell were you walking around on that?" I think I just shrugged. Moral of the story: as has been said, is pain tolerance is definitely a thing, and different people have different levels of it and you'd be surprised what people can do under pail :)
Michael Obert
2024-11-14 13:14:27 +0000 UTCGlad to see Max in her real OCPs. Not that Peggy's depiction wasn't terrific, but a little bit of realism can make a whole lot of fantasy easy to swallow. I am keen to see the next strip. Releasing trapped limbs is a medical emergency in a couple of ways.
Greg Morrow
2024-11-14 13:05:33 +0000 UTCSmall typo in the second to last frame. "I'll dig the field kit from wreck...." I'm guessing it should be "... From the wreck..." or even better: "... From this wreck..."
Whoriar
2024-11-14 11:26:42 +0000 UTCThere's also the "It hurts like hell, but if I don't move it hurts a "little" less and that difference I can mentally lock onto and lets me focus. (Personal experience from a wreck that REALLY fucked me up 20 years ago. (Like much of my body still doesn't work right level of fucked up.))
Justaguy
2024-11-14 11:24:42 +0000 UTCAdrenaline, endorphins, high pain threshold, training, and simply focusing on other things can really get a person through a lot more than one might expect. I've heard of people with broken bones or deep stab wounds not even realizing they're injured because of how focused on a given task they are. Plus a concussion might, hypothetically, interfere with pain reception depending on what part of the brain got damaged.
Jacob Bissey
2024-11-14 11:16:32 +0000 UTCIt's also not the worst thing in the world to have Peggy relay what happened. Forces her to focus by engaging in ingrained procedures/behaviors and might help mitigate some of the shock. That and, uh, Peggy's a BADASS.
Michael Obert
2024-11-14 11:13:54 +0000 UTCMay I just mention that it is amazing to me that Peggy can even work and talk through all that pain. I know trained soldiers with high pain threshold can do amazing things, mind you. But knowing that doesn't make it any less amazing to me. /o
Simon Magid
2024-11-14 11:08:27 +0000 UTC
