Re: M8: Operation: Beach head (Epilogue)
OOC: Sorry to be late to the party, but been busy...writing on my phone now....
If anyone had any doubtsa that the company commander's head could get really big, those were summarily refuted. In the days following the operation to take the Starport, Captain Hinklemeyer-Schmidt went to an extreme to let everyone know how HE had made the right strategic call and how HE had directed his unit into successful action. It was, as if, no one else were there and the higher brass--including the late captain of the company--had nothing to do with anything. On top of that, he had been sure to describe the noble conduct of the whole engagement with the gentlemanly negotiations at the end of the action for the enemy to withdraw, making it an extended, perfumed duel of some sort.
All of this rubbed the rest of the company, needless to say, the wrong way. To add to the humiliation, the captain had been sure to illustrate fully how he had helped to protect his unit...to extent that other members of the brigade took to calling the 6th Recon Company "Hinklemeyer-Schmidt's toy soldiers". They were...probably...not happy. All of this was possible, of course, because the captain's own mech was unscathed and he seemingly had little to do.
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