John Ringo Alldenata 03 When The Devil Dances

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.As they approached them it was clear that most of them were halffilled with dirt and garbage, some of it blown in, but much of it dropped intothem by passersby.Many of the lines on the floor had peeled up and there wastrash all over the room, although clearly little of it was new."I think I know the real reason that it's nearly impossible for females to getin Ground Force these days,"Mosovich noted."But it's a nasty reason and you won't like it.""I've dealt with a lot of stuff I don't like," Wendy said."My life seems toconsist of dealing with stuff Idon't like.""In that case I think the casualties are the answer, two answers really,"Mosovich said."The first reason is that we're being bled white.We've lost about eightypercent of our productive-age male population.But even with combatcasualties, we've only lost about thirty of our productive-age females.""We're breeders," Wendy said."Yep," Mosovich agreed."The powers that be are obviously thinking that whenthe Posleen are kicked off planet, it won't do much good to have nobody leftbut a bunch of old women and a few children to'carry on.' So they're conserving the breeding population."Page 130ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"It takes two to tango," Shari pointed out, adjusting Shakeela's coat.Thebunker was quite cool compared to the underground city they had left and itwas clear that the fall had settled in up here."Where are the 'breeders' going to find.""Guys?" Mueller asked."It's not a nice answer, but it doesn't take many guysto make lots of babies, but it's a one for one ratio with women.""He's right," Mosovich said."It's not nice, but it true.That's only halfthe story, though.is"In the first wave there were massive conventional casualties.There was areal question whether we were going to hold everywhere and we didn't hold acouple of places.Losses among combat formations were huge.And there was a.a disparity in female losses versus male.Losses among women in combatunits were nearly equal to males, but they only comprised a third of the forceat the maximum."I read your whole packet, Captain," he continued doggedly."And I'd alreadyread a classified after-action report in which you were a minor bit player.You did a good job at the Monument, no question, but if it hadn't been forKeren, you'd be dead right now.And your.experiences in the retreat fromDale City are one of the classic egregious examples.""Who's Keren?" Elgars asked."And what do you mean by that?""Keren is a captain with the Ten Thousand," Mueller said as they reached thedoors.There were two sets with a chamber in between and they acted as partialairlocks, reducing the blast of wind that was trying to escape the bunker."Hewas in a mortar platoon near the rear of the retreat.He apparently picked youup during the retreat and you rode with him all the way to the Monument.""You'd been dumped by another unit," Mosovich said tightly.He turned left andheaded up the wide stairs on the exterior.There were two sets of those aswell, one on each side of the entrance.There was a walkway on the wallopposite the doors that joined them near the top.Running along the surface onthat side were small concrete combat positions, which were accessible from thewalkway.On the far side was an open area nearly two hundred meters across andthen a large parking lot filled with dirt covered cars and trucks and oneHumvee, parked on the grass on the verge."That was what happened to a good many females in that retreat and others.Some units returned with nearly one hundred percent female casualties versusfifty to sixty percent casualties among the males.""Well, the actual incidence of why she was dumped wasn't that high," Muellerpointed out."Why wasI 'dumped'?" the captain said carefully."You'd been raped," Mosovich said tightly."Then they took away your sniperrifle and dumped you with an AIW and a single magazine.""Oh," Elgars said."That's.annoying in a distant way [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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