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Navy & Marines · Page 5

Space Marine: Oh, you think my job is cool? Try police calling in zero gravity

By Duffel Blog Staff · Navy & Marines Bureau · 4 minutes

Filed 5 October 2022 · 1543

The following is a transcription of an unauthorized audio file embedded in a command chronology burst sent via retrans comm drone. The file was recorded by Lance Cpl. Bei Ming Ken of Orbital Drop Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines aboard USS Dakota Meyer IVO Algol Binary System.

The year is 2214.

Yeah, yeah, clap it up. The Marine Corps is still going strong, except for those four years we were cryogenically frozen during a government shutdown. And guess what?

It still fucking sucks.

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