#Flying Leathernecks

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USMC Pilot from VMFA-122 "Flying Leathernecks" climbing into his F-35B at Nellis AFB, Nevada

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Robert Ryan

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Old naval slang

A small collection of terms from the 18th - early 20th century that were and probably still are known among sailors.

Admiralty Ham - Royal Navy canned fish Batten your hatch - shut up Beachcomber - a good-for-nothing Cape Horn Fever - feigned illness Cheeseparer - a cheat Claw off - to avoid an embarrassing question or argument Cockbilled - drunk Cumshaw - small craft - Chinese version of scrimshaw Dead Marine - empty liquor bottle Donkey's Breakfast - mattress filled with straw Dunnage - personal equipment of a sailor Flying Fish sailor - sailor stationed in Asian waters Galley yarn - rumour, story Hog yoke- sextant Holy Joe - ship's chaplain Irish hurricane- dead calm Irish pennant - frayed line or piece of clothing Jamaican discipline - unruly behaviour Knock galley west - to knock a person out Leatherneck - a marine Limey - a British sailor Liverpool pennant - a piece of string used to replace a lost button Loaded to the guards - drunk Old Man - captain of the ship One and only - the sailor's best girl On the beach - ashore without a berth Pale Ale - drinking water Quarterdeck voice - the voice of authority Railroad Pants - uniform trousers with braid on the outer leg seam Railway tracks - badge of a first lieutenant Round bottomed chest - sea bag Schooner on the rocks - roast beef and roast potatoes Show a leg - rise and shine Sling it over - pass it to me Slip his cable - die Sundowner - unreasonable tough officer Swallow the anchor - retire Sweat the glass - shake the hour glass to make the time on watch pass quickly - strictly forbidden ! Tops'l buster - strong gale Trim the dish - balance the ship so that it sails on an even keel Turnpike sailor - beggar ashore, a landlubber claiming to be an old sailor in distress Water bewitched - weak tea White rat - sailor who curries favor with the officers

Sailors' Language, by W. Clark Russell, 1883 Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Edward Fraser and John Gibbons, 1925 Sea Slang, by Frank C. Bowen, 1929 Royal Navalese, by Commander John Irving, 1946 Sea Slang of the 20th century, by Wilfried Granville, 1949 The Sailor's Word Book, by Admiral W.H. Smyth, 1967

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600 words written today -- you'll be thrilled to know I wrote the one of these no one asked for, because I gotta be me. (This always happens. I might do more than one, though.) Brain definitely slowly recovering from the last month, which you can tell by the fact I went on a SW rant. Went down to the library to renew my library card; I am in that library very seldom (the last time I was there was when I got my library card).

Snippet from Reaches Past These Ghosts chapter 3. (See? I remember it exists.)

He had flown straight here in the War Machine suit and the rest of his gear was still back in Camp Leatherneck.  Rhodey was just hoping he would see it again sometime, though since it had been left in the tender hands of the United States Marine Corps he wasn’t feeling particularly sanguine about that.  SHIELD had somehow produced a set of ABUs in his size, complete with his name tape and rank insignia; the clothes had the presumably-unintended effect of making him feel a little paranoid, though that might have been the lack of sleep.  What Rhodey wanted was a shower, a nap, and a meal; he hadn’t gotten any of those. “Hey, man,” he said, and Tony looked up and grinned at the sight of him. “They drag you into this goat rodeo too?” “Apparently it’s ‘a matter of vital planetary security,’” Tony said, making air quotes around the words.  “And a ‘national tragedy,’ which I guess means Captain Spangles is involved somehow.  It figures.” “Captain – what?”  Maybe it was the sleep deprivation or the intercontinental flight, because even Rhodey’s experience at translating from Tony to English failed him. “What, you didn’t do the homework?” “You know, two hours ago I was in Afghanistan,” Rhodey told him meaningfully. “Out in the middle of nowhere, when all of a sudden my CO calls and says that SHIELD, in their high-handed wisdom, says that I have to go their secret flying whatever-the-hell-this-is right now.  So no, Tony, I didn’t do the homework.”

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Holidays 8.28

Holidays

Bow Tie Day

Crackers Over the Keyboard Day

Criminal Appreciation Day

Crumbs Between the Keys Day

Dream Day Quest and Jubilee

828 Day

Emerati Women’s Day (UAE)

Emmett Till Day

End of the Fairy Tale Day

Giving Black Day (a.k.a. Give 828)

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Green Shirt Guy Day

I Have a Dream Day

International Read Comics in Public Day

Manifest 828 Day

Mariamoba (Republic of Georgia)

National Bow Tie Day

National Grandparents Day (Mexico)

National Over It Day

National Power Rangers Day

National Thoughtful Day

Nativity of Nephthys (Egyptian Goddess of Love)

Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day

Radio Commercial Day

Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

Russian Germans Day (Germany)

Scientific American Day

Significant Historical Events Day

Tan Suit Day

Watermelon Day (French Republic)

World Day of Turners Syndrome

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cheese Sacrifice Day

National Cherry Turnover Day

National Red Wine Day

Stuffed Green Bell Peppers Day

Subway Sandwich Day

4th & Last Monday in August

Araw ng mga Bayani (National Heroes’ Day; Philippines) [Last Monday]

August/Summer Bank Holiday (UK) [Last Monday]

International Day of Cyber Attack Ceasefire [Last Monday]

Liberation Day (Hong Kong) [Last Monday]

Motorist Consideration Monday [Monday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Notting Hill Carnival (UK) [Last Monday & day before]

Social Justice Day (Antarctica) [4th Monday]

Independence Days

Holy Empire of Reunion (Declared; 1997) [unrecognized]

Luana (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Moldova (from USSR; 1991)

Ohio Empire (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Alexander of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Abkhazia)

Augustine of Hippo (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *

Ayyankali Jayanti (Kerala, India)

Constant Troyon (Artology)

Edmund Arrowsmith (Christian; Saint)

Edward Burne-Jones (Artology)

Feast of the Mother of God (Georgia, Macedonia, Serbia)

Festival for Luna (Ancient Rome)

Festival for Sol (Ancient Rome)

Festival of the Neon Revolution

First Onam (Rice Harvest Festival; Kerala, India)

Frank Gorshin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Hermes of Rome (Christian; Saint)

Julian (Christian; Saint)

Junipero Serra (Christian; Saint)

Marimba (Virgin’s Assumption; Georgia)

Mariotte (Positivist; Saint)

Media Aestas III (Pagan)

More Rum Day (Pastafarian)

Moses the Black (Christian; Saint)

Uncle Norton the Elephant (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 40 of 60)

Premieres

Animal Crackers (Film; 1930)

Cain's Jawbone, by E. Powys Mathers (Novel/Puzzle; 1934)

Come Clean, by Puddle of Mudd (Album; 2001)

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Novel; 1844)

Do the Evolution, by Pearl Jam (Animated Music Video; 1998)

54 (Film; 1998)

Flying Leathernecks (Film; 1951)

Gallipoli (Film; 1981)

Get Rich Quick Porky (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)

Honeymoon in Vegas (Film; 1992)

I Have a Dream, by Martin Luther King Jr. (Speech; 1963)

Let’s Get It On, by Marvin Gaye (Album; 1973)

Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1850)

Mary of Scotland (Film; 1936)

Mickey’s Follies (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV Series; 1993)

Narcos (TV Series; 2015)

The New Mutants (Film; 2020)

Perri (Disney Film; 1957)

Personal, 19th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2014)

Phineas and Verb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (Animated Film; 2020)

Private Lessons (Film; 1981)

Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, by Devo (Album; 1978)

Rope (Film; 1948)

Smile, by Katy Perry (Album; 2020)

Song of the Thin Man (Film; 1947)

Studio 54 (Film; 1998)

Tease for Two (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)

Travelling Without Moving, by Jamiroquai (Album; 1996)

The Truth About Mother Goose (Disney Cartoon; 1957)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Film; 1992)

Victoria (TV Series; 2016)

Walk This Way by Aerosmith (Song; 1975)

Yankee Doodle Bugs (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)

Today’s Name Days

Adelinde, Aline, Augustin (Austria)

Augustin, Tin (Croatia)

Augustýn (Czech Republic)

Augustinus (Denmark)

August, Gustav, Kustas, Kustav, Kusti, Kusto (Estonia)

Tauno (Finland)

Augustin, Elouan (France)

Adelinde, Aline, Augustin, Vivian (Germany)

Damon (Greece)

Ágoston (Hungary)

Agostino, Ermete (Italy)

Auguste, Guste, Ranna (Latvia)

Augustinas, Patricija, Steigvilė, Tarvilas (Lithuania)

Artur, August (Norway)

Adelina, Aleksander, Aleksy, Augustyn, Patrycja, Sobiesław, Stronisław (Poland)

Augustín (Slovakia)

Agustín (Spain)

Fatima, Leila (Sweden)

Agustin, August, Augusta, Augustina, Austen, Austin, Austina, Austyn, Gus, Gustava, Gustavo (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 240 of 2024; 125 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 35 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 13 (Wu-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Elul 5783

Islamic: 11 Safar 1445

J Cal: 30 Hasa; Nineday [30 of 30]

Julian: 15 August 2023

Moon: 92%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 16 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Mariotte]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 68 of 94)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 7 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Rad (Motion) [Half-Month 17 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 9.9)

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WEEK FOUR - 1/48 Kitty Hawk AH-1Z “Viper” – Turrets and Fuselage Details

This week I built up and detailed the TSS and gun turret. The TSS was replaced with the Flying Leathernecks resin set and the gun barrels were replaced with Model Master brass versions. I am now finishing the rest of the fuselage. Landing skids and exhaust section are detailed and mounted. I am now working on the side wings that support the weapons. You can see more photos and details from the…

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John Wayne, Robert Ryan Flying Leathernecks

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Fridays on the Farm: Grounded on the Ranch

This Friday meet Jim McClain, Marine Corps veteran and owner of Flying Leatherneck Ranch in North, South Carolina, where he grows hay and raises 100 head of beef cattle on 600 acres of beautiful, rolling hills. Jim decided to get back to his farming roots after years of serving in the Marine Corps as a flyer, infantry officer, and public affairs officer, as well as working as a senior vice…

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Flying Leathernecks Released in October

Flying Leathernecks released this month a few 1:48 scale sets 3D-printed and paint masks. New masks will be released in mid-late November. This set also includes wheel and canopy masks. The PMBR is attached to print supports due to some components being fragile. Use a fine tipped sprue cutter to carefully remove the supports from the parts. Used on the A-4 and TA-4 Skyhawk, OV-10 Bronco, P-3…

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12/26

Benny's Bathtub (Blu Ray only) Butcher's Crossing The Christmas Martian (Blu Ray only) The Death Of Andy Kaufman/ The Electric Chair Fremont Journey To The West (Blu Ray only) The Runner ('22 DVD & Blu Ray) The Square ('13) Super Xuxa Vs. Satan (Blu Ray only) Tales From The Quadead Zone: Undead (Blu Ray only) They Were Expendable/ Flying Leathernecks The Yards/ Ordinary Decent Criminal/My Name Is Modesty/ Best Of The Best: Without Warning

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USMC F-35B - VMFA 122 - RWY 26 - NAF El Centro

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Holidays 8.28

Holidays

Bow Tie Day

Crackers Over the Keyboard Day

Criminal Appreciation Day

Crumbs Between the Keys Day

Dream Day Quest and Jubilee

828 Day

Emerati Women’s Day (UAE)

Emmett Till Day

End of the Fairy Tale Day

Giving Black Day (a.k.a. Give 828)

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Green Shirt Guy Day

I Have a Dream Day

International Read Comics in Public Day

Manifest 828 Day

Mariamoba (Republic of Georgia)

National Bow Tie Day

National Grandparents Day (Mexico)

National Over It Day

National Power Rangers Day

National Thoughtful Day

Nativity of Nephthys (Egyptian Goddess of Love)

Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day

Radio Commercial Day

Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

Russian Germans Day (Germany)

Scientific American Day

Significant Historical Events Day

Tan Suit Day

Watermelon Day (French Republic)

World Day of Turners Syndrome

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Cheese Sacrifice Day

National Cherry Turnover Day

National Red Wine Day

Stuffed Green Bell Peppers Day

Subway Sandwich Day

4th & Last Monday in August

Araw ng mga Bayani (National Heroes’ Day; Philippines) [Last Monday]

August/Summer Bank Holiday (UK) [Last Monday]

International Day of Cyber Attack Ceasefire [Last Monday]

Liberation Day (Hong Kong) [Last Monday]

Motorist Consideration Monday [Monday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Notting Hill Carnival (UK) [Last Monday & day before]

Social Justice Day (Antarctica) [4th Monday]

Independence Days

Holy Empire of Reunion (Declared; 1997) [unrecognized]

Luana (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Moldova (from USSR; 1991)

Ohio Empire (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Alexander of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Abkhazia)

Augustine of Hippo (Christian; Saint) [brewers] *

Ayyankali Jayanti (Kerala, India)

Constant Troyon (Artology)

Edmund Arrowsmith (Christian; Saint)

Edward Burne-Jones (Artology)

Feast of the Mother of God (Georgia, Macedonia, Serbia)

Festival for Luna (Ancient Rome)

Festival for Sol (Ancient Rome)

Festival of the Neon Revolution

First Onam (Rice Harvest Festival; Kerala, India)

Frank Gorshin Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Hermes of Rome (Christian; Saint)

Julian (Christian; Saint)

Junipero Serra (Christian; Saint)

Marimba (Virgin’s Assumption; Georgia)

Mariotte (Positivist; Saint)

Media Aestas III (Pagan)

More Rum Day (Pastafarian)

Moses the Black (Christian; Saint)

Uncle Norton the Elephant (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 40 of 60)

Premieres

Animal Crackers (Film; 1930)

Cain's Jawbone, by E. Powys Mathers (Novel/Puzzle; 1934)

Come Clean, by Puddle of Mudd (Album; 2001)

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Novel; 1844)

Do the Evolution, by Pearl Jam (Animated Music Video; 1998)

54 (Film; 1998)

Flying Leathernecks (Film; 1951)

Gallipoli (Film; 1981)

Get Rich Quick Porky (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)

Honeymoon in Vegas (Film; 1992)

I Have a Dream, by Martin Luther King Jr. (Speech; 1963)

Let’s Get It On, by Marvin Gaye (Album; 1973)

Lohengrin, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1850)

Mary of Scotland (Film; 1936)

Mickey’s Follies (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV Series; 1993)

Narcos (TV Series; 2015)

The New Mutants (Film; 2020)

Perri (Disney Film; 1957)

Personal, 19th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2014)

Phineas and Verb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (Animated Film; 2020)

Private Lessons (Film; 1981)

Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, by Devo (Album; 1978)

Rope (Film; 1948)

Smile, by Katy Perry (Album; 2020)

Song of the Thin Man (Film; 1947)

Studio 54 (Film; 1998)

Tease for Two (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)

Travelling Without Moving, by Jamiroquai (Album; 1996)

The Truth About Mother Goose (Disney Cartoon; 1957)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Film; 1992)

Victoria (TV Series; 2016)

Walk This Way by Aerosmith (Song; 1975)

Yankee Doodle Bugs (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)

Today’s Name Days

Adelinde, Aline, Augustin (Austria)

Augustin, Tin (Croatia)

Augustýn (Czech Republic)

Augustinus (Denmark)

August, Gustav, Kustas, Kustav, Kusti, Kusto (Estonia)

Tauno (Finland)

Augustin, Elouan (France)

Adelinde, Aline, Augustin, Vivian (Germany)

Damon (Greece)

Ágoston (Hungary)

Agostino, Ermete (Italy)

Auguste, Guste, Ranna (Latvia)

Augustinas, Patricija, Steigvilė, Tarvilas (Lithuania)

Artur, August (Norway)

Adelina, Aleksander, Aleksy, Augustyn, Patrycja, Sobiesław, Stronisław (Poland)

Augustín (Slovakia)

Agustín (Spain)

Fatima, Leila (Sweden)

Agustin, August, Augusta, Augustina, Austen, Austin, Austina, Austyn, Gus, Gustava, Gustavo (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 240 of 2024; 125 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 35 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 13 (Wu-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Elul 5783

Islamic: 11 Safar 1445

J Cal: 30 Hasa; Nineday [30 of 30]

Julian: 15 August 2023

Moon: 92%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 16 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Mariotte]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 68 of 94)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 7 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Rad (Motion) [Half-Month 17 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 9.9)

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Stalag 17

Stalag 17 (1953) starring William Holden, Otto Preminger [Opening narration] Cookie: I don’t know about you, but it always makes me sore when I see those war pictures… all about flying leathernecks and submarine patrols and frogmen and guerillas in the Philippines. What gets me is that there never w-was a movie about POWs – about prisoners of war. Now, my name is Clarence Harvey Cook: they call…

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Some concept writing as part of this! What's going on Earthside in Reaches, the 2012 timeline that Loki, Steve, and Natasha visit in Yonder; this will expand into a full chapter at some point. (Reaches is that weird middle point between being a chaptered fic and being concept writing.)

1K below the break.

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Rhodey was unsurprised to see Tony emerging from the compartment next to his, straightening his tie and looking generally unruffled.  It was a sharp contrast to the way Rhodey felt, which was to say: like he had been dragged backwards through a mangle.  He had flown straight here in the War Machine suit and the rest of his gear was still back in Camp Leatherneck.  Rhodey was just hoping he would see it again sometime, though since it had been left in the tender hands of the United States Marine Corps he wasn’t feeling particularly sanguine about that.  SHIELD had somehow produced a set of ABUs in his size, complete with his name tape and rank insignia; the clothes had the presumably-unintended effect of making him feel a little paranoid, though that might have been the lack of sleep.  What Rhodey wanted was a shower, a nap, and a meal; he hadn’t gotten any of those.

“Hey, man,” he said, and Tony looked up and grinned at the sight of him. “They drag you into this goat rodeo too?”

“Apparently it’s ‘a matter of vital planetary security,’” Tony said, making air quotes around the words.  “And a ‘national tragedy,’ which I guess means Captain Spangles is involved somehow.  It figures.”

“Captain – what?”  Maybe it was the sleep deprivation or the intercontinental flight, because even Rhodey’s experience at translating from Tony to English failed him.

“What, you didn’t do the homework?”

“You know, two hours ago I was in Afghanistan,” Rhodey told him meaningfully. “Out in the middle of nowhere doing the good work of the American people, when all of a sudden my CO calls and tells me that SHIELD, in their high-handed wisdom, says that I have to go their secret flying whatever-the-hell-this-is right now.  So no, Tony, I didn’t do the homework.”

SHIELD had been the bogeyman of the American military and intelligence communities for more than half a century, a rumored secret even before its existence had been made public in 1975 during the Church Committee investigations.  Even after the Expo, Rhodey had never had much interaction with them, though he knew that the Air Force had gotten into a pissing match with SHIELD over him – over the War Machine suit, rather.  He didn’t know whether the Air Force had won so much as SHIELD had decided that it didn’t really matter, which this whole escapade seemed to argue in the first place.  He wasn’t too eager to find out what had made SHIELD yank a leash he hadn’t even known was there.

“Gentlemen.”  The SHIELD agent who appeared suddenly at the other end of the room was blonde, pretty, and young enough to make Rhodey feel a thousand years old.  “I’m Agent 13 of SHIELD Special Service.  If you’ll come with me, Director Fury’s waiting for you.”

“So is 13 the first name or last name?” Rhodey asked, exchanging a meaningful look with Tony.  Almost thirty years of friendship with Tony to had inured him to most theatrics, but that didn’t mean he appreciated them.

The comment got him a dry look in response, but no further elaboration.  She led them through the bowels of the helicarrier and upwards past blue- or black- uniformed SHIELD personnel.  Rhodey had been on enough top-secret assignments in his day that he was willing to be patient, since SHIELD wouldn’t have hauled them both out here if it wasn’t for a good reason, but Agent 13’s unwillingness to respond to any of Tony’s questions was clearly driving him up the wall.  She led them to some kind of conference room that had a couple of heavily-armed SHIELD agents in tactical gear standing watch in the hallway.

“Mr. Stark, Colonel Rhodes,” she said, showing them inside with the air of someone glad to wash her hands of them both.  Rhodey couldn’t blame her for that, but he thought it was a little unfair since he hadn’t done anything.

“Thank you, Agent,” Nick Fury said.  The door slid shut behind Agent 13 as Fury came over to shake hands with both Tony and Rhodey, saying, “Thanks for coming out.”

“Didn’t realize we had a choice,” Rhodey said, cutting off whatever snarky remark Tony was going to make.

Fury, to his credit, didn’t tell them that he hadn’t had one, just introduced them to the other people in the room – a SHIELD agent named Barton, a scientist called Erik Selvig whose name Rhodey vaguely recognized, and Bruce Banner, whom Rhodey had never personally met but whom he recognized from both the newspapers and the files he had been briefed on the previous year.  From Banner’s expression, he realized that Rhodey recognized him.

“We’re waiting on one more –” Fury started to say, just as the door slid open again.

“– of course it was a set-up!  Highly-paid consultations don’t just fall out of the sky, I can’t believe you thought you could just, just what, put me in storage –”

Selvig got to his feet. “Jane – Jane –”

The first woman to come through the door was small and furious; the woman who followed her was younger, with dark hair and glasses.  They were both followed by Agent Coulson, who looked decidedly put-upon.

“Dr. Foster,” Fury said, or tried to say, because she ignored him.  Rhodey stepped hastily out of the way as she bulldozed her way across the room to get to Selvig.

“Erik, are you all right?”

“I’m – I’m fine,” Selvig said, not looking like he was sure he believed it.

The other woman was looking around the room with interest, her eyes widening a little when she recognized Tony.  He winked at her.  She looked annoyed.

“Does this have something to do with Thor?” she demanded. “Is that why you dragged us out here?”

Rhodey blinked. “With who?”

Yeah, he thought tiredly as Fury started to explain something that included aliens, time travel, Captain America, and magic, he really should have stayed in Afghanistan to get shot at by terrorists.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY! NEXT UP - 1/48 Kitty Hawk AH-1Z “Viper”

Happy Father’s Day weekend to all the Dad’s! My next build is the 1/48 Kitty Hawk AH-1Z “Viper” attack helicopter. This is the first of a few commission builds I will be doing over the next few months. For this build I will be adding the Eduard interior and exterior photo etch sets, the Model Master M197 (20mm) brass barrels, and the Flying Leathernecks TSS Turret. The scheme will be aircraft 47…