Yet.The girls were fine, and Cmdr. Hollerith knew that Carol could figure out that he was close to Japan from the kinds of gifts he'd sent. Japan was ...somewhere safe. Afghanistan was not. He spent a good part of an hour talking with his family and signed off.The fact was that his entire team was on R&R at the moment, having been relieved by an Army Ranger / SpecOps Team at a location in the northern mountains of Afghanistan. There was a lot of trash talk between the SEALs and the Rangers, of. "Well, the man puts his penis inside the woman's vagina and then ejaculates the semen into her. He can't do it unless it gets hard."She was wide eyed now, and paused to let all of this sink into her mind. Then she said, "Wow. Does that mean if you put your penis in my vagina and did what you just did outside it, I would have a baby???" Naw, girls your age can't have babies. I think you hafta be a lot older than you are. You gotta grow up first. You're still a little girl." I'm not either. I'm. "Oh pity, I could do with a laugh," Max chuckled, "wait outside."After a few minutes he's called him back in."Well it seems that some bastards are working on my patch without a licence," Max said, "I don't like that, I don't like that at all; no respect young people today. Here have a drink,"Max pushed over a half full bottle of scotch. Mike didn't like the sound of this, Max being genial. All his fears proved out when Max continued after a long drink of his scotch."When you find them, I like a. .. again ... together. Cleopatra was then heard to say, looking over towards her lover..."My Queen ... my queen. And he, looking somewhat startled, though quickly responding back to her in the old Egyptian language and dialect, which he never did learn how to speak, called her My Antony!" They both succumbed to their wounds and poisons once more shortly after that." Wow," I said trying to digest this interesting little twist on history. But it was again yet another reminder just how difficult.