Kelly Xu
The men of Bravo?? The men of Bravo are not cold. It’s a chilly and windwhipped Thanksgiving Day with sleet and freezing rain forecast for late afternoon, but Bravo is nicely blazed on Jack and Cokes thanks to the epic crawl of game-day traffic and the limo’s minibar. Five drinks in forty minutes is probably pushing it, but Billy needs some refreshment after the hotel lobby, where overcaffeinated tag teams of grateful citizens trampolined right down the middle of his hangover. There was one man in particular who attached himself to Billy, a pale, spongy Twinkie of a human being crammed into starched blue jeans and fancy cowboy boots. “Was never in the military myself,” the man confided, swaying, gesturing with his giant Starbucks, “but my granddaddy was at Pearl, he told me all the stories,” and the man embarked on a rambling speech about war and God and country as Billy let go, let the words whirl and tumble around his brain. I would like to know what does "The men of Bravo" mean?
Jan 28, 2015 12:47 PM
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Military Regiments are divided in to "companies". Companies are designated A, B, C, and D. In military terms, these are explicitly refer to as Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta for the sake of clarity in a war environment or any other circumstance where all confusion in radio or phone traffic must be eliminated.
January 28, 2015
"Pearl" refers to the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II and the man mentions the military.He then talks about" war and god and country" so that is what it sounds like to me.
January 28, 2015
I am not sure because I don't know the whole context,but it sounds like the name of the Army unit or Company that the men belong to.
January 28, 2015
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