A few words from the author: Thank you to all who read my story, and a bigger thank you to all who reviewed it.

Notes on the text: this chapter could be considered filler, but I wanted to take a little break from darkness. Warning: contains massive innuendo and massive exaggeration.

Enjoy

February 10, 1968; 830 local time; Cholon district, Saigon, Vietam

Renji was sitting next to Gunz, who was talking into the radio he was carrying. Gunz got off the radio, stood up, called everybody over to him and told them what he heard on the radio.

"We've got a new mission to go get coffee and donuts. The problem is, Charlie drank all coffee and ate all the donuts, so now we have to go kick their asses." Gunz said as he loaded his M-60. "Saddle up!"

The five men, who were there before Ichigo's squad arrived, groaned as they got up and loaded their weapons.

"Wait, how'z 'at any differ'nt from what we were doin' before." Gin asked with a slightly confused look on his face.

"It's not" Ganju said in a humorless tone.

Renji asked a member of Gunz's squad, "Is he always like this?"

"Yeah, he's like this all the time. You get used to it after a while." One of the riflemen responded.

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February 10, 1968; 1306 local time; Cholon district, Saigon, Vietnam

Ichigo's unit stopped to have lunch. Ichigo, Renji, Rusty, and Urahara situated themselved along the wall a small abandoned room. The inside walls of the room were lined with hangers and storage racks. Urahara guessed that this had once been a market booth. They opened their C-rations and began eating. Ichigo noticed Rusty take out a small photograph from underneath his helmet.

"What's that?" Ichigo asked.

"It's a picture of my wife, see?" Rusty said handing the photo to Ichigo.

Ichigo's eyes got huge and his jaw dropped as he stared at the tall, busty, strawberry blonde in the photograph. She was lying on a beach wearing a very revealing red bikini and winking in a way that should have been illegal. Renji and Urahara, seeing Ichigo's face scooted over and looked at the picture, their eyes grew huge. Urahara whistled approvingly.

"HOLY SHIT! How the hell did a guy like you end up with a babe with that?!" Renji asked.

"What can I say? I have a thing for blondes." Rusty said shrugging bashfully.

"Let me get this straight. You left that woman to come to this shit-hole?" Renji asked, "What the hell were you thinking?"

"Duty first, besides my tour is over in three months." Rusty said.

"How much you wanna bet Jodi's banging her right now?" Ichigo said to Renji.

"You kidding? I bet Jodi started banging her the minute he shipped out." Renji said laughing.

Rusty took back the photograph saying, "Jodi wouldn't touch her, if he did she would make sure that he would never be able to bang another soldier's woman ever again."

"She give you that as a going-away present?" Urahara asked.

"Sort of, the real going-away present came later that night. I went to bed at nine, fell asleep at eleven." Rusty said, looking rather pleased with himself.

"Two hours? that's nothing. Last year at our old post in Boun Ma Thout, this guy took us to town. We found out that Sandal-hat here had a particular hooker he visited every time he went into town. She charged sixty bucks a pop." Ichigo said pointing to Urahara.

"Sixty bucks? That's a lot." Rusty said.

"To be more specific, she charged twelve dollars an hour... and believe me it was worth every penny." Urahara said smiling.

Apon hearing that, Rusty gagged on the food he was eating. After he cleared his throat, he looked at Urahara with a mixture of awe and disbelief.

"When she says 'me love you long time' she means it." Urahara said chuckling at Rusty's response.

After a few minutes the men finished their lunch and packed up. Ignorant of the battle they would face later that very day.

The coffee and doughnuts line was "borrowed" from Call of Duty 3 (which is a pretty good game if you're into WWII shooters).

C-rations: Prepackaged meals issued to soldiers, contained an entree, gum, toiletpaper, cigarettes, and other necessities

Jodi: the legendary civilian that goes around sleeping with all the soldier's wives and girlfriends where they're overseas

Author's notes: I have five character spots in the story that I would like filled with OC's. I am currently looking for five male OC's to use. Please PM if you are interested.