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and covers Korea in great detail. There's things in it that only make sense if you know some of the
details the writer left out, though."
"My brain hurts," Tao said, grabbing his head. "Who is MacArthur? Where in the hell is Myanmar?
Why does any of this matter? How do you know what to study? In advance? Been getting some
sideline tutoring?"
"Tao . . ." Destrang warned, angrily.
"Jesus," Tao said, immediately, looking at Van Krief. "I didn't mean it like that, you know that Mo."
He looked at the female ensign pleadingly.
"As far as I know, Captain Herrick has never even noticed me as a female," Van Krief said, tightly.
"I'll assume that you've just managed to put your foot in your mouth, again. God knows it's big enough."
"I said I was sorry," Tao said. "But, really, how do you know?"
Van Krief thought about that and then she shrugged.
"Captain Herrick is not much older than we are," she said. "And while he's far more experienced in
war, he, from what I've gleaned, was not a scholar before he was assigned to the Academy. He hits
particular areas and stays there for a while. He caught me out when he started talking about the
communist war in Chin and the American defeat in Vietnam, but after that I realized he was
concentrating on the twentieth century in Asia. From there I researched all the books related to that area
and period and started reading them as fast as I could. There are only so many that survived the Fall.
Captain Herrick has access to Duke Edmund's library, as well, but he seems to be drawing on historical
actions that are in books in the Academy library. Personally, I think he's doing that so we can do the
research he assigns and tries to limit himself to what he knows is available. So if you work at it, you can
stay ahead of the assignments."
"That's . . . twisted," Destrang said.
"It's using intelligence and planning to stay ahead of your enemy's thoughts," the female ensign said
with a grin. "Call it . . . subtle. Now, Asghar," she continued, looking at Destrang. "I'll help you find the
relevant sections in there if you'll help me with that damned engineering assignment."
"What's so hard?" the ensign replied, picking up a sheet of paper with a vague sketch on it. "It's just
bridge design."
"It's the schedule he required," Van Krief answered. "I can design the bridge, it's a straightforward
pile bridge like we made in Blood Lords school, just bigger. But first you have to come up with the
materials list, then a plan to gather the materials, then implementation. With a single legion."
"Legion and supports," Destrang said, sitting down. "Don't forget the camp followers. You're
allowed six hundred camp followers as well; which is low according to the texts. Of those, some two
hundred are going to be male. Some of them are semicritical servants, make it a hundred and fifty
available. You don't assemble the materials and then get started, you start to assemble the materials and
then as soon as you have a certain amount you devote most of the legion to building while the camp
followers continue cutting trees. You're the one that keeps reading ahead, you might want to think back
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instead to Gallic Wars."
"Ah," Van Krief replied, with a smile. "But there's no mention of using the camp followers in there."
"The Romans didn't organize theirs the way that we do," Tao noted. "All the sutlers and other . . .
ahem . . . 'support personnel' . . . have to be bonded."
"тАв'Ahem?'тАв" Van Krief asked with a frown.
"Whores." Destrang chuckled. "And the latter have to be examined by bonded medical personnel as
well. But the latter don't enter into the equation, much, because pregnancy rates run as high as thirty
percent."
"Dear God," Van Krief replied, thinking about trying to keep up with a legion while pregnant. From
her own time with the legions she was aware of the "ahem . . . support personnel" but she'd never