“Nothing like convincing a fake resistance to fake believe in your fake plan to fake liberate a fake country full of real ticks.”
If you’ve never bribed a farmer with MRE pound cake to use his barn as an HLZ, are you even Special Forces?
Robin Sage: where goats, moonshine, and role players with questionable hygiene are your new reality.
Robin Sage / Pineland Jokes đ„
1.
âYouâll gain the trust of the indigenous population,â they said. Translation: Youâll trade three MREs and a bottle of Tabasco for half a boiled squirrel and some moonshine that tastes like radiator fluid.
2.
Robin Sage is the only place where getting captured by a 12-year-old with a BB gun is a legitimate training outcome.
3.
ODA Rule of Thumb in Pineland: âIf he owns goats, a CB radio, and says ‘We donât trust the gubmint’… heâs probably your new battalion commander.â
4.
Pineland intel reports are 75% hearsay, 20% ghost stories, and 5% actual truth accidentally overheard at a gas station.
5.
During Robin Sage, I infiltrated enemy territory, led an insurgency, and trained 60 resistance fighters. But I still couldnât figure out how to get back to my RON site without stepping in cow poop.
6.
The only thing more dangerous than OPFOR in Robin Sage⊠is falling asleep in a barn and waking up next to a goat named Linda who now thinks youâre married.
7.
Cadre Be Like: “Rememberâdon’t let the roleplayers catch you!” Meanwhile the roleplayers: retired SF dudes, deer hunters, and a guy named âRedâ whoâs been in Pineland since Vietnam.
8.
Pinelandâs national anthem is the sound of two guys arguing over conspiracy theories on a HAM radio at 2 a.m.
9.
Robin Sage is the only exercise where you can start as a freedom fighter and end up with scurvy, trench foot, and a questionable tattoo from a moonshiner named Cleetus.
10.
âI have a guy.â Most powerful sentence in Pineland. Translation: I know someone with night vision, homemade explosives, and a plane that might be legal.
