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    CONTRACTOR SERVICE RIFLE

    Jan 25, 2019 3 minutes
    BY TOM MARSHALL

    lsewhere in this issue, you can see the second installment of “Exigent Circumstances” — a short fiction concept we first ran way back When fleshing out the universe around Hampton-Crane International, our faux private military contracting firm, we realized that even a fictional corporate army would still need a standard-issue rifle. As a team, the RECOIL staff has decades of military and security experience between them. This author holds the dubious honor of logging 13 separate deployments to Afghanistan as a nonfictional government security contractor.

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