Background Pony #26A6
“Then she brought out two foreigners. One was a burly, dark-complected man with a handlebar mustache, a bright white smile, a bright white turtleneck sweater to match, and a Western fencer’s foil in his hand. ‘This is the Dago. He’s our edged-weapons specialist.’ The other was older, tall and thin and humorless-looking with silver hair cropped close in a military burr cut. He was holding a very modern, very purposeful-looking, short black rifle of some kind, and without preamble he began to speak. ‘This is an M4 carbine. It is a five point five six millimeter caliber, magazine-fed, gas-operated, air-cooled, select-fire automatic carbine, currently issued to the US military and several others. You will learn its nomenclature. You will learn its stoppages.’”