That is but one of his many myriad skills.
His turn of a phrase, too, is breathtaking.
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Yes, the facility with rhyme and meter is outrageous, but the real genius, in my opinion, is using those tools to give the almost photographic image of the aftermath of a battle in the Afghan Wars. Remember the scene early in the movie “Patton” when Gen. Patton views the field after the battle of Kasserine Pass?