You didn’t think Mr. Biner would be unaware of his powerful voice, didja?
You didn’t think he wouldn’t be crazy proud of it or anything, wouldja?
You didn’t suppose that Kara doesn’t just love her daddy for his unique, ear-splitting ability, shouldja?
Broken the water?
Or broken the wind?
Whatever, Kara knows her dad and can push the right buttons to get him to back off (the biker in the boat is supposed to do the guiding) so they’re not breaking the rules.
love the daughter-y kiss
A drill instructor I can admire.
Mine was like Sgt Hartman in Full Metal Jacket.
When he finally called me by my real name I knew he accepted me as a soldier.
“I WILL TEACH YOU!!”
Sgt. Hartman was portrayed by R. Lee Ermey [given an honorary one rank increase to Gunnery Sgt after his round of servce] The good fellow HAD been a real Drill Instructor at Paris Island during Vietnam. He was hired for technical advisor and asked to read for Hartman. Most of his lines are unscripted….
I didn’t know that. I assume he had some fun w the role. Sounds like it, anyway.
They asked him to make it real. He replied he no other way.
My Army DI was named Humphries. He fought in WW2, Korea, and early Nam. He was on us from day one. Our company was three platoons of National Guard and mine which was regular Army. Most in our platoon were draftees. My squad of 8 was all enlisted and he rode us hard putting us up wet. When he spoke you listened.
Yep. They also kept Ermey and the other actors apart except for when they were on set and filming. No chance to make friends or break down that working on Ermey gave them. Later Ermey had a show called Mail Call where viewers could write in and ask about military things and they would do little documentaries. (I grew up near Minot AFB in North Dakota and it was one of the two nuclear bases with B-52’s. He went up there to film a bit about that and couldn’t pronounce Minot to save his. French it is, named after a French nobleman in the area when it was settled… Min-neaux (oh) is the French. Locally it’s My-knot. (rhymes with ‘why not’) Nobody told him apparently about that one.]
Love the “DADDY!!!” in the first panel.
That military voice isn’t that hard to do. From the diaphragm. Of course we didn’t do that in basic training (that we would let the TIs, DIs for Army and Marine, no about). It made child rearing interesting.
I call it my storytelling voice. I am astonished that the teachers I work with (I teach theater Tech) have no clue about the Voice. I have also used it on a kid who was messing with the dulcimers on display, while the instrument maker timidly asked the kid to please not touch. “Hands off the Dulcimer!” Kid jumped about a foot, and the folks at the booth next door, really didn’t hear me. Not loud, just intense.