Downrange
Downrange is an American comic series that appears regularly twice a week in the daily military newspaper Stars and Stripes (circulation 365,000) and on the official website of the military. The comic tells of the life of the protagonist Sprat , a private who, together with his comrades, does his military service in an abandoned outpost in the middle of the desert. The cartoonist Jeffery Hall, himself in the army serves as a staff sergeant in the Tennessee Air Force National Guard and is stationed in Iraq.
The name of the comic comes from the English term downrange , which on the one hand describes the trajectory of a spaceship, but is used within the US Army for an overseas stationing or use in a dangerous area (often a war zone ). The term originally referred to shooting lanes on which live ammunition was fired. The term was later used by mine clearance teams.
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- ↑ History and edition of the Stars and Stripes ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Comic Strip at downrangeweb.com (English)
- ↑ Chattanooga Times Free Press: "Chris Cooper: Military Cartoonist Member of the local National Guard unit " ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
