Kuribayashi has an episode of this during her assault on Zorzal's guards, where she begins to gleefully torture her targets, including pinning one injured guard down while forcefully removing his teeth with her bayonet, an event that mirrors the atrocities of some US Marines during their WWII Pacific campaign. Emerson notes that if one of the JSDF or Marines die during their deployment in the Special Region, who knows just how many more troops Japan or America will put into the world.

Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Constantly mentioned in-story.

Colonel Matthew Noelle in Section 1-12, who has the nickname 'BlueWay'. Fixed in Here We Go Again!, where Emerson and friends accompany the 3rd MEU as MARSOC Raiders. This alongside the fact the root of the Rangers from Colonial America could be tapped into by the Rangers in the Special Region. The author handwaves this by saying that the Rangers were already engaged with the Empire during the Ginza Incident. In terms of forces, it would make more sense if MARSOC came along as they are a Marine special operation force.

Artistic License – Military: The American expedition team, made up of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, really has no business having Army Rangers tote around with them.

Although he survived the Incident his family was not so lucky.

And This Is for.: Emerson and Masterson dedicate their efforts in the Special Region to avenging their comrade Tracey, the third Ranger in Ginza that day.

This has been brought up by the Diet as evidence of America's aggression into Japan's policy.

America Saves the Day: The Battle of Italica, while responded by the JSDF, is majorly made up of Marine units, up to 550 personnel compared to the JSDF's 80.

It results in the rest of Yao's tribe wiped out to the last man when they ambush the team and the latter retaliate in self-defense without knowing who/what they were shooting at until it's too late, and then finding out that the flame dragon had been dead for months, making the wipeout all the more meaningless.

All for Nothing: The hunt for the Flame Dragon.

The M25 airburst launcher are renamed XM25 launchers, signifying that the prototype grenade launchers got adopted into military service.

The 'MCR rifles' in the story are the equivalent of the Robinson XCR rifle, according to Word of God.

If you're looking for the Useful Notes: Manifest Destiny. On December 9th, 2019, the fic underwent a reboot titled Manifest Destiny: An Empire of Dirt, and the original version was subsequently deleted shortly after. The fic also takes a darker edge on the original story of Gate by exploring atrocities done by both sides in the war, alongside the war-torn Earth 2028 from years of warfare and disasters that led to many morally questionable actions by the international community. The story follows the canon events by the manga and anime as close as possible with the Americans attached to Itami and Third Recon Team. Manifest Destiny is written as a Alternate Universe of the events in Gate by adding the United States into the forces invading the Special Region, with the point of view coming from special forces, specifically the United States Army Rangers.

Marines, a smaller platoon-sized Ranger unit, designated 'Hitman', with Emerson in command is attached to assist their efforts into the new world. In this American expeditionary force made up of the 7th Marine Expeditionary Force of the U.S.

Seeking justice, the United States sends an expeditionary force that would act in an advising role alongside the JSDF as they spearhead through the Gate to find the unknown enemy and bring them to justice. The 'Ginza Incident', as the event would be known, results in the the death of over seven hundred Japanese and twelve American civilian deaths. Marine personnel, the Gate, callsign 'Alpha Point' is secured. In an attempt to save himself and his friends, he alongside his close friend Sergeant Cameron Masterson link up with a peculiar offduty JSDF officer named Youji Itami and coordinate the civilian evacuation of Ginza. From that Gate outpoured legions of knights, cavalry, and mystical creatures from fantasy stories, their intent: conquest. As he accompanies two of his Rangers during off time in Tokyo they find themselves at the ground zero of the Ginza Incident a Gate to another world having opened in the middle of one of Toyko's most popular districts during a full blown doujin and manga convention. Of those Rangers is a newly minted 2nd Lieutenant Kristian Emerson from the Bronx. The year is 2028 and the War on Terror has finally ended a detachment of the American 75th Ranger Regiment is on deployment in Japan to keep the peace against a more and more desperate China. Manifest Destiny by BlueWay, was a Alternate Universe / Fix Fic of the web novel, Gate - Thus the JSDF Fought There.

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