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                During a recent lunch break at Northwest Cafe, 27 year old former Marine assault man and scout sniper, UA Fairbanks graduate, former active army and now National Guard officer, WWIII and South China Sea war veteran and now Hillwood county Sheriff’s deputy hoping to be star Philip RC Shortman was eyeing the studio with a sense of forlorn.  For the past year he’s been trying to get all kinds of roles, but alas he was always passed over for ether overshadowing the talent, asking for too much or too little or, for the past year and a half, not having an SAG card.  Still he starred forlorn.  Then his girlfriend appeared

    It was senior year and Phillip Shortman was angsty and antsy.  He was glad to be graduating a year early due to his advanced classes.  Now he was 16 years old and ready to graduate, he wanted a way to leave Hillwood for good.  At the local college fair he was looking at all the drama schools when he was given an offer by a marine recruiter. “Are you Phillip Shortman?” the recruiter asked. “Who wants to know?” Phil replied with minor sarcasm. “Well” the recruiter said with a smile “I’m Sergeant Robles of the United States Marine Corps and I heard about your academic accomplishments and was