WALRUS: SOME BATTLES AREN'T FOUGHT AT SEA

A retired Navy Chief Warrant Officer founded an informal, personal team called WALRUS to combat bad decisions and emotional vulnerabilities among sailors. - Founded by Javier Tracker in a bar in Olongapo after questionable life choices. - WALRUS stands for Wenches and Liquor Ruin Unfortunate Sailors. - It is a personal vendetta, not an official military unit. - Tracker aims to restore balance and prevent sailors from making poor decisions, especially related to relationships. - The team is built on understanding and intervening in sailors' emotional and social issues. A humorous and satirical depiction of a makeshift military-style unit dedicated to preventing romantic and emotional disasters among servicemembers in Subic Bay. - WALRUS stands for Wenches And Liquor Ruin Unfortunate Sailors. - The organization is portrayed as an elite, paramilitary-like group with humorous training and tactics. - Their mission is to protect vulnerable servicemembers from financial, emotional, and romantic pitfalls, especially involving wenches, karaoke, and emotional manipulation. - They operate out of a suspicious van with minimal equipment, including a karaoke machine, flashlights, and a Navy manual. - The group has already prevented at least four marriages and is expanding rapidly. - They use humorous acronyms, acrid training manuals, and exaggerated tactics to prepare members for emotional warfare. A comedic portrayal of how female karaoke lounge singers and bar women organize to counter WALRUS, escalating into a humorous emotional warfare arms race. - LOTBUS stands for Ladies Opposing Toxic Broke & Unstable Sailors. - The women see WALRUS as a threat to their business and organize to fight back. - Madame Chona, a legendary figure, leads the female organization, which adopts the name LOTBUS. - The women develop their own tactics, including emotional warfare and sabotage, to counter WALRUS. - They believe they invented emotional warfare and are prepared for a full-scale war. - The rivalry involves secret meetings, strategic planning, and humorous branding of their organization. - Both groups are depicted as engaging in a humorous, escalating conflict over control of the romantic and emotional landscape.

Pagina's: 317, Paperback, Independently published