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Lieutenant Spieksma
“Kitten” Smith earned his name at Camp Currie when Corporal Jones criticized his hand-to-hand combat skills, claiming a kitten would punch harder. He goes to Seattle with Johnnie and Pat Leivy, where they end up in a fistfight with some angry merchant marines. Smith is sent with Johnnie and Al Jenkins to Willie’s Wildcats after graduation, but he dies in the launch tube waiting for his first official drop when the Valley Forge and the Ypres collide.
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Kitten Smith Character Timeline in Starship Troopers
The timeline below shows where the character Kitten Smith appears in Starship Troopers. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 9
On liberty, Johnnie, Pat Leivy, and Kitten Smith go to Seattle, where Pat had grown up. The girls are just as plentiful...
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The trio ends up at a dockside bar for dinner. Johnnie isn’t drinking; Kitten has one beer with his meal, but his temperament isn’t belligerent. Most of the other...
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The four men follow Johnnie, Pat, and Kitten outside and charge at them. Johnnie knocks one out, Kitten “handle[s]” two of them, and...
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Chapter 10
When Johnnie, Kitten Smith, and Al Jenkins report to their unit, however, all of Willie’s Wildcats turn out...
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...to Sergeant Jelal on the Roger Young. Both wear gold skull earrings with one bone. Kitten died in the tube on the Valley Forge while waiting to be dropped. Because fewer...
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