Make sure you attach your gas mask on correctly. In basic training where I learned to kill and maim, I was crawling through the obstacle course when someone yelled GAS! I reached for my mask and realized it had come loose and was lying in the sand.
I grabbed it and slung it on my face, getting a mouthful of sand. Somehow I got through the course.
I learned other things in training. If one person messes up, everyone gets punished. If you ask questions you will pay in all sorts of ways. Lying on a bunk at night wondering how I got here. Maybe I would write the great war novel like Naked and the Dead.
Mostly I learned a college degree doesn't help you shoot straight.
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