Training for War

One of the things that’s important, I think, to understand is that from the very beginning after your basic training then you’re finally taken on strength with the Forces, now you’re a number that can be counted upon to go anywhere and whatever. I think one of the, it’s important that from that day on we trained for war. We trained for war not only in tactics, not only in going away and doing exercises, but in the cohesiveness in forming those tight bonds and also learning that the tight bonds are important but you need to also bring it to a level of insuring that you can handle detachment for a number of reasons. On our basic training there was an incident when we were being familiarized with weapons, one of the anti-tank guns blew up when some of the guys were on the line. Nobody got hurt, thankfully, but you got to know real quick that life could be very short and you got that frame of mind that says, well, it’s always going to happen to the next guy.