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True dat . . . and those poles look depressingly familiar, from my own military past!
Peter
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The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
That's a truism… In MANY ways.
One looks for a seabee in the background, waving a tommy gun and saying "You bastards quite tearing down our poles"
I remember that. I also remember laughing at my BUDS trainers. They REALLY tried to break me after that.
I just laughed harder and said, "I'm TWICE" the man you are. Bring it."
And I won.
One trainer left the service because he couldn't take it. I broke him mentally.
(This is all a joke)…..
Heh. What's that pole exercise really about anyway? Because I'm fairly sure our standard wooden poles of that thickness aren't heavy enough to require that many soldiers…
(Another country here. I suppose you could be using a different and denser kind of wood?)
Yeah, occasionally it can happen that the trainers just aren't good enough to give the recruits much of a challenge. Mostly in places where the previous batch trains the next, and the batches get recruited differently. (Farm/forestry life, Boy Scouts and hunting make for a good grounding of militarily useful skills, but, the previous batch was all city kids…)
Of course most of the English-speaking militaries seem to have proper staff NCOs as trainers nowadays instead, but, well…
This is OUR Telephone Pole, there are many like it, but this is our Telephone Pole. We call it Shirley……