My sympathies for your own experience and I'm surprised the military were allowed to do that in peacetime. 19 DAYS?! What the hell do they want? Recurits or dead people!?! :-O shocked
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I’ve found that the Navy doesn’t care in the slightest about the enlisted men. To the higher ups, we’re basically expendable tools, which is pretty stupid given that we do their jobs for them.
Alorkin