Good Story. At 23:10 in this Take abd a few other places, there is talk of injured cadets. I humbly suggest a mod. "In the Human military, there is a mantra, "no soldier left behind". Before the last Challenge Tom slips a small but useful FIRST AID KIT into his BDUs. When he comes across an injured fellow cadet, he does not just pass him by, but even back tracks to the injured cadet to check / evaluate and taking the time to administer FIRST AID. This causes him to fall farther back. On the last hill, Vrax makes it to the top first but sees Tom slip and falter. Vrax immediately acts jumping back down the slope to keep Tom from falling. He pushes Tom ahead putting himself behind. Ad the exercise ends abd the other successful cadets ars acknowledged, Vrax and Tom are not in the group being congratulated. Thinking they are being mustered out of the program, they detectedly leave. A MASTER GHNNERY SARGEANT steps in front of them. Hix broken nose, bashed in forehead, whirring prosthetic arm are obvious. He is simply GUNNY to all the cadets; feared by all including the commanding officers. GUNNY be.lows, " JUST WHERE THE HELL DO YOU TWO JAG-OFFS THINK YOU ARE GOING? STAND TO ATTENTION !" Afted what seems like an eternity GUNNY'S angry face ( which has been known to melt steel and turn off containment fields ) turns into an approving grin. "You two Ground-Pounding Monkies are something else; there is a special spot in HELL for you. Report to the School CO who will be giving you a special assignment !" Tom thinks GUNNY must have spotted his FIRST AID KIT on the course. As they enter the CO's office they are dumb-founded to find GUNNY behind the desk. He tells him that he used to be a MASTER GUNNERY SARGEANT, but the "higher ups" thought he might better serve cadets as their CO. He sats their basic skills in the gield are yop notch. So, he announces to the two befuddled ex-enemies-turned-friends they have been selected to "move up" and take the much more grueling, much more intense, training program in Leadership. If they survive, they will be given the rank of Colonel and a choice of deployment. He then asks them, "any idea of what you two meat-heads would choose; Dreadnought Captaincy Program ? Intel ? DARPA/R&D ? Covert Ops ? Special Forces ? Top Gun Flight School ? After looking at each other Tom and Vrax say in unison with a loud voice, "CADET TRAINING !" GUNNY smiles and mutters, " thought so".
Good Story. At 23:10 in this Take abd a few other places, there is talk of injured cadets. I humbly suggest a mod. "In the Human military, there is a mantra, "no soldier left behind". Before the last Challenge Tom slips a small but useful FIRST AID KIT into his BDUs. When he comes across an injured fellow cadet, he does not just pass him by, but even back tracks to the injured cadet to check / evaluate and taking the time to administer FIRST AID. This causes him to fall farther back. On the last hill, Vrax makes it to the top first but sees Tom slip and falter. Vrax immediately acts jumping back down the slope to keep Tom from falling. He pushes Tom ahead putting himself behind. Ad the exercise ends abd the other successful cadets ars acknowledged, Vrax and Tom are not in the group being congratulated. Thinking they are being mustered out of the program, they detectedly leave. A MASTER GHNNERY SARGEANT steps in front of them. Hix broken nose, bashed in forehead, whirring prosthetic arm are obvious. He is simply GUNNY to all the cadets; feared by all including the commanding officers. GUNNY be.lows, " JUST WHERE THE HELL DO YOU TWO JAG-OFFS THINK YOU ARE GOING? STAND TO ATTENTION !" Afted what seems like an eternity GUNNY'S angry face ( which has been known to melt steel and turn off containment fields ) turns into an approving grin. "You two Ground-Pounding Monkies are something else; there is a special spot in HELL for you. Report to the School CO who will be giving you a special assignment !"
Tom thinks GUNNY must have spotted his FIRST AID KIT on the course. As they enter the CO's office they are dumb-founded to find GUNNY behind the desk.
He tells him that he used to be a MASTER GUNNERY SARGEANT, but the "higher ups" thought he might better serve cadets as their CO. He sats their basic skills in the gield are yop notch. So, he announces to the two befuddled ex-enemies-turned-friends they have been selected to "move up" and take the much more grueling, much more intense, training program in Leadership. If they survive, they will be given the rank of Colonel and a choice of deployment. He then asks them, "any idea of what you two meat-heads would choose; Dreadnought Captaincy Program ? Intel ? DARPA/R&D ? Covert Ops ? Special Forces ? Top Gun Flight School ? After looking at each other Tom and Vrax say in unison with a loud voice, "CADET TRAINING !" GUNNY smiles and mutters, " thought so".
High humidity? They should have sent someone from the Gulf Coast. 😊
Considering Earth is a high gravity planet due to the moon's deep gravity well, I find this story a little confusing.