I often wonder if this my reward for embarrassing the CO last year because this seems like a do or die Corp. to me. This posting had come as a bit of a shock, an upward move to a crack unit, these guys were serious about their work. We would be the advance troops, this is what I signed up for. The drill sergeants pushed us hard, a lot of the recruits would not make the intensive training course but merely drop back to their old units. They teach you how to operate in dangerous conditions but at all times how to remain a team.
Their motto was kill or be killed, you were a killing machine, at one with your equipment. My gunnery improved fourfold and even more when I started sleeping with 'Alex' my marine issue Pulsar Rifle. I soon found I had an edge for long distance shooting or as it is called in the corp. 'SNIPING'.
Tibbs and I managed to graduate with flying colours, well we were still sane, which is more than I can say for some of the others. Then again can I be sure they were sane to start with?