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The stuff in the BNA rations is made of processed protein, enhanced with nutrients and vitamins and artificially flavored to make it palatable. They say it’s deliberately designed to taste merely tolerable because it discourages excessive consumption, but I think that no scientific process can make BNA rations a culinary delight. In the end, it still tastes like they used ground-up feet and assholes for the raw protein, which is probably not too far from the truth.
“We wash out fifty percent of recruits in Basic Training, and a quarter of you will get killed or maimed in your enlistment period without ever collecting your service certificate at the end. There are forty of you standing on this spot right now, and only twenty of you at most will graduate Basic Training. Only fifteen of you will muster out in five years.
It feels strangely liberating to do precisely as instructed. I don’t have to worry about displeasing the sergeant as long as I follow his orders exactly. For now, I resolve to not even scratch my nose unless I’m ordered by someone with chevrons on their collar.
