The loops on the front of my battle armor hold a dozen grenades for my rifle’s launcher. Four of them are rubber rounds, two are buckshot rounds, and the remaining six are chemical crowd-control munitions, the kind the military calls “less lethal,” which is technically a true designation. For truth in advertising, the term should be “very slightly less lethal.” They’re filled with a particularly unpleasant chemical agent that will creep through any sort of mask or filter short of sealed battle armor. In Basic, we all had to endure ten seconds of exposure to the riot gas in the chemical warfare
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