“You can’t put your hands on a fellow soldier outside of sanctioned training. Period. That’s a disciplinary offense,” he says. “But skating from squad chores is its own offense. Everyone does the work in the Corps, Parker. We do whatever needs to be done, whenever it needs to be done. You can’t just leave your squad a pair of hands short because you’re not in the mood for the task. That sort of thing gets people killed in the field. Switch that shit off, right the hell now. Before you find yourself on the receiving end of a blanket party at 0300 instead of just a dirty rag to the face. The
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