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<blockquote data-quote="200Meters" data-source="post: 755089" data-attributes="member: 23727"><p>Back when I was still doing annual reserve duty (at 56, I am long since discharged) with the Israel Defense Forces, I remember being on the Lebanese border one year on motorized patrol. I remember my first shift, the 23:00-07:00 shift. We (driver, Bedouin tracker, officer, sergeant and me, the medic) rode around in a modified light truck. I was acutely aware that if we got into a firefight or were attacked, etc. these guys' lives would depend on <em>me</em>. That realization was like drinking 100 cups of coffee. I was absolutely, searingly, totally wide awake.</p><p></p><p>(In the 11 years that I did annual reserve duty, I never even had to point my weapon at someone let alone fire it. The only people I had to treat were in exercises and the most serious thing I ever had to do not in an exercise was take a splinter the size of a redwood out of a soldier's hand and clean and patch hum up.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="200Meters, post: 755089, member: 23727"] Back when I was still doing annual reserve duty (at 56, I am long since discharged) with the Israel Defense Forces, I remember being on the Lebanese border one year on motorized patrol. I remember my first shift, the 23:00-07:00 shift. We (driver, Bedouin tracker, officer, sergeant and me, the medic) rode around in a modified light truck. I was acutely aware that if we got into a firefight or were attacked, etc. these guys' lives would depend on [I]me[/I]. That realization was like drinking 100 cups of coffee. I was absolutely, searingly, totally wide awake. (In the 11 years that I did annual reserve duty, I never even had to point my weapon at someone let alone fire it. The only people I had to treat were in exercises and the most serious thing I ever had to do not in an exercise was take a splinter the size of a redwood out of a soldier's hand and clean and patch hum up.) [/QUOTE]
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