MILITARY SERVICE MEMOIRS - WEEK 31

SUBUNIT COURSE

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The beginning of the end. While everything else thus far been has been throwing general-purpose courses at us, giving a foundation of skills, this one’s more to the point. Subunit course is a “this squad, doing this thing in this platoon, as part of this company” course. The end stage of our training.

Consequently, this week was spent on equipment. Each squad now has its own equipment to manage and maintain. And since I’m the trained driver in our squad, I was now assigned to and handed the keys to our server truck.

It….made me unreasonably giddy, the notion of this personal, assigned-to-me, equipment. Dat one’s my truck. I drive dat. And I never could quite figure out why…even if I have a hypothesis - the truck assigned to me would the backbone of any network we set up since that’s the one where our servers are set up. Could it be that in my brain, thoughts are veering in the direction of “This truck is important. It was assigned to me. Ergo, I am important.”?

Well. As I said, just a hypothesis. Still…

My truck.

You can’t have it.

mine