It’s pretty stressful slinging HE downrange nonstop and do it correctly without screwing up the firing data because you can go to jail for messing up the firing data.
Fire out of the “box”?
Rear of the piece face the piece fall in, bend over for the rectal inspection coming.
And mistakes can kill you on a howitzer, so you’re going “pleasedontscrewuppleasedontscrewup”.
And you’ve been awake for 72 straight no sleep.
No, none of us had the tweaker twitches from it.
> And you’ve been awake for 72 straight no sleep.
> No, none of us had the tweaker twitches from it.
OK, I get that.
But thankfully it sounds like _you_ weren’t constantly on the _receiving_ end! :-)
Ukraine has been under missile, drone, and artillery fire for quite a while.
There was once a teacher, he didn’t twitch either. But there was a sudden loud noise - someone had lit off a fire cracker in the classroom. The teacher was nowhere to be seen: he was on the floor looking around.
Surely you know what _some_ of our Vietnam vets were like after their return?