SUBUNIT COURSE

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This week was going to be the long-hyped urban combat training week - advertised by our superiors as probably the most fun we’ll have, the highlight of ours service. The week of up close and personal action, furious knife-edge battles and ultimate bad-assery in window-hopping, door-kicking and stair-sliding fights.

Only I wasn’t going. Instead I’d be partaking in testing and assembling communications equipment - testing and configuring all our switch modules and servers.

That was probably the closest to what I had hoped and intended to do during this service. A week in relative peace and calm (since everybody’s away), tinkering about with computing equipment, and figuring out why a roomful of switches just merged into a 160-port monstrosity.

Still...I just kind of wish I could have had my cake and to eat it too.