A note from the author.
I teach Basic Military Qualification (Land) which is what they call the SQ (Soldier Qualification) these days. Basically it’s the course after basic training where a soldier learns actual army stuff, machine guns, M-72 section attacks winter survival, grenades etc. After the field training exercise #1 and #2 I get the candidates to fill out a few lines in a book I have started. The next course after them gets to read this book when they show up. The book is titled “Things I Learned the Hard Way in SQ/BMQ(L)”
(Submitted by Magerin Blakely)
- Ensure your spare C9 (machine gun) barrel is tight on your back or you could be eating it during a section attack
- Label kit with full last name or you will make the MBdr (me) very angry
- Do not sleep in your trench, even if there’s no rain in the forecast. You _will_ wake up wet
- Don’t pack counting on the weather being +30C all week with no rain because this is an army base and it could snow tomorrow.
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