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Thats very clever I must remember that line.
This thread reminds me of a training exercise I did in the Army . It involved a group of enemy at a night camp with sentries and we had to clandestinely , crawl , stalk , whetever as close as we could without being detected. Ultimately we were supposed to silenly take out a sentry .
As the exerscise started I decided to hang back and see what others achieved and how the enemy group operated. I quickly realised that they had all the advantages because . 1/ They knew we are coming . 2/ They had done it many times before and new every hiding spot in that area.
The mission statement was just to move in as silently and as secreted as possible and take out a sentry. No mention of how far to move in and where the sentry had to be . So with every soldier just getting nailed by the instructers way before they got close . I decided to change the rules of the game. I found a real good hiding spot and camoed myself with leaves and brush and waited and waited until every other soldier was captured. Eventually the instructers started yelling out orders to give up , because they all wanted to go home I guess. However in the end they started serching for me as I could hear them talking , saying " he might of got bitten by a snake or had a heart attack" . Eventually an instructer came right near to my hide and I nailed him .
They were yelling at me and jumping up and down about the rules of the exercise and all this crap but I just kept saying " Mission accomplished Sir !!"
The exercise was just to give some experience at night time sorties and no soldier had ever nailed an instructer sentry before. Later I was told that they were fairly impressed but they would never say so to me. Sometimes when the odds are all against you , you have to change the rules of the game so to speak.
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