"[meeting his new platoon] So, here you are. It's the custom to assign one old hand to every new platoon. You're the new platoon. I'm the old hand. In training camp they filled you full of fancy information on how to be a soldier. We're going to work hard to forget all that. I'll teach you practi... [to Josef Behm] Listen to me, boy. I'll teach you practical things, like how to put your diapers on in the front lines, [puts his smoking pipe in his mouth] and how to kill Frenchies. You won't have long to wait before I baptise you. But first, we're gonna give you some hot food and we're gonna let you get some sleep, and then I'm gonna take you out on your first Patrol, tonight."
January 1, 1970
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