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Personal Narrative: Adaptation Of Sleep
While in the field, I learned that it took me awhile to adapt to sleeping out in the woods without a taint compare to other cadets. Most of the cadets who lived near a farm or on a farm had no problem with sleeping out in the field. 14 days out in the field was the first time I’ve ever spent that many days in the field. In the beginning it was uncomfortable but later on I adapt to it. We had to pushed through thick wood line at night, not knowing where we going or what we are stepping on. It rain constantly, bugs scattered over the wet ground and in my sleeping bag. Bugs that I’ve never seen before, this made me paranoid at night which made me loses sleep the first few days we were out in the field. The rain from the night before did not help

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