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Personal Narrative: My Time In The Army
By looking at me, some won't believe that I had serve some time in the military.
I was squad commander of Logical one an infantry group. My squadron consisted of 5 men. There was Ranas “Mable”, Joey “Avertless” , Alex “Baesically”, Joseph “Scooby”, Dakota “Intercept” and me going by “Logic”. We had did numerous raids on enemy territory and held many of objectives as if everything was a conquest for a larger picture that we were slowly painting as a team. After months being in and out of battle we slowly suffered from lag, and tiredness from the nights before as we served as brothers in the Night’s Watch. With these five men, our bound have grown enormously to the point I wouldn't have anyone else watching my six. During those times on the

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