45:17barbed wire setting at night? crazy
45:17The best trial is the trial by fire.
45:18something something experience is the best teacher
45:19Guh, that's gotta be hell on the hands to set up
45:21having to learn on the job like that damn man
45:21they needed bodies and there isn't enough time to train them, so on-job training
45:22mas moblization does that
45:22they have to do this every night and the flares are being fired by the other side to spot them
45:22Life expectancy was a few days at most,
45:22some things cant be trained
45:25no time, gotta mobilize
45:25basically just dig and build fence
45:27:fireworks::fireworks:
45:30Slicing their hands open
45:32Desperate times desperate measures
45:32no time to waste, gotta get the gay heroes in action pronto
45:34taught how to think not how to act, in about 2-4 weeks of basic training usually
45:34@cipher8390 snipers were not really a thing back then
45:35:_pippaStare::_pippaStare::_pippaStare:
45:37Also making wire is not part of normal training
45:37Handling Barb wire barehanded
45:39We are watching peak cinema, I see.
45:40German had a man problem
45:40They trained them for a different type of warfare
45:41Modern basic training is a recent invention, and most useful training goes on at the unit level.