[Organic Panic]

Combat situations can not be prepared for. To paraphrase Saving Private Ryan, “You do the thing you’re scared of then find the courage after.”

[Kartographer]

I always think of the scene where the Translator/Clerk freeze during combat and stands frozen in fear on the stairs while a fellow solider fights for his life and loose it. The thought of condemning him for his cowardice flack in my thoughs, but it was quickly replaced with the thought would I do better? I hope and pray that I would, but I will not know until I face the test.

[archy]

Combat situations can not be prepared for.

Well, of course they can be prepared for; that's why it's called basic training. Of course not every combat situation can be anticipated, but about 95% of what happens in day-after-day-after day of routine, unending fighting is just that: routine...and if you've survived that first day, and then a couple more, of a very unforgiving school, you'll likely get along pretty well unless something really out of the ordinary happens or you get really unlucky.

And count on this: most every day, you'll see someone get really unlucky. Try to make sure it's not you.