Today Everything Changes: Quick Read
“It started off at 07.00 with a six-mile cross-country run. Anybody who came in behind the commanding officer had to run the six miles again on Sunday afternoon. All of us wanted to put one foot in front of the other as quickly as we could to stay in front of him. Besides, the quicker you got the run out of the way, the more time you had to get ready for the drill parade.
The whole battalion would be on parade in their best dress uniforms: gleaming boots and brasses, with scrubbed white belts. I...nspection wasn’t in the rooms this time but out on the parade square. It wasn’t only our kit that the sergeant major was inspecting, it was also our bodies. He checked our ears to make sure we were cleaning them, and our hair, what was left of it, because it could never be greasy.
The only concession was zits. If you had zits, you had zits. Not even the British Army could get rid of them. Shaving rash, on the other hand, was a big no-no. The sergeant major would want to know why you had it. Hadn’t you been shown how to shave or how to deal with a rash?MoreLess
The whole battalion would be on parade in their best dress uniforms: gleaming boots and brasses, with scrubbed white belts. I...nspection wasn’t in the rooms this time but out on the parade square. It wasn’t only our kit that the sergeant major was inspecting, it was also our bodies. He checked our ears to make sure we were cleaning them, and our hair, what was left of it, because it could never be greasy.
The only concession was zits. If you had zits, you had zits. Not even the British Army could get rid of them. Shaving rash, on the other hand, was a big no-no. The sergeant major would want to know why you had it. Hadn’t you been shown how to shave or how to deal with a rash?MoreLess
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