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question: All set? And gets a nod in response followed quickly by a gasping “Yes Sergeant”, and he slaps the young soldier’s helmet as a reward.

Sergeant Davis: Good man Riley, now let’s keep moving. We don’t want to get caught out here. Walshy, what’s the next stop on the list?

The Sergeant knew where they were, and exactly where they were going next. He hardly needed a map to get around the city he grew up in, but he knew the opportunity to sharpen up the skills of his men shouldn’t be missed. Even on such simple things as map reading. Private Walsh needed it most of all, he was a younger soldier and not very confident. The last few years of idleness in the barracks hadn’t done him any favours either and he