| Padre.............I have been back to my old Regiment a number of times in the last dozen years and have found all the lads younger versions of us. They are more dedicate to their job than we where, even though they still have that daft steak. Now if they can do it then so can the conscripts if the full weight of military disciple is used. In England they made a series about National Service and got about 50 tearaways and young convicts to do what we did in the 1950's. Now when they had got over the initial shock most of them settled down and even started to enjoy and some even signed on in the Army once the they finished the series. Yet there was a very small core who just could not take it and ran away, but there again the same thing happened all those years ago during our training.
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