Emptybee
1d ago
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." Training exercises are deliberately as close to the real thing as possible. That means safety rules that exist in peacetime are often waived. Flying low to the ground, jumping out of perfectly good aircraft, operating a boat with no lights or radar, for example, are all things that can easily go catastrophically wrong. But the military trains to do them anyway because practicing while no one is shooting at you is still safer than learning while under fire.
If Cryptonomicon tickled your fancy, check out Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, a trilogy which utilizes the same sort of parallel story lines.
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