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Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know

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How to Be a Successful Warfighter

When they're on the front line, so if they're in, during the two or three days, the day has a pattern and each man will be given various jobs at various times. For instance, they're all up to a dawn usually where we're daybreak, where they have what's called stand two. Then after that, they have different duties that spends their day. So there'll be centuries, now centuries, they use periscope. Sometimes they just peer over the top. And then there are lots of people on carrying parties going back at night, for instance,. They go back to get the Russians. There are people who are doing trench repairs, digging out the drainage

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