Then he heard Tarku's voice, both directly and in his radio. On top of that they hadn't gotten their scheduledresupply, and had been on half rations. Which onthe map was marked liberally with wetland symbols, much of it with the subsymbol for brush, and In Komars, the authorities didn't even allow ship's crewashore, not even to handle lines on the dock! Longshoremen wereassigned to that.
How many of the original 2nd can say that? he thought. The big trainee turned and went back into the barracks. Someone passed about seventy feet to his left, tall andslender, sinewy, wearing Bird loincloth and battle harness, anddisappeared out of his small field of vision. He'd never make it in this place.
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