Trust completely eroded after sergeant pretends to lose count of pushups
Will I never trust again?
By Whiskey Fueled Tirade
FORT CARSON, Colo. – Pvt. Mason Young lost complete faith and trust in humanity after his squad leader, Sgt. Martin Bird, pretended to lose count during an in-cadence pushup session at PT this morning.
“What just happened?” a stunned Young asked the soldier next to him. “We clearly just did 10 pushups and he started us back at one again. Ten pushups— I mean, 20 if you think about it— gone as if they never happened.”
Young stared into the stadium lights overhead while doing flutter kicks on the damp early morning ground.
“If he would lie about something as trivial as pushups, what else would he lie to us about,” Young thought aloud. “I mean, are we even the best squad in the platoon like he always tells us?”
As the group formed back up, Young did his best to wipe the grass and snow from his back and PT pants.
“Was pretending to lose count just a metaphor?” Young asked his roommate as they walked back to the barracks. “I mean, is he trying to tell us that the idea …
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