Inoculation.

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Basic military training Ukrainian recruits English style. Quick and dirty no frills rushed and hurried combat training. Basics being taught and nothing more. No spit and polish or barracks/parade ground inspections. Just the basics as you will need to fight and stay alive on the battlefield.

"The crash course turning Ukrainians into soldiers — in the UK"

"The British Army is training 10,000 Ukrainian civilians to be battle-ready fighters. Matthew Campbell reports from the West Country"

Courtesy Matthew Campbell, The Sunday Times October 02 2022.

"A man lies groaning on the path with a red stump where his leg was. Ukrainian recruits run through smoke to kneel behind sandbags and fire at the enemy on a sun-baked hillside."

"It looks like a scene from the war in eastern Ukraine, but this is southern England and the casualty an amputee actor, engaged by the British Army to help train Ukrainian civilians in rudimentary soldiering skills to defend their homeland from Russia."

"The faces of these raw recruits betray their anxiety as bursts of live machinegun fire crackle overhead — the idea is to 'inoculate' them, to familiarize them with the sound so they won’t panic in combat."

INOCULATE YOU TO THE BACKGROUND SOUNDS OF COMBAT, ESPECIALLY AUTOMATIC WEAPONS FIRE. THINK DEMOLITION SIMULATION CHARGES GOING OFF AS WELL.

See this too from 2005. An additional valuable device simulating the battlefield environment. Soldiers for the first time encountering the stench of a decaying human body less likely to panic when in combat.

"'SMELL OF DEATH' FOR ISRAELI DRILLS"

"The Israeli Army 'has started using bottled chemical substances resembling the stench of dead bodies in simulated training exercises,'" 

"During an exercise two weeks ago, marking the end of a specialized workshop for non-commissioned rescue officers, bottles containing the 'smell of dead bodies' were scattered around the simulated 'disaster site' to provide a feeling of real-life disaster . . . 'The strong smell [of decaying human bodies] is a significant part of every rescue incident,'. . . 'It's important that our soldiers, who will have to handle situations like this in the future, adapt to a situation as close to reality as possible, to prevent shock during the moment of truth.'"

"Prevent shock during the moment of truth." Yes indeed! Hey, nobody ever said any of this was going to be easy, did they!

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