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I was once sent to a survival training course in 2013.

Lasted about three weeks.

And for the last week of the course, they didn't feed us.

They showed us how to start fires, how to find water, how to set traps for squirrels, rabbits, that kind of thing.

But honestly, we just didn't eat. We were moving around a lot

through deep snow and it was cold, so after a couple of days, yeah, we were all pretty hungry.

About three days into our starvation, one of the instructors brought us a rabbit. Now, we didn't

have any weapons with us, so the instructor looks around the group and asks,

okay, who wants to kill it?

I'm looking around at everyone else because I certainly don't want to kill it.

The look on everyone's faces was pretty priceless, but the instructor made it clear that

someone would have to do it.

And that's when everyone then looked at me, like Marines just kill rabbits for fun or

something. So anyway, I said, sure, I'll do it. I'd never killed anything larger than an insect with

my bare hands before. I'll save you the gory details, but basically I had to break its neck. Then the

instructor showed two guys how to skin it,

and then he took the head off and said, who wants the eyeballs? I had been told by a Marine buddy

to make sure I volunteered for this part because the eyeballs have a lot of electrolytes, and I was

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