As the saying goes, you don't know the cost of firewood and rice until you're in charge. I originally thought being a company commander was just about leading the troops in training, shouting commands, acting profound when nothing was wrong, and letting the soldiers handle things when there was trouble… But when I became a company commander myself
, I realized it was nothing like that at all. There were over a hundred men under my command, and even a small problem from each of them could keep me busy all day. Actually, the core members of this company were all veterans; they all knew how to teach the new recruits. The biggest problem was—I was a new recruit, and I didn't know how to command my men.
War is no joke, it's not like kids playing cops and robbers with wooden guns and fiddling
