We spent the next five months cycling through each of the four branches of service on two-week rotations. An Ulané Jhinura company had four platoons, and a platoon had four squads, with six members per squad. This worked out to rotating the platoons individually through each branch of service. The four squads would typically be attached to separate active groups for the particular branch of service. This arrangement was a sort of apprenticeship.
Ulané JhinuraThis rotation, my squad was assigned to a veteran unit of Foresters. Now that most of the winter chill was gone, this rotation would be a lot more pleasant. There had been too many miserable patrols in the rain and mud. In generaI, I liked Forester duty best because it wasn’t boring or monotonous. So far, aside from the rain, mud, and
