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“It’s true And if he were here right now, he’d be telling you to listen to ined her father wincing at the use of obscenity to hide her fear “You don’t know shit”

“I know that when a gunnery sergeant with your level of training and coets taken out by a yeoodda over the gun oil, which began to spread across herfell down! We were at a full g, and I just … I fell down”

“And in the ence analysts about how Marines would rather die than fail?”

“I didn’t yell,” Bobbie said, not sure if that was the truth Herhad become confused once she was out of the rooun since you cleaned it yesterday?”

“What?” Bobbie said, feeling nauseated and not sure why

“For that matter, how many times had you fired it since you cleaned it the day before that? Or the one before that?”

“Stop it,” Bobbie said, waving one hand li for a place to sit back down

“Have you fired that gun even once since you’ve co? Because I can tell you that you’ve cleaned it every single day you’ve been on board, and several times you’ve cleaned it twice in one day”

“No, I—” Bobbie said, finally sitting doith a thu cleaned the gun before that day “I didn’t know that”

“This is post-traumatic stress disorder, Bobbie It’s not a weakness or some kind of h soht now you’re not able to process what happened to you and yourirrationally because of it,” Martens said, then moved over to crouch in front of her She was afraid for a moment that he’d try to take her hand, because if he did, she’d hit him

He didn’t

“You’re asha to be ashah, coht you that if you just do your job and re, you can deal with any threat Most of all, they taught you that thenext to you on the firing line”

So twitched in her cheek just under her eye, and Bobbie rubbed at the spot hard enough to make stars explode in her vision

“Then you ran into soainst which you had no defense And you lost your teammates and friends”