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A Gurkha subaltern whom I met later told me that commanding a platoon of them was like leading a group of perfectly-disciplined ten-year-olds, and I believed him.

— George MacDonald Fraser Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)

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Only very young soldiers and head-cases object to boredom in war-time.

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