My advice: Concentrate on yourself above anything else, follow orders but also know how those orders affect you, serve your country but never forget you are serving yourself first. The objective is not to die honorably but to survive dutifully. What else would you add?

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I would just tell you to keep the discipline!

I think you summed it all up perfectly. I love the part about dutifully surviving

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