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Why pre-deployment feels like you've failed to prepare your soldiers

I have been training these soldiers for two years and tomorrow we deploy to real combat for the first time and I feel like I taught them everything wrong.

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Your soldiers head into real danger tomorrow, and you're terrified you didn't prepare them well enough.

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