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Great analogy for life. Better than "Make your bed". It's preparation beats luck.

It also encourages adaptability.

When we trained in the Mohave desert we needed overhead cover. We started to transport corrugated medal, fence stakes, rolls of wire fencing and logs. We mounted them on the sides of armored vehicles such as tanks and M113s. We transported them by C-5s, road and rail.

The SF teams that conducted SR deep into Iraq during Desert Storm, such as SFODA 525, had to develop hide sites that they could transport in by helo and foot.

Good old GI initiative had mechanics developed on the fly tank "Rhino" plows welded onto tanks to bust through the hedge rows.

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