Blam!

Kang Jin-Ho's K2 rifle spat out a flame just as the target began rising up. It had just started to rise when it was forced back.

'What a hassle...'

He knew he could hit his targets while standing up, so this exercise in assuming different positions to shoot depending on the distance puzzled him to no end. Who would always stick to lying flat to shoot at distant enemies or stand up against nearby ones in actual combat situations anyway?

Training to find an optimal shooting posture to snipe targets regardless of distance seemed like a far wiser way to spend time for Kang Jin-Ho. He felt that this training wasn't meant to enhance the combat capabilities of the recruits but was only done for the sake of training. It felt as if the real purpose of this was to waste everyone's time inconveniently. Besides...

'Why train us in this manner, then make us do real shooting lying flat on the ground?'

The entirety of the morning training consisted of charging forward and then aiming from various awkward positions. But the afternoon target practice involved the recruits entering trenches and fixing their rifles on the tripods to fire. What on earth was that waste of energy all about?

Kang Jin-Ho came across several more unacceptable quirks of the Korean military so far, but he chose not to express dissatisfaction with them. That decision was partly influenced by his father's advice. Mostly though, he knew he would get nothing in return for trying to change the system.

Despite the rising dissatisfaction level in...