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What happens to a reasonably intelligent, moral and patriotic young man when he is taken from his comfortable American life and transported to a place where his only purpose is killing and the people around him are all killers? He lives in the most primitive conditions imaginable. For food, clothing and shelter he must rely only on what he can carry on his back. He is exposed to a variety of poisonous snakes, scorpions and centipedes and to swarms of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. When it is hot, there will be no escaping the heat. He will toil and sweat until it seems there is not a drop of moisture left in his body. If it rains for a month, he will be wet for the entire month, his feet wrinkling and cracking, his boots disintegrating and his clothes turning to rags. And if all that isn't bad enough, everywhere he goes little brown men are lurking in the bushes and trying to kill him. It does More
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