Snapshot
An SAS soldier sitting on a small, wooden bed, in a humid, crowded and cream coloured room, surrounded by green bags and clothes on the ground.
As I sat there, excited for my first deployment as a part of the one and only Special Air Service Regiment, one of the more experienced operators came up to me and said something that I thought I would never hear from such an elite group member.
He said to me, "I hope you're ready and prepared for this deployment, because you need to make sure that you're OK with me putting a gun to someone's head and pulling the trigger. Because I don't want to read about it in 10 or so years." I thought that it was a just in case and only for dangerous Taliban members, I was wrong.
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Short StoryThis short story based on the real events of the Australian SAS war crimes.
