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The following Reflection represents SSgt Kevin C. Anders’s legacy of their military service from 1978 to 1983. If you are a Veteran, consider preserving a record of your own military service, including your memories and photographs, on Togetherweserved.com (TWS), the leading archive of living military history. The Service Reflections is an easy-to-complete self-interview, located on your TWS Military Service Page, which enables you to remember key people and events from your military service and the impact they made on your life.
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I grew up in a large city and yet was near a river and spent a lot of time in the woods and banks surrounding it. I love animals and the outdoors. A training assignment was Survival School in Fairchild, Washington. My team was mostly my age from the South East US and mostly rural communities. To enforce the survival mentality, we were given very little to eat before they kicked us loose in the woods of Washington. I found a Snowshoe Rabbit huddled in the deep snow and quickly converted him into a grocery item.
The instructor was very pleased and used him as a demonstration to the trainees on the subject of skinning and preparation for the fire. I was surprised when my fellow Airmen all started to act like this was making them ill and averting their attention. In an unbelievable outcome, I ate well that day and the remainder of the exercise. Even the fish I caught in the streams affected their hunger. I guess they had good grocery stores where they grew up and never asked where the steak came from.
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