"disposable soldier" chapter 17. the long road home. frontline. winter of '23 the original can be found here:   e16c9ca9a21c77a2960065ab-applicatio npdf.pdf part 1/? stopor came to visit us to announce the final order: the battalion command couldn't handle the situation, and the morale of the personnel was low. this meant reorganization. a vehicle would arrive for us during the night and take us back to russia. our spirits lifted. the mourning for suleiman was over; we were excited. we were going home! we spent the entire day packing and waiting. late in the evening, a ural arrived for us. half of our platoon, led by stopor, was already in the truck, and there wasn't enough room. we tried to load our belongings inside, and we had accumulated a lot of things. we had settled in comfortably over these months: water containers, a generator, gasoline, a chainsaw, and tools. all of this wouldn't fit in the truck: there was only one for the entire platoon. the senior guys decided to load up our vehicle with our belongingswe also wanted to take the vehicle itself with us. we somehow managed to cram everything in, and what didn't fit, we gave to our neighbours.
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