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with the following course the system was changed and 3 weeks was the required time and a new method of squad [[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]]ing inaugurated. And as it happened my streak of rather ill luck began while I was in this final course. Just as a ball team gets the [[strikethrough]] ball [[/strikethrough]] bad "breaks" and loses the game so did I get a series of bad breaks and get set back time and again. I finished in 3 weeks, but with a good deal of mental strain withal; I also had a deal of worry over that commission which isn't of sufficient importance to worry about at all!

In S.A.G. we went through another schooling in Lewis and Vickers' machine guns and learned these weapons rather thoroughly. The Lewis gun I had had all the way from Long