070: Combat Uniform

May 19, 2022 – 2 minutes read – 228 words

For my Eighth Army, I decided to create combat uniforms in addition to the normal dress uniforms.
Our budget had room in it that the other armies didn’t have, we’re a bit small.
Though we didn’t invest in any metal armor, it’s too loud for our purposes.

Our battle uniforms are covered with green, black, and brown splotches, excepting our leather boots and breastplate.
You might call them a BDU, or battle dress uniform, like the modern combat uniforms of Earth armies.

I also had the soldiers equipped with a waist belt with a one-handed sword and dagger.
Breastplates had storage for shurikens and other items, to prevent them from rattling.
This should drastically improve our covert ability in forests!

I hope, at least.

The egg I found during the outdoor exercise finally hatched!

It really did.

But it wasn’t a bird, it was a snake.

Yeah…

I thought it was strange that the shell was soft and not hard.
I asked someone knowledgable and they explained that there were snakes that would lay eggs in a bird’s nest to let the birds warm the egg.
Obviously, the snake eats the bird eggs first, so the only remaining eggs are snake eggs.
It’s really clever.

So I make sure to catch mice and rats every day to give it to my new snake.

Pets are cute, aren’t they?