Is That Really Such a Good Idea?

We had been in Saudi for nearly 2 days and were staying at an abandoned track stadium. Our unit had live ammunition and we had set up checkpoints and done drills to prepare for a possible attack. One particular afternoon a Saudi officer of the royal marines came to talk to one of our commanders. He said he was preparing a mock attack with his highly trained marines and wanted to see if we could respond correctly to it. I'm afraid its not possible our commander said, we can't just do a mock exercise. The Saudi said that he was assuring his men won't get to physical and only had blanks in their weapons. They will begin within the hour and we will stand up in the stadium and watch. Our commander said (alarmed at this point) you can't do that you have to call it off! The Saudi said why do you want me to do this ? Our commander remarked that our men have real ammunition and were kind of jumpy right now. The Saudi cancelled the exercise immediately. Being prepared sometimes means asking questions in advanced. God has given us the ability to reason so go ahead and ask, the day is coming are you prepared?