The main job of a solider isn’t peacekeeping, building new roads and schools, or shoveling snow in Toronto.
A solider’s foremost task is to kill and that’s exactly what Jake Olafsen signed up for when he joined the Royal Marines.
“I figured joining the Corps was a sure bet to get some trigger time, and I was not wrong,” Olafsen writes in his new book, “Wearing the Green Beret: A Canadian with the Royal Marine Commandos.”
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