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Chainfire

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5. And then there is the other problem.

Reply to underpants (Reply #2)

Fri May 26, 2023, 03:07 PM

May 2023

My brother, as a young jr. officer, badly injured his back in a parachute jump. He wouldn't go to sick bay because it would have been a mark on his record that he was weak. Here it is 30 years later and he sleeps on the floor in order to get relief from chronic back pain.

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