[Outside Kingsfort]
"...When you use a shovel, remember one thing," Mason lay on the ground, turning his head to look at the reserve cadets behind him, "never expose any part of your body outside the bunker."
After speaking, Mason began to demonstrate how to use a shovel while lying down. He switched from lying on his stomach to lying on his side, holding a shortened pointed shovel horizontally, his arms flew up and down, continuously filling soil into the nearby wicker basket. In the blink of an eye, he had dug out a shallow pit beneath him.
Throughout the process, Mason's body almost stayed glued to the ground, not even his elbows exposed beyond the wicker basket.
Behind Mason, reserve officers from the Second Army Academy, including Houdel, watched collectively as the Quartermaster rolled in the dirt.
Among the reserve officers attending Major Richard Mason's class for the first time, they looked at each other, both feeling amused and incredulous.
