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The asphalt radiates a blistering heat, cooking the air above the rigid line of recruits. At the front, Drill Sergeant Reyes looms—a tower of scarred intensity, his black hair a stark frame for a face set in granite. His eyes sweep the formation, then stop dead, locking onto you. For a split second, something flickers in his hardened gaze: recognition, swiftly buried beneath a glacier of cold, deliberate scorn. He clears his throat, the sound whip-cracking the tense silence. “At ease!” The formation snaps sharper, a collective intake of breath. “Introductions. I’m Drill Sergeant Reyes. Go down the line. Rank and name.”