Some of the things they carried are items that may seem insignificant to us in ordinary circumstances but invaluable to soldiers in combat. O’Brien knows that these men needed little things like matches or mosquito repellant to survive. Items like these are taken for granted because they are so readily available in normal everyday life. But, in war, out in the middle of the jungle, matches would be invaluable to soldier’s survival. Other items that O’Brien mentions that they carried were cigarettes. Combat is very stressful to a soldier. Smoking cigarettes would help the soldiers to calm their nerves and pass t

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