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Mickie_Cricket
As a 13 year old CCF cadet, I went on a training day out. We were given a pack of camo paint each and told to camo up. A young commissioned officer who was with us said even I had to apply it because it's about breaking up facial features, not covering up whiteness.
So without a mirror or any prior experience we all set to applying camo.
At the end of the day an older commissioned officer told us we all looked like idiots because we'd all applied our camo terribly. He then singled me out and said I was coloured already and didn't need further colouring in.
When I got home after a long train journey with plenty of people staring at me, I went to the bathroom, and realised instead of the streaks and lines I thought I'd applied, I'd just applied a brown face on top of my already brown face.
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