My own version was inspired many years ago as a TA soldier by the SM who always quoted "Ours not to reason why/Ours but to do and die" (it was probably the only poetry he knew, and certainly all he thought mattered) and the soldiers' song when things go wrong (it's sung to "Auld Lang Syne"): "We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here." Ideally, if that's the word, sung slowly and morosely to the sound of pelting rain and a broken lorry motor.
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