Field Exercise - What Changed Your Mind About Field Exercise?

I didn't know What I wanted to be when I was heading into the basic school. We got our class picked up in uh, october So our first field exercise is sometime in mid mid-November and it got down to five degrees Everybody's cantines were frozen. No one knew like put the cantine upside down or put it in your sleeping bag with you. Like you try to buy in the mre's breaking your teeth off like Uh All our like cold leather gear is super old sucks And like don't know how to layer don't know anything about how to live outside in cold at least the majority of us.