Hermetics in the Military

["Basim" <basim326@...>]

Hello everyone, just a quick question on some practical matters. Your 
advice is much appreciated...

Recently, I've signed up to join the Army, and while I still have a 
few months to go before I go off to boot camp (dealing with 
paperwork, physicals and other things), I'm wondering about how I'm 
going to deal with my training after I go. Before that is obviously 
not a problem, but I'm going to be without any time to do any 
exercises but the Step One Physical and possibly Soul, the latter 
represented by me discovering my flaws and probably losing them in 
the process of the training. It might be possible to somehow wake up 
earlier than everyone else, but that would be at around four in the 
morning, and after all that work I would need all the sleep that 
they'll give me.

So, then, the problem - is anyone aware of any way that I could do 
the mental exercises with so little time, and if I have to put them 
off for nine weeks or so, will that affect my progress negatively? If 
so, how much, and is there anything at all that I could do to prevent 
this?

Also, a theoretical matter that I've been tossing around in my head 
since I started this...

Where does warfare fit into the grand scheme of things? I note that 
Mars has its own place in the cosmos, actually above a few other 
spheres in its vibrations (apparently, but I'll freely admit that I'm 
only going from what I've read in PME). Is it a force for change, or 
does it represent the skill of protecting yourself and others, or 
something like that? Your thoughts?

I thank you for your consideration,

- Basim