stackyFACTSRiding in an armored personnel carrier is the ultimate test of claustrophobia. Dozens of heavily armed soldiers are shoved shoulder-to-shoulder into a windowless steel box smelling of diesel fuel and sweat, blindly bumping over rough terrain while hoping nobody gets wildly motion sick.
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