Conversely, many of the bugs are riddled with machine guns, blown up with grenades, or wiped out by small nuclear devices. Also, many cities and large spaceships are destroyed where millions of people are killed. A drill instructor strikes one cadet in the gut and another on the leg with a baton. He then spars with a cadet and grabs his wrist and graphically breaks it. A drill instructor, showing why knife throwing proficiency is important, throws a knife that impales Ace s hand to a wall.
Cadets shoot each other with some sort of laser guns that stun their opponents.
During one of these exercises using real ammo, a cadet is shot in the head and killed. Johnny is whipped for allowing one of his men to be killed in a training exercise. Johnny and Zander get into a fight where they throw punches and blows to each others face and body. Many spaceships are destroyed by bug plasma shot at them from the planet s surface. A soldier punches Ace, and Rasczak later punches a general.