"In my experience, one's employer pays the warriors for 'real' training," Parcival observes drily. "There is only so much that all the fancy simulators and academy training will prepare you for. The sheer terror when a large-caliber autocannon fires with the business end pointed at you, or when a PPC blast turns half your 'Mech's frontal armor to vapor and you can hear the screaming of the missiles following that shot... no amount of formal training will teach you to deal with it."