Do soldiers count how many bullets they have left?

士兵会数一数他们还剩下几发弹药么？

原文地址：https://www.quora.com/Do-soldiers-count-how-many-bullets-they-have-left

All the time and every minute! The worst thing that a soldier can imagine is the enemy running at him, the soldier taking aim and- CLICK! Out of ammo!
一直都会并且是每分钟都在计算！一个士兵心目中最糟糕的情形大概就是当一个敌人朝他跑过来，然后他举起枪瞄准，咔哒！没子弹了！

During basic training you learn to be aware of the “ammunition situation”, but I think that even without prior instruction this sort of behavior comes naturally.
在基础训练中你就会学到要去注意“弹药数量”的问题，但我想即使是没有前期的指导，这种计算弹药的行为也会自发产生。

During combat I always knew exactly how many bullets I had left in my mags. Even if I fired only one shot I would remove the mag just to reload it for one bullet. The constant counting is also a good method to keep your brain busy and to get distracted from thoughts of fear and panic:
在战斗中我总是留心我的弹夹中到底还有几发子弹。即使我只使用了一发子弹，我也会取下弹夹然后重新把这一发给装上去。让你自己注意计算弹药的数量同时也是一种让你的大脑不会产生害怕和惊恐想法的好方式：

“I shot five bullets, that makes 25 left in the mag plus 4 times 30 in spare mags, plus 150 additional bullets in my bag, sums up to a total of?”
“我使用了5发子弹，这样弹夹就还有30发，还有4个30发子弹的剩余弹夹，另外在我的包里面还有150发额外的子弹，总数有多少？”

This becomes so ingrained that you can wake up combat soldiers in the middle of the night and they will tell you exactly how much ammo they have left.
这种想法是如此的根深蒂固以至于，如果你在半夜叫醒士兵然后问他还有多少弹药剩余，他们会准确的告诉你子弹的数量。