The young captain earned______for leading several successful missions in the past, but his troops did not_______ him when he ordered them to march through the_______ mud of a swamp during the most recent training mission. If anyone complained, the captain simply repeated the_____ "We sweat in peace so that we don't bleed in war." What many of the soldiers didn't realize was that the captain had planned this rigorous training mission as a(an)_____ to relieve the tension of living in the confineing barracks in the months prior to the troops deployment.


Options: catharsis, kudos, putrid internecine efficacious, revere, maxim