Another prevalent theme in Jiinger's Storm of Steel is the unpredictability of who receives the savagery of war. longer is incredibly lucky surviving being hit fourteen times by his count, a large number of wounds by any standard. But many of Jiinger's comrades are not as lucky. On nearly every page J iinger mentions other soldiers who received the misfortunes of war. Soldiers are constantly being killed even during relatively calm times at the front. Men are killed from random artillery or mortar barrages, snipers bullets, and going out on night patrols. Despite all the people being killed in close proximity to longer he manages to escape with his life. He does not pass off his ability to stay alive as completely luck though. Jnger says that \"it is hard to see these things as completely random,\" after receiving a minor wound saved him from certain death in the woods of St-Pierre-Vaast. Jnger also received lucky break during the Somme at Guillemont, where after he was wounded and evacuated his entire platoon was annihilated. Jiinger continues to receive many more wounds, the most severe of