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PAUL SKENES IS TRYING to sleep. But he's too tall for his Air Force bed, so his feet dangle into a sink in his dorm room, just a few feet from two other people who are also trying to sleep.
He's at basic training in June 2021, exhausted in his room alongside a randomly assigned fellow "doolie" and a randomly assigned Korean exchange student. Every cadet is given a standard-issue 7-foot bed inside a standard-issue cramped dorm room.
Skenes is 6-foot-5, 225 pounds -- on his way to 6-6, 250 -- and he has grown so fast that his body seems a little foreign to him.