In 3 B.E., Timiou transferred from the regular infantry ranks to become a commando, and entered commando training at the Pomeroy Barracks, as a part of the 26th Royal Tyran infantry Special Tactics Group. He became friends with Pvt. Dominic Santiago, and attended a class with him where survival instructor Sgt. Bernadette Mataki taught them how to properly kill chickens. After she showed them the proper way to silently kill a chicken, Timiou told her that the recruitment posters had never mentioned anything about strangling chickens. Bernie told him that they did not strangle chickens, but killed them humanely by snapping their neck, and that he had already been trained in how to do that on humans without complaint. When Bernie demonstrated on a live chicken, Timiou was greatly disturbed by