sure have, I couldn’t beleive when he told me the newer testing, what a joke it is.
When he told the about the run I asked if that was battle combat kit being worn and he looked stunned and replied no it was not this is sneakers, shorts and a shirt.
They had to do a walk run in full Kit, as the Limeys, say to get out, I forget the distance. We did a four mile run every morning in boots sans fatigue jacket. This was at the start of the Army DI system but out of Basic Training we ran many of our DI’s in to the ground, I ran in the middle I never had that second kick.
But, the inevitable, realty struck when I went to VN, no matter hard the training is it ain't as hard as the real thing.