You don’t seem to understand that is a complete difference in athletics and combat.
Unless and until you face REAL combat, you do not know how you will react...PERIOD...
You may think you know, but you really don’t....
The toughest, most grueling athletic events will be walked away from at the end whether you win or lose...
You can DIE in combat...Trying to equate the two is ridiculous.....
I’m through with this subject...
Unless you’ve been there, you haven’t clue what you are talking about....
Agreed on all points.
We had trials out in north Norway for the Mountain and Arctic warfare courses and a woman was assigned to see how the unit and she could work.
I am talking form experience now.
She could not carry the 90 pound back pack , she had half the men chasing her and the other half resented her because she was not pitching in with all the other guys. Men wanted to carry her equipment thinking when it was over they would be in bed with her and she did lead tem on to get her way.
It was her time of the year and being out above the treeline there I no cover so we all had to turn away in minus freezing temps, She kept us waiting every day for the bathroom and her time of the month.
After two days she could not handle it what so ever and thought the other guys would do her work.
Well I told the guys she caries her own weight because in a blizzard you can’t see too well and if one goes off a cliff then it would be their equipment as everyone is responsible for their stuff.
When the course finished I wrote a report stating all of this and it went to the higher ups.
To equate athletes to military combat unit is shocking and for the record I am not old nor did I live in in 1967.