Those Special Forces trainees must be very bold
Posted 02.19.2009 at 11:35 am
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Live-Fire Exercise at Fort Bragg
Spc. Mike Pryor
Hell on earth in America can be found in North Carolina, where soldiers go through a process called "stress inoculation," and one researcher found what makes the Special Forces so special.
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Good article on stress resistance training. It affirms the truth that "the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
I hope every branch of the armed services take this research to heart to make their initial periods of training as stressful as possible. By not doing so they may play a hand in signing a young soldier's death warrant.
Interesting article on stress training. By far, we do have the best trained military in the world. Our special forces guys are second to none. True heroes.
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great article. It's good to see our military is so well trained. The link between the heartbeats and neuropeptides is interesting.
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I've known people who've gone through SERE (Survivial, Evade, Resist and Escape) training and it is NOT something to look forward to. When they say they beat the crap out of you, they're not joking. It's the most realistic training out there short of actually throwing you into a real POW camp or al-Qaeda torture house.
I'm glad my job never required me to go through that training. Yikes.