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Originally Posted by Bayonet14
My 2 cents - go w/a stress test for all enlisted and OBC personnel - model it after GEN Granges' Mangudai.
"He had a selection process that he put potential leaders of his force through," Grange said in early December, 24 hours into the most recent Mangudai exercise. The Mangudai commander would take his troops out into the wilderness for several days, deprive them of food and sleep, and then present them with physical and mental challenges to wear down their bodies and their brains.
"It had to do with inducing stress, and then watching how those possible leaders adapted to those conditions," Grange said, seated in his Spartan quarters in this Belgian military camp where the latest Mangudai session took place.
By Sean D. Naylor
Link to article: http://www.geocities.com/air_mech_strike/training.htm |
Bayonet14-
You should have read your history - the Mongudai were origibnally led by a Mongol named Yasutai - they were the famed wolf warriors so effectively used by Ghengis Khan. And they would starve themselves for seven days before battle in order to be as hungy as the wolves they emulated - only the best were initiated into this elite force.
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