|
Yes, that was when the very first cammy BDU's were issued, the ones that shrank like a M-F when you first washed them. Also hot as hell on a North Carolina summer since the chemicals in them absorbed IR as well as visible light.
SFC "OG's" Magdaleno later made CSM.
We didn't worry about a "physique" or any kind of "tables" or "BMI" or "percentages." If the Captain said run five miles, we ran five miles. If the Captain said run ten miles we ran ten miles. If he said "rough terrain jump with LBE/CWIE/ruck" we rigged it up and out we went, even if we had never made a rough terrrain jump before.
I think if he said "we want to see if we can jump a 75mm pack howitzer" some of us would have immediately started thinking: "Now, if I take two H-harnesses and put them end-to-end, and use two lowering lines ...".
If anybody then had said "branch chain amino acids with some complex carbs" we would have wondered what college course he was taking (or what drugs he was taking, dude).
=====
Special Forces uses the simple formula:
(Muscle Size and Strength + Stamina) X (Mental Attitude),
where
Mental Atttitude can be greater than one (a multiplier) or
less than one (a divisor).
|