"Army nonsense"

[Woodland]

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The new leaders also instituted an amazing, hooah, breathtakingly motivating policy to maintain fighting spirit. They decided that everyone carrying a rifle or carbine on the FOB had to carry it in a combat ready stance, as if they were on patrol.

I visited shortly after the policy took effect. On the sidewalk I saw many a sad-faced Soldier stalking to the PX with his rifle ready for a firefight, wearing his reflective belt, and saluting officers. It was like looking into an animal shelter full of sad puppies in electrified cages.

[rationtin440]

That sure does sound like Army nonsense, Woodland, and it shows the lengths that both sides were willing to go to in order to achieve a "breakthrough" in capabilities during the cold war. Another frightening area of research during the cold war involved using psychics and paranormal activity to wage war. Imagine using psychics to induce heart attacks in enemy leaders from thousands of miles away, or being able to enter a soldier's dream state during sleep and literally frighten him/her to death. The movie and book "Men Who Stare at Goats" discussed this stuff but many years and millions were spent on both sides of the iron curtain to gain superiority in this area.