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06-29-2009, 02:55 PM
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Reed also comes up with an interesting premise in the article I linked to and in other related articles he's written. He's stated on multiple occasions that the excessively stringent physical training standards for qualification and entry into certain elite units has a negative effect on the make-up and demographics of elite units. Sure, it weeds out those physically unfit for special operations duties, but it also biases against those who are smart enough to know that putting men's lives at undue risk in an effort to simulate outdated battle conditions in training is a counterproductive exercise in masochism.
Thus, according to Reed, the qualification regimen makes it so that it allows for the entry of the physically fit who are inherently masochists and/or those whose instincts for self-preservation are misplaced or underdeveloped (and a soldier who has a latent "death wish" tendency -- whether it be motivated by unthinking pseudo-patriotism, a lack of intelligence, or a neurosis -- is as much a liability as a soldier who's ready to turn and run at the first sign of real combat).
I don't agree with him totally on this point, but I think it helps to explain to some degree why some of the most egregious examples of everything from harmless eccentricities to maladaptive social behaviour to outright sociopathic/psychopathic behaviour in the Armed Forces occasionally involve military personnel (not just US Armed Forces, but across the board internationally) trained as part of designated "special operations forces."
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