| sounds like nothing you wouldn't expect from the entry selection to a crack unit. iv read about the stuff they do at the SERE school and that sounds just as, if not, nastier.
useing the quote that you gotta sweat heaps to avoid spilling blood, despite the fact that this sort of training is not accepted by civilians, these people are in combat units and any training which may help them survive if captured is useful. its not going to be nice training, but then, its going to be a hell of a lot worse in captivity.
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If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
Author: Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith
Source: Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914
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