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Originally Posted by CSB
...Not "the last hard course syndrome " rather, plastic hockey helmets struck me as too PC, too artifical...
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How do you equate the wearing of a helmet while negotiating an obstacle course to Political Correctness? While I applaud your graduating the SFQC when it was apparently harder than it is today (as drawn from your comparison of the obstacle course when you were a student) I cannot help but find some fault in your reasoning. As well, there appears to me to be a litany of things we could apply your same reasoning to; some of these may include: body armor, boots, socks, running in boots, web gear, etc, etc...
It seems to me that the helmet is a means to prevent SF Candidates from succumbing to a injury that was identified as being preventable. Trust me when I say that there are plenty of other places where Candidates are afforded the opportunity to injure themselves on obstacles where there is little to no preventable measure or no quantifiable rate of injury associated with said obstacle.
Maybe today we are just training a little smarter in some instances.
Crip
(1095 days, trainable)