Band of Brothers, Series....yes it's fitness.

[Mortblanc]

You are watching movies again, and believing them!

Those guys are not all that good with their weapons.

in WW2 the average was 15,000 rounds per kill
in Korea the numbers were 5k per casulty, (no total kill figures available)
in Viet Namn it required 50,000 per casulty

Our present comflict is digesting 250,000 rounds per kill.

Running is stressed as a training method because it costs nothing, expends a lot of energy and absorbs a lot of time. A bored GI is a GI about to get into trouble. We were always encouraged to fill in empty training time with runs using the need for conditioning as the excuse.

During the "cold war era" we always took it for granted it was training for high speed retreat in the face of 10/1 odds!