Summer 1983, Fort Sill, OK, even the Army forced us take water breaks. Getting caught without a canteen full of water was considered a major malfunction.
Also, during lecture breaks we would be formed up outside and sprayed down with water.
This coach is an idiot and an ass if he didn’t let his team drink water. Pushups galore not really the problem here, it is the unsafe conditioning/training.
In Band of Brothers, there's a scene where Captain Sobel made the men pour out their canteens after a long hike, to see if anyone drank. If they did, they had to do the hike again.
I’m not sure if it is summer in January in that part of Texas.
I agree wholeheartedly with that.
No one can start from “nothing” and do 400 pushups in an hour. And water is essential.
“”Summer 1983, Fort Sill, OK, even the Army forced us take water breaks. Getting caught without a canteen full of water was considered a major malfunction.””
Ft. Sill also had a few black flag days when it is just too hot for training, of course that was back in 1972 when the American fighting men were all pansies. (joking)
“Summer 1983, Fort Sill, OK, even the Army forced us take water breaks.”
I was told the Army forced men and women to do this. Even more so when they were over in Iraq and Kuwait. I heard they were ordered to drink water even when they said “I’m not thirsty”. They had to drink like so many gallons a day.
How often did you take your water breaks? Every 10 minutes? Every 20?