At minus 40 degrees and below, weapons fail, batteries quickly lose their charge, and fuel turns into a viscous jelly. Army officials wanted to learn how their equipment would perform in the extreme cold.
But their biggest questions were about the soldiers who came from places like Alabama, Texas, Florida and California. How far could these troops go before exhaustion set in and they started to lose focus, make mistakes or simply quit?
About 4,000 soldiers from the Army’s 11th Airborne Division, including 107 from the division’s Able Company, were taking part in the training battle, which pitted two similarly sized forces against each other.
In this fight, the ammunition was fake; blanks and lasers replaced bullets and artillery shells. But the cold was unsparingly real.
“They touched my face, and it felt like the finger of God. It was the most benevolent, loving feeling. This was powerful. It was filled with light.”
Becoming emotional, Goldie Hawn revealed how the encounter happened in the 1960s, when she was working as a dancer in California and living in a small apartment.
She recalled: “I looked up in the sky and I said, ‘I know you’re up there, and I know we’re not alone, and I want to meet you one day.”‘
https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/16301137/goldie-hawn-aliens-finger-god/
‘Sleds’ are ahkios. Helps mobility.