I was in the service in the 80’s when we transformed all of our vehicles from manual transmissions to automatics. One of the reasons is that we have actually, in the past, lost personnel because we had people in combat situations die because they jumped into a vehicle which was manual and they did not know how to drive it therefore they were not able to get out of harms way.
Really interesting. Something a lay person would not be aware of. Also, thank you for the cool information and for your service.
Also your answer makes a lot of sense.