Your story reminds me of a story an army vet told me. In his basic training he had this tough South Vietnamese Sgt. who was attached to a US unit. Whenever someone would slow down he would say to them “what you no run?” As if running 10 miles in the summer sun with a 40lb pack was easy.
Yep. Those Field Marches were brutal! It really sucked that we gals had to drag the guys along with us! ;)