There is a condition called mountain sickness. You get cerebral edema and it can kill you. Mountain sickness interferes with your though process. The Taliban avoided it by staying in the mountains. Mountain sickness is what got Tillman killed. The rest is bull manure.
Cognitive function and mountain sickness. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232882/
*Mountain sickness is what got Tillman killed. The rest is bull manure.*
That makes the pentagon complicit. Every potential battleground of this earth should be researched by military attache’s in our embassies as well as our satellites. Think all the frostbite casualties in WW2. Greneda 1983-The landing troops had to depend on tourist maps to get around. Then there’s the officer on land who couldn’t communicate with the ship so he had to call the Pentagon from a pay phone using his phone card to do a 3-way. Stupid.
Carcraft is on to something. The government does not do it’s job. The Pentagon is no exception. It cost Tillman and many others. I did my time and got the hell out-still alive. Who’s smarter, me or Tillman?
That is interesting. What altitude were they at? (Although it sounds as if that may be too simple of a question if the issue was going up and down rather than going high, acclimatizing and staying there.)