When I was 48 I was at PI for a family get together (I was there in the 60s as a dependent - my father’s last duty station).
I went to the top of the rope on the obstacle course with NO feet. And I sure as heck wasn’t fit for combat.
“When I was 48...I went to the top of the rope on the obstacle course with NO feet.”
NOT BAD!
We had a guy in my Basic School class who broke the record for the Single Running of the “O” Course... on his first time through while going for the Double Running Record.
Since we usually ran only the Single, most of us went up the rope hands-alone.
By the time my buddy hit the rope at the end of the Second time through, his arms were shot. Since we never practiced using our feet, it took him forever to get up when he HAD to use them. Otherwise he would own both the Single & Double Running records.
BTW, we called him “Spiderman”, long before the movies came out.