Jaakko and echo question how important is personal intelligence in the military particularly in MO in more dangerous roles as compared to physical strength I’m a college student who will probably go to OCS Officer Candidate School yeah so this has been on my mind well okay so intelligence is paramount right of course if you aren’t smart that you’re gonna do dumb things and dumb things can definitely get you killed this is not to say that if you do dumb things you will get killed cuz I did some really dumb things in combat and I didn’t get killed and it certainly isn’t to say that if you get killed you did something dumb because to combat it has no mercy and you can be the best trained the smartest the most tackling sound person in the world and those people can still get killed the combat doesn’t care about any of that that bullet that has no one’s name on it it the bomb has no one’s name on it it’s gonna go off and it’s gonna take out who it takes out and that’s that but as far as weighing you know intelligence and cognitive power versus strength I mean you have to be is I would rather be smart and being smartness is very important because if you’re smart if you aren’t smart I should say you you increase your chance of doing something that isn’t smart and then you’re gonna make some kind of a mistake that will negatively impact you so yes being smart is very important now there are some cases without question where physical strength and stamina is at least as important and sometimes more important that’s just the way it is you might have to climb a cliff to escape the enemy but that’s just the way it is you might have to sue Mike Thornton Mike Thornton swam for what five hours dragging two people now he could be the smartest guy in the world and which he did a damn good job of just you know getting the life jackets and getting himself organizing a situation where it’d be the easiest possible way for him to swim even that you still got to swim for five hours dragging two people while you’re wounded by the way hmm so if he didn’t have that physical strength at that point that brain wouldn’t matter it wouldn’t matter so what’s interesting about this is guess what a really smart person will get himself or herself the physical capabilities and that’s what you’ll do and the smart person the really smart person will work their ass off to get in shape and into stay in shape because you can be smart to come up with the most brilliant plan in the world but if you don’t have the physical wherewithal to execute that plan than that that brilliant plan doesn’t matter so yes you want to be smart and yes you want to be physically strong you want to exercise your brain and your body as much as possible and get them both as mentally strong physically get yourself as mentally strong as physically strong as you possibly can and that’s not just in the not just in the military that’s in life in life somebody quoted on Twitter the other day you if you – you can’t you don’t know 2+2 if you’re dead like you can’t add two plus there so if you’re if you’re investing all your time in being smart or you’re investing all your time and in that intellectual aspect of your life and then you let your physical aspect go yeah well guess what now you’re now you’re unhealthy now you died because you didn’t take care of you now what good is your brain now zero zero good good check
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