Sheepdog Tip of the Day, During Combat tip 53
Some Green Berets were required practice realistic fighting and then restrain actors with "flex-cuffs"--a type of flexible handcuff consisting of a narrow plastic strip with a small one-way hole on one end. The opposite (running) end is inserted into the hole and can then be tightened. (Smaller versions are sometimes used to tie off plastic garbage bags.) Inserting the end of the restraint into that little hole takes a relatively high level of fine-motor control, a process that had not been rehearsed extensively by the Green Berets. The result was that the individuals who had not "pre-threaded" their flex-cuffs as they had been taught, had significantly more difficulty when it came to performing cuffing procedures under extremely high stress.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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