Sheepdog Tip of the Day, Before Combat tip 63
By 1946, the U.S. Army, full of veteran military leaders fresh from World War II, had completely accepted Marshall's findings of a 15-20 percent firing rate among American riflemen during that war. As a direct result of this, the Human Resources Research Office of the U.S. Army pioneered a revolution in combat training. ... This new method of training replaced the old method of firing at bulls eye targets, with deeply ingrained "conditioning" using realistic, man-shaped pop-up targets that fall when hit. Psychologists know that this kind of powerful "operant conditioning" is the only technique which will reliably influence the primitive, mid-brain processing of a frightened human being, just as fire drills condition terrified school children to respond properly during a fire, and repetitious, "stimulus-response" conditioning in flight simulators enables frightened pilots to respond reflexively to emergency situations.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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