"The process was designed to create a pressure cooker environment in which young officers in training were pulled at from every direction, for every imaginable reason, to do things that were next to impossible. But the cadre weren't there simply to make our lives miserable. Hot situations gave the upperclassmen excellent indicators of who was, and was not suitable for command, both at the school and later in life. The idea was a simple: to be so overcome with stress and responsibilities, so completely surrounded with impossible demands on their time, that they would have to choose, in triage fashion, the most important tasks to complete while keeping a cool head in the process."
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George Steffner, Through Their Eyes: What Really Happened in the World's Toughest Plebe System (2014), p. 41
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