"Although we were dealing with the cream of American youth, giving them the best planes and best education in the world, at no time during their training was anyone shooting live bullets at them. Later, in their first mortal combat, some of them "tied-up" mentally, physically, or both. We lost the man and the plane. Hence, a program was needed that would teach all cadets to relax under the pressure of combat. We hoped to devise relaxation techniques that would help us meet such pre-flight instruction and warfare preparation needs as:"