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Originally Posted by Mysteryfish
Are there techniques they teach you for memorization and situational awareness, or is that memory test just a weed-out technique?
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The memory test you see in the clip is what we here in Canada call KIMS games. These help aid soldiers's memories, especially if your in Recce. If you conduct a recce of an enemy postion and cannot remember things you have seen when you return back to your camp, then your no use to your commander. therefor the KIMS games is like an exercise for the brain and it helps a soldier remember what he/she has seen after a period of time. In an ideal world you would write and draw things down, but sometimes there is no time or the mission does not allow you to do so in case you get captured.
I dont know if the Army in the States uses the memory test to weed out cadidates, but here in Canada it is used to aid in ones memory and is an exellent exercise to aid in ones memory retention after a recce.
If I missed out on anything please add on, and if im wrong in what I wrote correct me, as it has been a while since I have done this stuff :-D
If im around for Sha Do's next sniper course ill conduct some KIMS games, I will start off with just a few easy objects then make things a lil more difficult for those who want to.
What I have done for the KIMS games is the instructor would have us go for a 5-6km run, along the route there would be typical objects that would be encountered such as a helmet, rifle (rubber), pistol (rubber), canteen, bayonet, clothing articles (typically what the enemy uses), etc. Once we completed the run, we continued with training, at the end of the day the instructor handed us paper and asked us to jot down every object we seen. Typically its done a half hour after, but the instructor decided to do at the end of the day, I believe its the proper way of doing this as your missions can last up to a day or even days.