Looking For That Military 'Sixth Sense'

Soldiers occasionally get a sixth sense feeling about battlefield dangers. Here, Sgt. Auralie Suarez and Pvt. Brett Mansink take cover during a firefight with anti-Iraqi forces in the Al Doura section of Baghdad, March 7. CREDIT: U.S. Army | Staff Sgt. Sean A. Foley

US Military Seeks Sixth Sense Training -- Live Science

Ordinary soldiers have sometimes shown a battlefield sixth sense that has saved lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the U.S. military wants to better understand that "spidey sense" and train troops to tap their inner superhero instincts.

The U.S. Office of Naval Research pointed to sixth sense research about how "humans can detect and act on unique patterns without consciously and intentionally analyzing them," according to a special notice posted on Feb. 29. It hopes to encourage such intuition in the brains of new soldiers, Marines and other troops with little or no battlefield experience.

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My Comment: My father mentioned this '6th sense' to me when I once asked him on how was he able to survive the fight on the Russian front during the Second World War. From his observation, he found that soldiers who were able to survive the first six months of heavy combat .... were also the same soldiers who were alive at the end of the war. It seems that the first few months of combat are crucial in sharpening these instincts and to help the soldier in becoming aware of the dangers that may be in front of him .... and to avoid it. Without this experience .... my father found that soldiers who were "green to the fight" were usually the soldiers who were finding themselves in grave and dangerous situations .... and getting killed or wounded because of it.