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Article: Excelling in Special Forces requires fitness, confidence, endurance.
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- January 10, 2003
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Byline: Drew Brown
CAMP MACKALL, N.C. _ A group of 17 Special Forces candidates toils up a sandy dirt road in the rolling pine barrens of eastern North Carolina, pushing and pulling a lashed-together contraption known as the "Flintstone Mobile."
The device, if one can call it that, is made up of a telephone pole, a few old tires and metal poles. It looks positively medieval, something between a battering ram and an implement of torture. As hard as this group is working to get the thing up a small hill, it's apparent that as far as they are concerned, it is the latter.
The soldiers don't know how far they are supposed to go with the Flintstone ...