Originally posted by Stanger1234
I've seached on this web-site and I've read some topics, but none acctually confirms this answer: "Is there, or has there ever been, a super soldier program? Like during WWII uptill now? "
If so, could you give me some material so that I can read about it? Like books, trusty web-site's and so on. :-)

If by "super soldier" you mean weird and hinky career-limiting projects, oh my yes.

The biggest cluster of career ending opportunities that I recall was 81-83 at Ft Bragg. LOTS of openings for weird super soldierness. The ones that immediately come to mind was the optimal path training (actually pretty cool and at least somewhat useful if you were any good at it), there was a project designed to build a bunch of expert personas into someone so that you could switch between various Batman-ish roles such as a hardcore CQC guy with no remorse or pity, a totally chilled sniper, an explosives guy, a wall climber etc. A 'don't perceive this as dangerous' mindset trick "If you can walk a 2x4 on the ground, I want a soldier that can do the same thing 50' in the air just as easily". Of course the E7 in charge of the pit obstacle had the Ba Gua goat killing trick. A remote viewing thing, invisibility (not exactly, but effectively). Seems like I'm forgetting some.

Of all of the crap that you could become sadly eligible to participate in, the 'dont see me' trick and the optimal path thing were the two jewels of all of it, and even those were odd.

edit to add:

Your key to weirdness is "Uncle Al" Albert Stubblebine. Try adding "Virginia Satir" and "NLP" to searches.

Has anybody seen the Charles Bronson Look alike Handler?

Originally posted by audas
The US is phasing out all manned pilots - they say it is like having a sail maker on a nuclear battle ship - pointless. The latest jet the f-22 (i think) is the last manned only jet which will be produced, it is already being converted to pilotless mode. The current line of pinnacle development is in unmanned to unmanned combat capabilities.
At the start of the Iraq war there were about 5 simple robots, there are now well over 30,000 in both Iraq and Afghanistan - subs, copters, planes, tanks, packbots, sniper response, autonomous CRAMS, etc.

The military expects by 2025 all soldiers could be replaced in combat - as in robot soldiers fighting on the field, the scientists believe this is way to short and it will be by 2020 at the very latest.

The latest graduates from military colleges are already being told they will never fly or see direct combat - however- the the head of this programme can't remember his name but if you want will look it up, has stated that there "will always be a need for the few brave souls to strap themselves into machines and be hurled across the heavens"..

All of this comes from "Wired For War" Peter Singer = read it.

Super Solder - mechs.

There "Yes" is "No" and No is Yes for a fee. Our government is not competent with human soldiers, do you think we need super soldiers or robots, that will make the government more credible?