Avery Trufelman
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and eventually civilians.
Who is George Dorio?
He's this Frenchman turned American professor at Harvard.
He is the founder of venture capital.
That's his big thing.
He went on to lead a rich and wildly successful life after this.
This is so not important to anything else about what he goes on to do.
which is the department responsible for essentially all the logistics.
They call it like boots, beans, and bullets.
They make sure that the troops are fed and that they're transported and that they're clothed.
And so the Quartermaster Corps created a bunch of laboratories.
They brought in like the Harvard Mountaineering Club.
They brought in a bunch of outdoorsmen, like famous outdoorsmen.
They brought in the services of the guy, Eddie Bauer, and the man, L.L.
Bean, like Leon Leon Wood Bean.
And they ran these test expeditions to Alaska.
There were multiple Chaunceys.
Yes.
And for what it's worth, Chauncey is terrifying looking.
He's got these like wires sticking out of his body.