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[CX]

Arrrrr!

[justTripn]

CX, is that you? And are you dressed as a pirate?

[CX]

Yes and yes.

[justTripn]

And the woman in the strapless dress? . . .

It looks like a very classy Halloween party. You going to fill us in?

[CX]

She's a friend of a friend, and we're just sitting next to each other before the start of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[Asso]

SMILE

[Elessar]

I'm not in any of these but, I'm around...




I'm actually right on the left somewhere, not quite in the shot.







This could be me somewhere, I have no idea.

[TPoptarts]

Whoa that looks like fun.

[CX]

Ah yes, low-crawling is loads of fun... I'm just glad we only had to do it through mud and not water.

[Elessar]

Ah yes, low-crawling is loads of fun... I'm just glad we only had to do it through mud and not water.

hah, yeah, oh man. Terrible day, . It was like 30 degrees. The water, too. Freezing. After like the first 50 yards when it was floating on your back w/ the rifle over your head, I was pretty sure that nothing on my body would still move. Somehow my knees and hips did, lol, that's all I needed to move. Then we had another 50y trench that we had to go through on our stomach, which was actually easier. The only bitch was that it was so cold and the barbed wire was pretty low so I kept getting my kevlar cover caught on barbed wire on the first one. It finally just came off and I stuffed it in my cargo pocket. Which was great b/c then on the 2nd trench, the barbed wire just skidded over my kevlar instead of hooking on it, haha. Really you were supposed to get low enough so it didn't touch you but it was just so chaotic w/ the freezing water that it was hard to stay focused on staying low. When we got done, everyone was like frozen solid and shaking and we had to unload the unused blanks out of our mags and like practically nobody could do it until they gave us the hint, "Remove one and then use the butt of the round to take out the others", because you just didn't have the fine motor control to execute the normally extremely simple motion of pushing down and out on the rounds, it was just impossible. Hands were completely numb, it was like excruciatingly painful to touch anything, lol. Pretty sure everyone went into hypothermia, b/c we had to hike like a mile or something back to the barracks and then shower off our gear outside. Yay Marine Corps

And yeah, I had scabs on my elbows for a good 2 and a half weeks after that from the low crawl part itself

[CX]

Yeah, I just rolled an ankle (and possibly broke it) on another part of the course, and ruined by uniform, which came back to bite be in the ass when I needed to have a clean, nicely-pressed uniform a couple days later. Yes, that's actually where the Air Force places a lot of emphasis during training - your uniform must be perfect.

[Asso]

Whoa that looks like fun.

Fun, eh? Well, each single one has his own ideas, I think.

[justTripn]

Did they purposely pick a day when it would be 30 degrees? Also do you always have those red plugs on the end of your guns or is that only for crawling through water?

[Alelou]

I'm wondering if they give you polypropylene thermal underwear or what? How DO they keep entire platoons from perishing from hypothermia?

[CX]

Did they purposely pick a day when it would be 30 degrees?

I'm going to guess that they did, since afterwards they were supposed to perform tasks, like emptying their magazine. After all, they might actually have to go through something like that in combat conditions, so they have to know how to deal with it when they can't just go inside a nice warm building and take a warm shower.

Also do you always have those red plugs on the end of your guns or is that only for crawling through water?

Those are there because their weapons are loaded with blanks, and they're to keep the gases from a blank being fired from shooting out however far it normally would without it. Believe it or not, those gases by themselves could cause death or injury if someone was close enough to the muzzle.

I'm wondering if they give you polypropylene thermal underwear or what? How DO they keep entire platoons from perishing from hypothermia?

They probably have medics there in case anyone has it too bad.