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Thank you for the pictures and the fascinating insight into your lives. It is amazing how I can read through 9 pages of a thread and not realize that I am 45 minutes late to a meeting.
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Do you write childrens' books in your spare time?
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It's a good story it's just that I kept nodding through the lines like I was reading a colorin' book
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stever wrote:i can if you wish do you a special one Ranger heathen

with pictures and words with four or less letters so you wont get confused

get farked lol
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Post by lrsrangerw8 »

The longest mission I have done, not a training mission, was roughly 104 hours. The 104 hours was just the surveillance part of the mission and doesnt count planning, insertion, infil, exfil and extraction.
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Most interesting.

1 liter of water is equal to 1 kg (2.2 lb).( I will never understand the imperial measuring system ) So 8 liters of water equals 8 kg (17.6 lb)

The war we were involved in was much different (Angola).It was fought over very long distances with very little or no infrastructure like roads or airfields. Just bush. We regularly did 2 to 3 week LRRP , carrying average 100 to 130 kg kit (For the Americans that is 220 to 280 lb). If you run out of food /water you normally lived of the bush. The kit mostly consisted of ammo, water ,food, battery's, first aid , radios etc. No spare clothing (except socks), sleeping bag, poncho.

I have the impressing that the American Soldier required to carry to much personal equipment. In my opinion not all are required. You can survive with almost nothing as long as you can survive in nature.

We were not always extracted by helicopter. Many times we walked-in or out, the furthest about 250 km (150miles). The helicopters we had was not able to go further than 500 km so for a return trip could only do 250 km.

The SADF SF (Especially 32 Battalion) was very good in Pseudo teams were you could stay in the bush for weeks on end.

The focus was to melt into the bush, becoming one with it, survive from it and especially in Pseudo teams becomes indistinguishable from the enemy and therefore extremely effective.

Much more can be said but lest stop here.
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Can't believe I just spent 45 minutes reviewing a 2 - 3 year old thread. I have got to get a life.
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Jim wrote:Can't believe I just spent 45 minutes reviewing a 2 - 3 year old thread. I have got to get a life.
Jim,

I'm glad that you did, otherwise, I'd have miised this thread altogether.

F Company Lurps worked in 6 man teams and usually conducted missions for up to 7 days.

The first mission that I went on with B-36 (SF) was with one other American and four Cambodes. we reconned to the West of Song Be for six days. Both Americans carried PRC-25s with an extra battery each. The Cambodes each carried an extra battery for the Prick 25s and an extra canteen for one of the Americans. Both Americans also carried URC-10 radios.

RLTW

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