Longest Run

[Steadfast]

I don't remember my longest run, just the last run I did while training in Vietnam with the 75th (Ranger) Inf and doing a 7 mile run with a ruck (30lbs ), weapon with loaded magazine and full web gear (6 grenades, 1 WP, 1 smoke) 4 ammo pouches (each containing 4 magazines [each magazine contained 19 rounds]) 1 canteen, knife. The run had to be complete in less and 90 minutes. We ran on hilly ground. Camp was Enari in Pleiku JUN '69.


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[Slowpoke]

From the woodline to the chopper!!!!!!

[Kilted Heathen]

From the woodline to the chopper!!!!!!

Brother, that's classic fucking Slowpoke!

Don't say much...but when ya do it's fucking brill!

[RedDevil1504]

We were doing runs to the top of Mount Berico in Vicenza Italy quite a few times ea week that was 6.2 miles, with a really steep grade at the 1/2 way point. It was something like 25% I think. Not long after I got there we started doing the "backside" of Berico. It is probably 11 miles, bypassing the normal route to the "lovers overwatch" turn-around area. I just love the 2.5k winding uphill road to the top:) I must say, those runs were the most beautiful scenery I have been on.

The only mesaured route we would run around at Bragg was the perimeter of Area J. That is 7.4 miles. Usually couldn't get the key to get inside to run though. I am not sure how long the runs we did were through the firebreaks/off road though, this is pre-sports-gps days.

Google maps has some high-res scans of the Vicenza area. If you were there, might be fun to check it out. The scan goes all the way out covering Longare/Costozza/Site Pluto.

[Invictus]

Old 3rd Batt barracks on way street to Uchee creek and back. I don't know the distance but I believe it's over 20 miles.

That being said, Jordan, this run and all the others posted pale in comparison to this one:

From the woodline to the chopper!!!!!!

and exist only to prepare you for it. Keep that in mind when/if you're sucking hind tit....

[The Holmchicken]

Any run my gunner, CPL Ernesto Perez, took me on.

[B 2/75]

Summer Block Leave, 1979, and in the last BN formation prior to departing for home, the WAD got up on his PT stand and told us that we would be having a 20 mile run the morning we got back, so be sure to do some PT at home, and not drink TOO much beer, etc. etc. etc.

I'm a dumbass, so it went in one ear and out the other.

Two weeks later I'm in a BN formation moving out SHARPLY. Remember (or be advised if yer too young to remember) that in those days PT was in boots. Smoking pace. Absolutely blistering. And it was hot, too.

I made it 18 miles and then the next thing I knew I was in the back of a truck and a medic was dumping a 5 gallon jerry can of water on me. I had passed out on the run, almost taking out the rest of my squad as they had to hurdle my prostrate form laying there in the road.

The best part of all was the fact that I got saddled with REMEDIAL PT for two weeks for being a wimp.

At least I didn't get DXed for falling out...

[IDon'tCare]

[quote="Chiron"]We had a platoon party one night all got in at 03:00 drunker than ever. Murphy’s law in effect and the BN Co called an alert at 05:00. Orders came down to form up in PT suits. So we’re out there and Ltc Powell goes through the normal shit “All those that fall out are Dxed…..â€

[RangerX]

13 miles.

It started out to be a 10 mile Bn run led by the BC, when we returned to the Barracks at the end of the 10 miles we went right on by and made a little 3 mile addition. That was in 3rd Bn in '88 or '89.

There's a few more members here that would remember that one!

I was going to mention this one. I remember that shit. Running by the barracks had to be one of the most sadistic things I've ever been involved in, but I felt good that I made it.

[AbnRgr289]

13 miles.

It started out to be a 10 mile Bn run led by the BC, when we returned to the Barracks at the end of the 10 miles we went right on by and made a little 3 mile addition. That was in 3rd Bn in '88 or '89.

There's a few more members here that would remember that one!

I was going to mention this one. I remember that shit. Running by the barracks had to be one of the most sadistic things I've ever been involved in, but I felt good that I made it.

It wasn't that it was that far, it was the mind fuck that went along with it, not to mention the blistering Airborne shuffle pace we were running at!!

[madslashers1-2]

once again I gotta throw this out here, shit has really changed, I don't think I've ever ran more than 8 miles in bn. and its a kind of at your own pace thing, maybe its just my platoon, but guys really aren't into the fuck yourself up suck anymore, at least I'm not.

[Parabellum]

13 miles