SPECIFICS ON RANGER TRAINING

Ranger2 · Post by **Ranger2** » December 11th, 2003, 1:02 pm

The Haiti thing, we weren't allowed any mail into Gitmo until after we had been there something like 3 weeks. That was after a week at Hunter. So when the packages started arriving from Lewis many had porno mags from the rear detachment. It was a fight to get a porta john. It was a race to get in one.

Ranger2

Saltbitch · Post by **Saltbitch** » December 11th, 2003, 1:11 pm

There are so many memorable smells in the Army; parachute nylon, smoke from a frag grenade in a bunker, an overfilled chemical-shitter in the summer heat....these are a few of my fa-vor-ite things...(fades off into song)

Mailman · Post by **Mailman** » December 11th, 2003, 6:06 pm

It was FUCKIN COLD in Nevada, but at least it didn't smell as bad!!! I think the all time worst smell was running in formation behind your friend who got wasted the night before, particularly the people who drank a bottle of whatever a night!!!!!!!

Saltbitch · Post by **Saltbitch** » December 11th, 2003, 6:30 pm

You mean, oh say, NASSER?

Mailman · Post by **Mailman** » December 11th, 2003, 7:09 pm

Believe it or not I miss that MEATHEAD every now and then.

Ranger2 · Post by **Ranger2** » December 11th, 2003, 7:10 pm

The burning of 550 cord, I remember it well. The overflowing shitters in Gitmo or any other deployment until the Air Force would show up. Being from Michigan I thought it would be warm in Georgia in the winter. Man was I wrong. I went through Ranger school and RIP in the winter and both times I froze my ass off. Ranger school there was snow.

Ranger2

Saltbitch · Post by **Saltbitch** » December 11th, 2003, 7:16 pm

Ranger2, were you in the class that did their roadmarch out to Darby in the friggin' snowstorm? I have a close personal friend who was in that class. Suckfest, for sure...

Ranger2 · Post by **Ranger2** » December 11th, 2003, 7:25 pm

I don't remember actually. The ground was snow covered when we started the field problems in the moutains. It was also cold as hell in the desert too. In fact in the desert and in the mountain there were nights where they didn't let us go to sleep because they were afraid someone wouldn't wake up.

The night in the mountains we were getting freezing rain and we made huge fires and we couldn't go to sleep until it stopped raining.

I just remember the whole time it was cold.

Ranger2