12 Miles in full gear, in the Marines that’s called practice.
25 miles, route march, in full gear, was a hell of a way to spend a Saturday. The worst was, as a comm tech, you get this arrogant idea that you shouldn’t have to put up with this ‘nonsense’, (Almost said the Other.). The other problem is that, as a Marine, you’d rather die than quit. After all, you’re just as good as an 0311.
I know. I’ve done more than12 miles with a prc119, the rest of my load and carried the tube for an 81 and the pod for a 50 for part of the way.
Hell, if I heard we were doing 12, I’d think, “ easy day”.
LOL! You read my mind. Try 24 miles with a full combat load at rout step.
It’s little more than a third of a standard thirty mile hump.
I assume after school the army winds up doing those too.
If you struggle with the short training humps, what are you gonna do in the field?