[Jumper]

Yes, the jungle training was excellent and we had some fun too when an earthqake divereted all chopper support out of country and we literally ate nothing for four days in jungle, except for sugar cane and muddy water filtered thru our t-shirts into canteens and a double/thriple dose of water purification (we had given all our c-rats to some jungle dweller our second day out who was snakebit on the trail and our medic had attened too - poor family lived in a two sided lean-to fashioned out of leaves, cans flattened, cardboard, etc.)

Winter warfare training at Camp Drum NY was awesome and the desert warfare training at Bliss, Carson, in Kalifornia and Washington State were all decent. Being the 82d we always jumped in and then humped, but the worse of the lot was at Carson being destroyed by the Ruski Mech force and dust/heat.

[Travis McGee]

What did the Ruski mech force use for their simulated vehicles?

I remember SERE school in Maine in March, “Mickey Mouse” boots and air force survival jackets. The “Russians” in the POW phase wore full out Russian uniforms, it was very cool.

One day in the POW camp a pair of A-10s buzzed our camp at tree top level and made a few passes. We thought it was part of the scenario, but it turned out they were NG pilots who “went rogue” to go visit SERE school and got an ass chewing for it.