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To: Night Hides Not

When I was an Infantry 2LT in 1975, there were five events.

Pull-ups; max score was around 12.

Pushups: max score was 50 with two minutes.

Sit-ups: Max score was 60 in two minutes

Horizontal ladder: I forget the max score, but it wasn’t easy, maybe 60 rungs which included changing directions every 15 rungs.

1 mile run IN COMBAT BOOTS: Max score was 5:56.

Top possible score was 500; 100 for each event.

I went through Airborne Training as an ROTC Cadet. Requirements were about the same, except the run was 2 miles or until the Black Hats decided it was long enough.

There was another ROTC Cadet who started running around the formation. Black Hats thought he was being a smart-ass, so one of the Black Hats took him out of the formation to run with him. That was a great idea until the Cadet ran him into the ground. Turned out this Cadet was an All-American cross-country runner ar Weber State. From then on, they ran together every day.


41 posted on 05/11/2021 11:23:18 AM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: WASCWatch
The Horizontal Ladder gave me a cold slap of reality. I did that for the first time at our Spring Camp in 1973, when I was a freshman. Every year during Spring Break, Gonzaga cadets would go to Fort Lewis for 4 days.

I didn't make it much past the first turn that year. It told me I needed to get serious about my lack of upper body strength. By my junior year, I was doing 4-5 laps on that thing. Of course, it wasn't just strength, there was a technique that counted, too.

71 posted on 05/11/2021 4:39:27 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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