Lessons Learned--Afghanistan (10th Mountain Division)

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[Future Snake Eater]

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[5by5]

I doodlebugged a bit in Wyoming myself.

My favorite was when we ran a line over the Rattlesnake Mountains in January...with 48,000 lb. vibrator trucks.

The drive-around was over a 100 miles so we swung the line on foot.

It'd be good training for the 10th.

[dirtboy]

At what altitude do they train? When they were based in Colorado they trained at 9,000 and above.

That was my thought - I think they train in the Adirondacks now. Mountain troops should live and train at high altitude. I lived for two years at 8,500 feet, and I could go up to 12 to 14,000 feet with minimal problems.

[SLB]

I was doodlebugging before the days of the vibrator. 150 ft shot holes with 25 lbs of 60% nitro at the bottom. Boom! Rocks and stuff all over the place if the shooter did not get the hole tamped all the way down. Those were the good old days. We worked Eastern Montana, the Red Desert and then did some uranium logging in Northern Nevada. Worked hard, played hard and learned bunches.