To: Future Snake Eater
It's not only the Army that can't seem to get it right....
The Marine Corps sent us to the Mountain/Winter training center -- MCMWTC, at Pickle Meadow in the Sierra Mountians, just NW of Sonora --- in NOVEMBER.
I believe altitudes ranges from 6,000 to 10,000 feet - and temperatures down to -12F or so.....
Now, then. This was to prepare us for low land jungle, flat rice paddies and chopper rides through the mountains, with temperatures of 90+F with 90% RH in Vietnam..
Go figure..
Semper Fi
To: river rat
"...MCMWTC..." - river rat
Reminds me of a story told by an instructor I had once... He was ordered to Alaska (can't remember the location - too long ago) for training, just before just before he deployed to I Corp, RVN.
Stay armed,
Raven6
23 posted on
10/23/2002 7:37:23 PM PDT by
Raven6
To: river rat
Probably because you are going to Okie and your mission there is Korea. I trust you have heard of Chosin.
39 posted on
10/24/2002 6:45:07 AM PDT by
flyer182
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