“When I was 48...I went to the top of the rope on the obstacle course with NO feet.”
NOT BAD!
We had a guy in my Basic School class who broke the record for the Single Running of the “O” Course... on his first time through while going for the Double Running Record.
Since we usually ran only the Single, most of us went up the rope hands-alone.
By the time my buddy hit the rope at the end of the Second time through, his arms were shot. Since we never practiced using our feet, it took him forever to get up when he HAD to use them. Otherwise he would own both the Single & Double Running records.
BTW, we called him “Spiderman”, long before the movies came out.
It was 2000 when I was last at PI. We lived on base in 1965. left in July 65 when dad retired.
Place has changed a lot, but our quarters were still there, across the street from the CO’s house.
A favorite story of my mother’s was how she had changed the diapers of a baby that grew up to be the Commandant.
My dad called the USMC the largest fraternity in the world. No more. He must have rolled over in his grave when the estrogen-fest moved into the CO’s quarters.
This portends very bad things for our country.