[Travis McGee]

Amen brother. I have to believe our side knows all this and plans to bring them up to Alpine altitudes in stages over a few weeks.

[Squantos]

A trick we used when we were going high was to wear our M-17's /MCU2P's on our morning 6 mile dirt shuffles. Not sure if it helped but we never had a problem that I can remember when we aclimated in such a manner about 60 days prior to deployment. But then we were stationed at 6500 feet MSL also thus it was no great leap per se.......

Stay Safe !