Hey Sam. Mountain Warfare Training

January 15, 2021 00:58

I'm guessing this is some of the same kind of training you had your guys doing in Dahlonega. Ga. These guys look pretty serious.

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chme

January 15, 2021 19:22
Back in 1970 I graduated from the US Army mountaineering course- Ft. Greeley Alaska. The Army was feeding us 50% more than a standard ration, and we were still losing weight. High altitude, cold, physically demanding. For ice work, we lived on a glacier for a week. Learned there are more things you can do with 7/16ths nylon rope than you would believe.
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allen griggs

January 15, 2021 21:45
Sam: You were training in Dahlonega? Were you training on Yonah Mountain?
I used to fly my hang glider off of that mountain. I saw those Army guys on that steep granite cliff with the ropes and pitons.
That looked dangerous to me.
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susie

January 15, 2021 21:58
chme: 31514418427547/comments/31514408324763
Back in 1970 I graduated from the US Army mountaineering course- Ft. Greeley Alaska. The Army was feeding us 50% more than a standard ration, and we were still losing weight. High altitude, cold, physically demanding. For ice work, we lived on a glacier for a week. Learned there are more things you can do with 7/16ths nylon rope than you would believe.

One place I was happy to not have been stationed. Friends were there and the stories, oh my.
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allen griggs

January 16, 2021 14:55
My uncle, Stuart Drum of Chicago, was in the Tenth Mountain and he trained in Colorado, must have been at Camp Hale.
He was fighting in Italy. His buddy stepped on a Kraut land mine and was killed. Uncle Stu got a bad wound to the arm and got shipped back to the states.
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