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Hey Sam. Mountain Warfare Training
Ricci.Wright
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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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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.
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.
One place I was happy to not have been stationed. Friends were there and the stories, oh my.
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.