Daily Dose of Splodey

Training in the Kahuku Mountains of Oahu, I hated this damn wind turbine. You’d move all day with a heavy pack, and most of the night. Stopping movement at 0100, you’d have four hours to rest. Except half that time, you had to be up pulling security. Which meant you got no more than two hours of sleep, as Stand To was at 0500.

So while you’re trying to sleep for two hours, that damn turbine with its massive blades spent the whole night making a “whoomp!………….whoomp! sound that made sleep virtually impossible.

Comments

[Esli]

I never realized how tough the terrain in the Kahuku Training Area was until I went there to OC 3/25 IBCT. That is some crazy terrain there. Watching the guys slowly cover up with red clay and sweat as they went up and down the hills was tiring me out!

[Xbradtc]

I remember trying to explain to you, something like 25 years ago, just how awful the terrain was there, and just how grueling being a lightfighter was in the Kahukus.

I'm glad you finally got to see it first hand.

[Esli]

Twenty-five years ago, I would have been somewhat dismissive because I could have hung much better back then. I've declined significantly since then... Walking off the DZ to the first BN objective with the training unit a couple weeks ago, I was floored with the size rucksacks these guys were carrying these days.

I say this even though I can still run most guys half my age into the ground.