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Your right in saying that there are such few of them that when they get out it seems more so then say the number of guys that do 3 and out.
Mack674 said:Theres also Oo-rah, the war cry of the US Marines.
And yeah, there are alot of smaller guys that have a harder time too. When I did SQ, i was about 125-130lbs and I almost wrecked my back on one particular ruck march... another km or two and im sure I would have torn something. The pain was excruciating but when I had it checked out they said it was just really really strained.... I personally blame my platoon commander at the time, who was the kind of guy to try his damndest to break the smaller guys or anybody who displayed any kind of weakness whatsoever.
Theres no training value in giving certain people harder times in an attempt to break their will, I think he was fired shortly after, when higher ups found out he was running troops into the ground to feed his own ego of being hardcore or something, instead of giving them training and valuable PT.
Im curious to some comments some of you made, a couple by paracowboy in particular about your body failing you. Ive only been doing this part time, some full time on and off etc for a little over two years, but im going to assume you mean that doing all this strenuous activity on your body for years and years eventually causes you to fall apart physically? Or did you have some kind of recurring injury....
I hear alot about guys being in the infantry for a while and by the time they get out their bodies are all batterred and smashed up.How much of this is truth and how much is exaggeration? I would like to do this for a living, but Im not to keen on the idea that some day ill force myself out simply because my body is all used up. :-\
swanita said:be prepared to be put extremely to the test by all that male testosterone BS.
Heavy_Duty391 said:I finished Basic and decided to change trade...no more Infantry for me...the problem is that I'M too petite for it