Ever go a full 24 hours with no sleep?

[theoak01]

You ever go through Combat Survival training?

we had a survival course but i doubt it was the same thing reg force guys get

 

[StickFigure]

we had a survival course but i doubt it was the same thing reg force guys get

you Guard??

 

[theoak01]

i was artillery reserves for the canadian forces. started as a high school co-op,i didnt stay on long after i finished the co-op,it was fun just not something i wanted to make a career out of.

 

[StickFigure]

i was artillery reserves for the canadian forces. started as a high school co-op,i didnt stay on long after i finished the co-op,it was fun just not something i wanted to make a career out of.

Oh, that's right. I always forget you're a canuck. You're just too cool of a bro to be canuck. lol! j/k

Well, our survival training started with some basic "how to keep your ass alive" shit in the beginning. Living off bugs, and pine needles, and shit like that, but about half way through it turned into a huge Escape and Evasion training scenario. And lemme tell ya, they made that shit as real as possible just short of real bullets. They gave us a compas and a shitty ass hand drawn map with about a dozen check points/safe houses on it and said, "Good luck soldier!"
Did that doe about three days, and is seemed that just as we got to a safe house, we were flushed out again.
After that was over, they took us back to the barracks and let us fall asleep for about an hour and a half and then busted in on us, threw gunny sacks over our heads, and shuffled us onto a busted ass bus. They drove for quite a while, constantly harrassing us to keep us awake. We arrive at our destination only to find that we are now in a POW training scenario. Went through some hell for the next 36 hours.
Tough freakin' time but I wouldn't trade that training for the world!

 

[theoak01]

Oh, that's right. I always forget you're a canuck. You're just too cool of a bro to be canuck. lol! j/k

Well, our survival training started with some basic "how to keep your ass alive" shit in the beginning. Living off bugs, and pine needles, and shit like that, but about half way through it turned into a huge Escape and Evasion training scenario. And lemme tell ya, they made that shit as real as possible just short of real bullets. They gave us a compas and a shitty ass hand drawn map with about a dozen check points/safe houses on it and said, "Good luck soldier!"
Did that doe about three days, and is seemed that just as we got to a safe house, we were flushed out again.
After that was over, they took us back to the barracks and let us fall asleep for about an hour and a half and then busted in on us, threw gunny sacks over our heads, and shuffled us onto a busted ass bus. They drove for quite a while, constantly harrassing us to keep us awake. We arrive at our destination only to find that we are now in a POW training scenario. Went through some hell for the next 36 hours.
Tough freakin' time but I wouldn't trade that training for the world!

damn that sounds rough,ours started fri night ended sun morning,we did a class lesson to learn how to keep our asses alive before hand,then we got dropped off in pairs with a map,under complete noise and light disicpline,we heard people often but didnt know who they were so we hid,had to find out way to check points like you and end at a guarded intersection and get to a truck without being scene,i spent 5 hours in water slowly moving through a ditch to the truck locations,prob only about a kilometre but it was heavily guarded,me and my partner made it to the trucks about 30 mins before sun up,after the sun came up nobody made it successfully. it was pretty damn hard

 

[StickFigure]

damn that sounds rough,ours started fri night ended sun morning,we did a class lesson to learn how to keep our asses alive before hand,then we got dropped off in pairs with a map,under complete noise and light disicpline,we heard people often but didnt know who they were so we hid,had to find out way to check points like you and end at a guarded intersection and get to a truck without being scene,i spent 5 hours in water slowly moving through a ditch to the truck locations,prob only about a kilometre but it was heavily guarded,me and my partner made it to the trucks about 30 mins before sun up,after the sun came up nobody made it successfully. it was pretty damn hard

The E&E was tough but more so just physically. The POW camp was a mind fuck!! I spent 8 hours in a 2'x2' square box, got the crap beat out of me, hosed down in about 38 deg F temps., and then interrogated for hours on end. To finish it off, they put a bunch of us in a room together with some smooth talking SOB that just talked to like he was our friend. He only brought up contravercial subjects and the next thing we know, everybody has turned against eachother. This group that was supposed to be a team, supposed to be on the samr side. It was a major mind fuck I tell ya!

 

[theoak01]

im glad we didnt have to do the pow shit,but considering my course was all 17-18yr olds i doubt they would have wanted to mind fuck us to bad

 

[StickFigure]

im glad we didnt have to do the pow shit,but considering my course was all 17-18yr olds i doubt they would have wanted to mind fuck us to bad

Of course we were all 18 and older but it didn't seem to bother them to put it to us. I was just over 18. I went into the AF right out of HS. Took the summer and then of I went. Tell ya what, I'll NEVER forget what I went through that's for damn sure!

 

[vinylgroover]

yeah a few times......i've partied pretty long and hard in my life and it's pretty easy to do when you are up for it

 

[theoak01]

Of course we were all 18 and older but it didn't seem to bother them to put it to us. I was just over 18. I went into the AF right out of HS. Took the summer and then of I went. Tell ya what, I'll NEVER forget what I went through that's for damn sure!

its with you for life thats sure,but i think it makes a man a better man