Hey guys, just got back from my first ROTC FTX. Heat, cold, rain, sun, all in the course of one weekend at Wendell Ford Regional training center. For the most part it was fun, even the whole "no showers for a weekend" thing, the only really crappy part was a 3 mile ruck march at night with yours truly being the SAW gunner (those things get heavy after a while) after which we spend HOURS cleaning weapons that were dirty BEFORE we shot a crapload of blanks doing lanes.The lane exercises were awesome, basically a grown up version of "guns" we all played as kids. We used blanks, and evaluators decided when someone was dead or not, but it was still cool, even without MILES gear. I got to be an OPFOR SAW gunner, a US soldier, and another OPFOR. It was good time, no big problems (the seniors who organized and executed the FTX did a spectacular job, Id hate to be the enemy facing their platoon in a year or so's time).Aight all, back to hw, sigh, i wish I could play with you guys : (-DEFCON (formerly Flak)

Sounds pretty neet!

Sounds like you had lots fun. What a great experience to have.

Cool, have fun with hmwk

fun fun. i liked the humps that we did. have fun? what branch again? army? and wehre you go to school again?-G

cool !!

im Army at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology who combines with ISU and USI. I cant get over how cool it was to just open up with the SAW, it felt really controllable and accurate, even over extended bursts, I just wish I had been on one of the lanes where the OPFOR had a slightly better fighting chance than the ones i was on.

o yaaaaaaaaa. i rem now. sounds like you had fun. -G

are you currently in the Army or NG?

Cool. I wish my school had ROTC. We are too big.(if u live in GA, i go to the school with the stabbing last year)

im Army at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology who combines with ISU and USI.

 

I cant get over how cool it was to just open up with the SAW, it felt really controllable and accurate, even over extended bursts, I just wish I had been on one of the lanes where the OPFOR had a slightly better fighting chance than the ones i was on.

Would you rather have the FA SAW? 8)

how can a school be too big to have an ROTC. USF is 40,000 people and the biggest landwise school in the southeast. big both people and land! and we have army, navy, marines and airforce. i am in NAVAL ROTC. USF is the very first in the united states to have an integrated units. all the forces work together to achieve specific goals. it is being tested here to see if it works and apply to every ROTC unit. we are special -G