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Originally Posted by Jack Moroney
This was in the mid 70s. I taught them basic mountaineering, survival, land nav, patrolling, winter warfare, and a host of other leadership tasks during that time. That was back in the time when GE controlled the good fishing spots under the guise of their vulcan testing program and it was just called Ethan Allen Firing Ranges. Then you all got real sexy and needed an acronym so you labeled it CEATS. I also used the area when I was in the 10th SFG(A) in the early 80s.
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Not much has changed, sir. EAFR, CEATS, Underhill, Jericho, "the Mountain", Castle Grayskull... it's called many things - depending on the context. GE still runs the Vulcan testing range - scaring the sh*t out of many-a-joe who show up there for training and aren't forewarned.