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Originally Posted by spottedmedic111
WD, I was a medic for a long time and I wish everyone shared your insight on this. Can't tell you how many folks have pointlessly damaged themselves for little gain. Great advice!!
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spottedmedic111
Like everyone else in our unit I learned it the hard way.
Patrol pace is roughly 1 km per hour of patrolling this includes short halts, Long Halts, LDA's, Map checks and so forth it should take 4 hrs to move 4 -5 Km. The point is avoiding detection since the key task is to infil undetected and that means slow deliberate thought out movement. Time under load is patrolling not distance.
If I knew then what I know now this is what I would have done.
Whether you carry 50 or 100 your feet get equally conditioned a 5 miler a few times a week to keep your feet hard is good enough.
You are better doing lots of rucksquats and lunges to strengthen your legs for the terrain.
Get a really good set of boot inserts that support my feet the right way and going cheap is the wrong answer, today you can get a great set of good stiff foot supporting boot inserts for $25.
No runs longer than 5 miles.
Lots of stretching and meditation typing breathing excercises.
core strength training.
Like everyone else am feeling the sins of my youth, we need to educate the next generation so we don't have another generation of half crippled warriors abusing pain killers to do their jobs.