What is the worst field environment you have experienced

[SF_BHT]

Originally Posted by Brush Okie

Being married to my ex wife

And when did you graduate the Q Course?
QP's are being asked questions here!!!!

[SF_BHT]

Originally Posted by bravo22b

You must have been on the rotation after me, I was there in March of '93. I don't remember it raining for 11 days, but I do remember it being 13 degrees and freezing rain on our first night "in the box". We were coming from Hawaii, most of us were wearing jungle boots, and we were only carrying one sleeping bag for every three guys. Good times.

It might not have been the absolute suckiest time in the field, but it definitely wasn't the best.

Your BDE Cdr was SF qualified. I took my team to Hawaii to be your SOF liaison team. Your unit did not have a clue what we could do and did not want any liaison as they were way behind the power curve. We did enjoy the beach each day......

[BMT (RIP)]

Dusty Duc Co VN!!
DAMN dust got into everything.
We only had 110 gallons of water a day for showers and 10 or 15 guys.
Gave new meaning to a "Whores Bath"!!

BMT

[bassbuckeye]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Recon operations at Ft. Polk, LA in the middle of August, 1980. 113 degrees.

Impossible...they didnt have global warming back then

[2018commo]

Originally Posted by bravo22b

You must have been on the rotation after me, I was there in March of '93. I don't remember it raining for 11 days, but I do remember it being 13 degrees and freezing rain on our first night "in the box". We were coming from Hawaii, most of us were wearing jungle boots, and we were only carrying one sleeping bag for every three guys. Good times.

It might not have been the absolute suckiest time in the field, but it definitely wasn't the best.

We were the "SOCCE" Team, had a wild time on infil threading our way on foot between the OPFOR shooting Stingers at the Rangers. With the weather being TU, the bad guys disappeared, so we split into thirds and had eyes and fire missions on both DZs when the OPFOR jumped in. Best part time job ever.

[spottedmedic111]

Hohenfels, Germany January 1985.

FYI....field jackets suck.

[Team Sergeant]

Training: Dugway Proving Grounds in Jan sleeping/freezing in a bomb crater.

Combat: Staying at the Kuwait International Airfield for a day or two, it was completely destroyed.

[TOMAHAWK9521]

Benedict DZ, Bad Toelz, Germany, September 1987: while trying to make it the assembly area in the wee morning hours with a broken back. Either too stupid to realize how badly I was injured or too worried about getting smoked by my gunner and PSG for being late.

[x SF med]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Recon operations at Ft. Polk, LA in the middle of August, 1980. 113 degrees.

I agree, the entire summer of the 1980 heatwave at Ft Benning and Ft Riley, Jump School at 112 degrees or being in an M113 APC in that kind of heat truly sucked.

Although being snowed on while in a recon position and not being able to move for 6 hours without compromising the position is right up there.

As has been said, each environment has its own challenges.

[The Viper]

Originally Posted by x SF med

I agree, the entire summer of the 1980 heatwave at Ft Benning and Ft Riley

It has been a couple hot dry years for working on the farm in Kansas recently but I'm always reminded by my dad if I complain about the heat that of a long list of places not to be in the summer of 1980 (outside for one thing) Kansas was pretty high on the list.

[MtnGoat]

Training: Winter Exersice Training (WET) in the Colorado Flat Top Wildreness. 150Km suckfest!! Yes our TM SGT Goal was to cross country Ski 150K in 5 day. Trying to recreate a Dumbusa JCET or something. I think out of a 9 man ODA, only 3 of us didn't hit the "wall."

Combat: Helland, AFG December a time frame, GMVs doing a RON and is just pissed down cold, near sleeting rain.

[Utah Bob]

Hmmm....Several klicks from Toelz up in the alps. Nothing but a poncho liner, trying to sleep in the spring rains.
Mountain training in Pinkham Notch in the winter.
Winter warefare training at Camp Drum.
The entire freaking monsoon season in III Corps in '70!

[WarriorDiplomat]

Ft Lewis,

Doing the 12b Sapper stakes annual TPU field re-cert.

Squad re-cert miserably wet doing an 11 row wire obstacle @0200 the night was so dark no nods, we would have someone hold the pickett at the bottom place the picket pounder on the pickett and then adjust where the hands were clear so we could pound the pickett into that rocky ass ground. Fingers got so cold, wet and throbbing and trying to tie the barbed wire with the 3 wraps.

Then doing a triple standard wire obstacle once we got into Platoon as we shaped the battlefield and had to build a kilometer's worth. And again pounding picketts, tying wire and stringing out concertina.

The work is hard enough but with full battle rattle no night illum, raining, cold, fatigue, burning traps and back, M16-A2 slapping around, and a fence or obstacle that seems to never end.

Been colder in the Mountains and midwest and have been in inhospitably hot places in Africa and Iraq but there is something about those field problems in the Pacific Northwest.

[mark46th]

Thailand. It was awful. Great food, cold beer and beautiful women...