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A few pictures I managed
to save
from Special Forces Training (Ft. Bragg, NC).
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During a recent foray into my archives, I managed to retrieve these pictures
from my training days at Special Forces Training Group, Ft. Bragg, North
Carolina. Although the pictures were taken with a relatively inexpensive
(and small!) camera, they manage to convey the spirit (as they say: the agony
and the ecstasy) of my training days with Special Forces Training Group at Fort
Bragg.
These first 10 pictures I took during one of our required jumps
to maintain "jump status" at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. At the time, we were authorized to wear our Green Berets with the SF
crest, but no group Flash.
I believe the jump was conducted during the month of August or September
as the weather was fairly warm, but not too windy. Otherwise, the
Drop Zone Safety Officer would
have delayed the jump.
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Our usual ride to Pope AFB:
a "deuce & a half"
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Some of the other guys
in our training group
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Mike Chase and
"yours truly"
at Pope AFB
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All I need is a gold tooth
to be the "GTMFIC"!
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Guess it's time to don the
steel pots: here come's our ride!
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Somewhere over Ft. Bragg DZs:
Sicily, St. Mere-Eglise, or . . .
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Stand up, hook up, shuffle to
the door,
Step right out and count to 4!
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Here's a picture of an MC-1:
a steerable T-10 with
slip risers.
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Jeff Neely waiting to turn
in his 'chute and geer.
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Cheated death again! All my
gear packed up on the DZ.
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This second group of pictures I took during our final FTX (Field Training
Exercise) before we were awarded our Special Forces MOS (the derivation of
the term "4-S qualified"). The exercise took place in the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area of the
Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. We were parachuted into a corn field in Western North
Carolina with a heavy field pack for the two week exercise. According
to the
North Carolina Outdoors website, the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area of the Pisgah National Forest is so
rugged that "US Army Special Forces, Rangers and US Marines do their
wilderness training here. Tenderfoots beware: Linville Gorge is no walk
in the park!"
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See the sign over my shoulder
to Hawks Bill Mountain!
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Here's King, Lloyd and Jack near the Linville Gorge Overlook.
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King, Jim, Lloyd and me (L to R) at the Linville Gorge Overlook.
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1500 feet down the gorge
tomorrow with all our gear!
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Down one side and up the other:
half way through our “gorge traverse”!
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Last but not lease: a couple of random pix from training days in Special Forces.
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Home-Sweet-Home
at Camp McCall.
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Gabriel Demonstration Area
Ft. Bragg (mid-1960s).
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