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Originally Posted by sa547
What timing. Some nights ago I was watching an NGC documentary about those recruits going through Basic, and one of them didn't made it through the obstacle course.
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Probably those Pes BP (obese) ones or the "injured companies". Besides, they swapped out the obstacle course for the batch beyond 2009 or 2010 - there is no more :
1. Low wall (the first component which almost everyone fails)
2. Low rope (the main component which has a 90% fail rate every batch's first time)
3. Hanging bars
Those three are killers; I once fell from the low ropes and didn't realise that I sprained my back until I removed my webbing back in the bunk - I had a large patch of blue-black on my lower back.
Though I have yet to have my first reservist, some of the guys whom I cross-attached to already have, and are facepalming at how easy the new recruits have it with the new obstacle course - course + 100m run is no longer a problem within 6.5 minutes : it used to be total hell trying to get below that timing even without our field pack.
Of course, they have now the lightweight uniforms with the digital camo, which is half as heavy when wet. The old one weighs 6 kg when soaked in water and dripping.
The only thing we old birds laugh at them is the SAR-21 - an overweight crap weapon that jams for no apparent reason during wet weather. Thank goodness my reservist unit still issues the good old CAR-15s.
