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Docreed2003

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2. If you've never been, I'd strongly recommend making the trip to Toccoa

Wed Jun 6, 2018, 03:47 PM

Jun 2018

Make the walk up Currahee Mountain and get a feel for just how steep that damn last 100 yards is, and that's BEFORE you reach the portion that they had to climb up the mountain to slap the rock at the top. My best friend, an active duty officer who had served in that modern airborne unit, ran the 10k they have every year there last summer and he, who's in great shape, said it was the hardest run he'd ever made up that mountain....it certainly helps you appreciate just how tough as nails those guys were and why they were as close as they were.

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Camp toccoa [View all] TEB Jun 2018 OP

Precursor to the modern Airborne and Ranger units bigbrother05 Jun 2018 #1

If you've never been, I'd strongly recommend making the trip to Toccoa Docreed2003 Jun 2018 #2

Exactly airborne studs to this day TEB Jun 2018 #3

He wants me to do the run with him next year Docreed2003 Jun 2018 #4

I'm 52 doc TEB Jun 2018 #7

Well... Docreed2003 Jun 2018 #8

... DashOneBravo Jun 2018 #14

Lol...oh I know very well it is! Docreed2003 Jun 2018 #15

I've always wanted to go DashOneBravo Jun 2018 #9

Its a must do if you're a WWII buff or fan of "Band of Brothers" Docreed2003 Jun 2018 #10

Actually I am both DashOneBravo Jun 2018 #12

If you decide to go... Docreed2003 Jun 2018 #13

My father's high school friend "Monk" Weigel was a paratrooper cyclonefence Jun 2018 #5

I could not imagine what fear he expirenced TEB Jun 2018 #6

Man did you ever talk about that? DashOneBravo Jun 2018 #11