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Originally posted by commando wannabe
The logic as I understood it in the LLRP/LRP teams was that the Radio was a pain to hump, extra weight and batteries, so the cherries alwasy got to hump them. I dunno if that was SOP with the Army and Marines. As I recall, I only remember reading about it in LRP/LRRP books.
Well in the 82nd we didn't let cherries hump the radio. That was reserved for a squared away and experienced PFC or SPC.
But then again on a LRRP team, every member had some prior experience in a line unit before going to the LRRP unit.
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But then again on a LRRP team, every member had some prior experience in a line unit before going to the LRRP unit.
That's what I assumed after reading the first LRRP book that it was just that particular Team.
With the books I've read, about LRRPS/LRPS, 101st, 173rd these guys where fresh outta basic/ait/bac, in country in some cases only days. some only had a few months in service, either way, once they volunteered and passed that 2 week LRRP trainning, they got to hump the (pr*ck) as they reffered to it.
Maybe the Ranger vets and LRRP/LRP's on this site who served in VN might be able to set me straight. Cos now this is nagging me.
Bouncer, Don, you two out there?
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CW, Bouncer never served in Vietnam.
As far as a cherry being an RTO. That is a complete no go! The books you are reading are about the military in a completly differnt era. A cherry would NEVER be slotted as an RTO in todays Army.
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Roger that Rakk! Thanks for clearing it up.
Knocking out 20, only amount I can do right now.
For some reason I assumed Bouncer was a VN era Ranger.
Evil Unchecked Grows, and Evil Tolerated Poisens The Entire System. Jahwal Nehru ------------------------------------------------------------- In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain.
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Your welcome. I thought you were on profile? No P/U for you! Now your flirting with an ART-15.[:o)]
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I still am, but been doing lite pushups since yesterday. I'd like to try avoding the Physical Therapy that has me doing curls with 3 pd weights, and pushups with one of those assist machines.
Evil Unchecked Grows, and Evil Tolerated Poisens The Entire System. Jahwal Nehru ------------------------------------------------------------- In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain.
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The RTO had to be a squared away troop. Often you had to leave CEOI tasks up to him along with predetermined comm's if you left him at an OP or back 50m as you'd bound through an area.
 When life sucks....make it swallow! "Modify the wedge! First squad! Bound!....."
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