My Butt Hurts

[rabbidrabbit]

I used bike shorts for chafing and duct tape on the feet.  Sure beats trying to stuff bloody hamburg back inside a boot most of the way through.

[Getback]

I used bike shorts for chafing and duct tape on the feet.  Sure beats trying to stuff bloody hamburg back inside a boot most of the way through.

  I have duct tape on now to protect a callous. 

[thundabooge]

Boudreaux's Butt Paste.  A diaper rash product that works wonders.

[JunkyII]

I always free balled it during road marches.

Its a new Army, we got PXs with the under armor shorts that help but in Basic I sucked it up with the Tan tights they gave out.

Is that normaly what you guys will carry on you doing field training?

Also i am getting schedueld to go to MEPS next weekend. I am hoping to get 19D but my recruiter said there is a high chance it will be full so then i'll do 11X.

This wasnt a FTX, in the field you might not even bring a ruck, but for Basic my ruck was about 45 pounds but we left them at the PB most of the time while we went out and did training missions. If you go Infantry you will do alot of fun training which makes you stand out from everyone else. My company is the only Infantry unit in the Battalion and we look like SF compared to them when we Stick lanes, which we actually run for them  I smoked 4 Specialists as a private when I caught them all Flagging eachother before they entered a room during room clearing, was fun "FRONT LEANING REST POSITION MOVE"

[texasmom]

That's pretty excellent time! Most I ever did was 12 miles in 3 hrs. Almost didn't make that time deadline ~ I only made it with thanks to a former soldier of my fathers who saw me along the way & walked with me the entire back half.  

[JunkyII]

That's pretty excellent time! Most I ever did was 12 miles in 3 hrs. Almost didn't make that time deadline ~ I only made it with thanks to a former soldier of my fathers who saw me along the way & walked with me the entire back half.  

Yea a pace person is nice, I was personally trying to kepp up with my Ranger team leader and Ranger LT but they got alot more miles on the feet then me, found out the route we did was 16 miles all together and when I hit 3 miles I was at 37 minutes, my feet are still hurting BUT DRIVE ON SOLDIER

[skullman]

the cutoff pantyhose works well for along day in the saddle

[Ex-jazz]

Oh yeah?

1997 I had a company winter outdoor day and there I fall pretty badly with snowboard on very ice slope.... Yes, a fractured tail bone {add your scream here}.

Next morning I had a business flight and then a rough taxi drive through the city to the train station and finally a long bumpy train trip to the destination. I was doing my best to get a toxicological unconscious but the pain just didn't let me go

It's funny how you can remember some of these old day stuff after ward's 

[fudgums]

in West Virginia.

ReDhAwK

Where at because theres some kind of military thing in my area

[USRanger]

Its a new Army, we got PXs with the under armor shorts that help but in Basic I sucked it up with the Tan tights they gave out.

Tip of the trade:  Never wear Under Armor on combat operations.  They discovered when lit on fire (like from an IED) it melts to the skin like rubber or plastic would, making burns much much worse.  My unit was outright banned from it.  I still see soldiers on TV wearing the stuff and I just shake my head.  I was hit by an IED in Mosul in '04.  I was mosty toasty, but if I'd had that stuff on, I'd be dead.

[JunkyII]

Tip of the trade:  Never wear Under Armor on combat operations.  They discovered when lit on fire (like from an IED) it melts to the skin like rubber or plastic would, making burns much much worse.  My unit was outright banned from it.  I still see soldiers on TV wearing the stuff and I just shake my head.  I was hit by an IED in Mosul in '04.  I was mosty toasty, but if I'd had that stuff on, I'd be dead.

I just burned it all in my trashcan, man thats some crazy stuff that should be Army wide

[Lord ReDhAwK]

30 minutes North of Morgantown Fudgums.  Very small base.  Topographics look like a drunk worm up there 

ReDhAwK

[Nilsen]

Junky,

If you are going to be doing a lot of roadmarch prep, go get yourself some pantyhose at the PX.  Cut em off half-way and put em on.  They will keep you from chaffing even if you ran the entire 12 miles.  

Put plenty of foot powder inside your socks.  Dont just rub it on your feet.  Actually pour some extra inside for the sweat you'll generate at that high a pace.  

Pad ANYTHING that rubs on you.  I have heard modern day rucks dont rub like the old Large, external frame,  Rucks we used to use in my day.  I still have spots on my back rubbed to something "other than" flesh from years of Humping.

Take the tips or leave em.  But these are tips that got me through Niemegan in the 80's, Ranger School in the 90's, and ummm, Army Advanced Land Navigation School   in West Virginia.

ReDhAwK

Good advice. Did the pantyhose thing myself when i did the marches at OCS. On the few occations that i go hiking in the mountains i still use that trick, and find them somewhat better and more arousing than bike shorts 

[fudgums]

30 minutes North of Morgantown Fudgums.  Very small base.  Topographics look like a drunk worm up there 

ReDhAwK

Wouldnt the base be in Maryland or PA? 

[Nwbie]

Some good advice here.
The better half is doing the 3 day Cancer walk in August -www.3day.org

60 miles in 3 days - she has been training 5 to 6 miles a day and doing a 10 to 15 on weekends.

What do you folks with long hike experience recommend for the lady?

I have shown her the pantyhose and powder ideas - anything else?

NwBie