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Offline sluggish

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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2009, 09:17:12 PM »
Everything that I've ever heard about that place is that it's cold Cold COLD!

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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2009, 07:57:04 AM »
http://www.goremountain.com/ Great ski place.

Treize and I are both in the Rome/Utica area...the snow can get pretty bad even down here so 4WD and/or snow tires are a must especially up there!

I grew up in Mexico, just down Route 3 from Drum. Land of the 50 inches in one night snowfall and the 10 feet in five days snowfall. As well as the 75 mile and hour during a lake-effect snowstorm. I had times going to the Drum PX while home on leave that I noticed why all the trees grow in 45 degree angles pointing due east- the wind is ALWAYS strongly blowing in from the Lake up there.

Yeah, bring cold weather stuff, and I hope you don't mind snow.
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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2009, 08:23:24 AM »
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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2009, 08:26:49 AM »
Be prepared to spoon with another man......

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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2009, 08:48:43 AM »
I grew up in Mexico, just down Route 3 from Drum. Land of the 50 inches in one night snowfall and the 10 feet in five days snowfall. As well as the 75 mile and hour during a lake-effect snowstorm. I had times going to the Drum PX while home on leave that I noticed why all the trees grow in 45 degree angles pointing due east- the wind is ALWAYS strongly blowing in from the Lake up there.

Yeah, bring cold weather stuff, and I hope you don't mind snow.

...which officially makes you the third person I know from Mexico, NY -- the thriving metropolis that it is  :lol

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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2009, 09:15:42 AM »
:uhoh

Everyone thinks they know what cold is.......  until they've been to, or trained at Ft. Drum  :noid
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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #21 on: October 28, 2009, 11:58:57 AM »
Everyone thinks they know what cold is.......  until they've been to, or trained at Ft. Drum  :noid

This is true, we had units form Alaska come to us for cold climate mountain training.

Supposedly a very different cold than in Alaska, never been to Alaska, but I want to go.
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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #22 on: October 28, 2009, 12:20:01 PM »
I was offer a job with the USDA in Watertown, but turn it down.  dress up warm in the winter, that lake effect brings in a lot of snow. 
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« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2009, 01:08:07 PM »
I really wish I had been stationed up there at Ft Drum.  I'm stuck down with 4th Bde of 10th Mtn at Ft Polk.  It sucks really bad down here. 

Being from the north I would way rather deal with the intense cold than the raging inferno of a crotchy warm bayou summer.  That intense cold also does wonders for insect control.  Being with the rest of the division up there would be a pleasant change too.  Down here we're like the redheaded stepchild of 10th Mtn, and it shows through in a lot of ways. 

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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2009, 07:03:53 PM »
...which officially makes you the third person I know from Mexico, NY -- the thriving metropolis that it is  :lol

We must be the three who left- nobody else who stayed behind can figure out how to turn the computer on. We call it the "Black Hole" for a reason.
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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #25 on: October 28, 2009, 11:55:43 PM »
I really wish I had been stationed up there at Ft Drum.  I'm stuck down with 4th Bde of 10th Mtn at Ft Polk.  It sucks really bad down here. 

Being from the north I would way rather deal with the intense cold than the raging inferno of a crotchy warm bayou summer.  That intense cold also does wonders for insect control.  Being with the rest of the division up there would be a pleasant change too.  Down here we're like the redheaded stepchild of 10th Mtn, and it shows through in a lot of ways. 

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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #26 on: October 29, 2009, 04:53:17 AM »
Another good thing that you DON'T have that the guys at Polk do......
Palmetto bugs that move the furniture in the barracks while you are gone.   :noid
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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #27 on: October 29, 2009, 01:55:42 PM »
I got a lot of buddies with 10th MD ID tried to trade post w/ me. Thank god I declined it, I don't think I'd like the cold very much =)
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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #28 on: October 29, 2009, 11:11:20 PM »
Another good thing that you DON'T have that the guys at Polk do......
Palmetto bugs that move the furniture in the barracks while you are gone.   :noid

For real!

I found a platoon of ants doing battle drill one on my bed one day.  Not cool.
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Re: Anyone been to FT. Drum?
« Reply #29 on: October 30, 2009, 07:17:38 AM »
For real!

I found a platoon of ants doing battle drill one on my bed one day.  Not cool.

I'm partial to the giant cockroaches we had at Knox. Saw one get run over by an Abrams and not even break stride. Swear to gawd I did!
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