montanafury
08-26-10, 07:01 PM
Last summer I took a trip down to Camp Pendleton for a 'Deployment for Training.' All the instructors were either grunts or snipers. We covered a lot of things during the course that I wish I could remember, but one of the more innovative ones was apparently a scout/sniper exercise.
The gist of it was that you do some quick PT (we did a quarter mile run, some pushups, jumping jacks, and squats) then we'd stop and get a short amount of time to look at a pile of items on the ground. Then you'd have to leave and try to recall as much information as possible about all the items. I guess it was to train snipers to remember as many details about their surroundings as possible, especially when under physical strain.
Anyway, I was hoping somebody could tell me the name of the exercise? Seems like a good way to break up regular old PT
The gist of it was that you do some quick PT (we did a quarter mile run, some pushups, jumping jacks, and squats) then we'd stop and get a short amount of time to look at a pile of items on the ground. Then you'd have to leave and try to recall as much information as possible about all the items. I guess it was to train snipers to remember as many details about their surroundings as possible, especially when under physical strain.
Anyway, I was hoping somebody could tell me the name of the exercise? Seems like a good way to break up regular old PT