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Interesting. Thanks for the update! Wonder what drove the change. It was only about a 7 mile run and done at an incredibly slow pace.
No clue. Run back may be my favorite memory with my '21. My '23 was hoping it would turn back to run back but it is a ruck.
 
@Love4monsters @Casey My class last year was the first to do "Ruck Back" instead of Run Back. It was said that rucking provides a more tactical approach and moving in a staggered column unfazed is more intimidating to the New Cadets of "what's to come".
 
@Love4monsters @Casey My class last year was the first to do "Ruck Back" instead of Run Back. It was said that rucking provides a more tactical approach and moving in a staggered column unfazed is more intimidating to the New Cadets of "what's to come".

Haha, this sounds like a senior leader somewhere finding a reason to not do a formation run which don’t get me wrong, I am normally 100% behind, as I hate formation runs. Bane of my existence at Rucker when they decided to get the entire post all into a formation 😒

I did March Back twice and Run Back twice (once as the training audience and once as cadre for each). Each was a good experience in its own way. I preferred the run, because it wasn’t as painfully slow even though it’s a slow run. It’s crazy by the time you’re an upperclassman and have done some other training (CFT, AASLT, etc) how slow and painful March Back feels compared to the first time you do it. I had to run up and down the line with my NCs when I did it the second time just as much to not hurt myself as to encourage them with the very carefully moderated pace it’s done at, seeing its most folks’ first 12 miler ever.

Now, I’m a pilot and will embrace the life of not rucking pretty much ever. It ruins the flow in the hair;)
 
Haha, this sounds like a senior leader somewhere finding a reason to not do a formation run which don’t get me wrong, I am normally 100% behind, as I hate formation runs. Bane of my existence at Rucker when they decided to get the entire post all into a formation 😒

I did March Back twice and Run Back twice (once as the training audience and once as cadre for each). Each was a good experience in its own way. I preferred the run, because it wasn’t as painfully slow even though it’s a slow run. It’s crazy by the time you’re an upperclassman and have done some other training (CFT, AASLT, etc) how slow and painful March Back feels compared to the first time you do it. I had to run up and down the line with my NCs when I did it the second time just as much to not hurt myself as to encourage them with the very carefully moderated pace it’s done at, seeing its most folks’ first 12 miler ever.

Now, I’m a pilot and will embrace the life of not rucking pretty much ever. It ruins the flow in the hair;)
Ahh yes. The Mother Rucker "Fun Runs". Company forms at 0400. BN forms at 0430. Start run at 0600. The only good part was that I always seemed to form up in front of the monument to my dad's division from WWII back when it was on the parade field.
When I became an IP I got into teaching the NVG phase as quickly as possible just to get out of them.
 
Ahh yes. The Mother Rucker "Fun Runs". Company forms at 0400. BN forms at 0430. Start run at 0600. The only good part was that I always seemed to form up in front of the monument to my dad's division from WWII back when it was on the parade field.
When I became an IP I got into teaching the NVG phase as quickly as possible just to get out of them.

The last one I did there, it was a post wide run where my part of the formation didn’t even start running before the start of the formation had turned around and was coming back. It was a mile and a half to the turn around. Much camaraderie and morale was created that day. :rolleyes:
 
I supposed I’ll comply and won’t try to visit my DD yuk.

There’s a reason why they asked parents not to visit their cadets. I understand.

Fortunately, we can FaceTime her pretty much every night. We won’t do that every night of course. We text every day. She was expecting not to see us until Christmas. I hope this year will be just as fun and successful as plebe year.
 
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