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  • #16
    Re: For the Record

    The distances are simply the road miles, not including flanking, scampering, skeddadling, pacing, backtracking, sidestepping, deploying, rallying, grand rounds, finding a sink and Frank Aufmuth's constant movement from far up front to back of the pack.
    Soli Deo Gloria
    Doug Cooper

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    • #17
      Re: For the Record

      That and the distant rounds from the Fort Polk artillery range really added to the event.
      That was actually Peason Ridge Training & Impact Area... Fort Polk's Redleg Impact Area on the main post is about 20 miles further south and doesn't include the CALFEX (combined arms live fire exercise) range that Peason has. Me, I liked shooting at Peason Ridge a lot better, though...

      Pacesetters, sir!! ;-)
      Tom Ezell

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      • #18
        Re: For the Record

        Mr. Tyler,

        The distances listed represent horizontal measurement, only. Thursday and Saturday’s routes included more varied terrain features; those of Friday and Sunday were more uniform and gentle. The alterations made to the originally planned route eliminated the most rugged section.

        Mr. Cooper,

        The controlled burns in the areas we traveled were conducted piecemeal and over a period of a couple of weeks, though one section was burned as recently as the Tuesday of the event week. The Kisatchie Ranger District tries to conduct controlled burns on a 3-5 year rotation, so it was just a matter of coincidence that those particular areas were burned, even if the matter of the Secesh camping in the burned-over area Friday night while the Feds rested peaceably upon thick mats of pine straw next to well-fueled campfires suggests otherwise…

        regards,

        geoffrey lehmann
        geoffrey lehmann

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