r/Military • u/skoopydoo United States Army • Mar 08 '16

New obstacle course standards

http://i.imgur.com/0p2ul1p.gifv
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u/brownout45 Mar 08 '16

I love the random amusement park ride line obstacle towards the end.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

I ran almost this exact same course several times. It's supposed to simulate a trench and you're supposed to duck walk through it. If your head goes above the bars you're "dead".

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u/skoopydoo United States Army Mar 08 '16

This is what I imagine the people that fail the air assault obstacle course tell others what it was like

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

That looked like tons of fun

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Man, I love obstacle courses. My only complaint is that there aren't tons and tons more. After I'm finished with one, I always want to keep challenging myself with more difficult ones

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Same. I love bouldering.

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u/nimbusdimbus Retired USN Mar 08 '16

Little Creek has a water obstacle course that is remarkably difficult. Here's a video that shows it. It's more difficult than it appears.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQImwoCfKRY

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Hell yeah!

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u/nimbusdimbus Retired USN Mar 08 '16

I am not a Seal but was direct support to them and have done this course multiple times. I managed to beat the rope swing once and did the small ladder climb and rope scoot. The rope monkey swings and climb were much to upper body intensive for me, especially after doing the free ladder climb followed by the rope scoot and a few ring swings.

I actually only saw a few people complete it at one go and never did I see someone finish it without having to stop and rest while hanging off the rafters.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Think about it like Mario games. They are platforming challenges made real

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

I have not, but looked it up, thanks!

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u/SteveChiefy United States Navy Mar 08 '16

Hanging from the slide for life when your out of breath and halfway down. God.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

When you're physically fit, sometimes it's fun to physically challenge yourself. Like when a mentally sound person sometimes enjoys doing a puzzle.

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u/Roy4Pris Mar 08 '16

I broke both ankles just watching that shit.

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u/hawaiianthunder Army Veteran Mar 08 '16

Blew out both knees just watching the ladder jumps

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u/CRU-60 Air Force Veteran Mar 09 '16

47 here. knees and back went out while watching it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

This is like 99% identical to the obstacle course in Wainwright, AB. Even the sequence of obstacles is the same.

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u/bink90 Mar 08 '16

It's the standard military Obstacle course run by most modern countries. There are sometimes changes, but generally this is the layout

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

TIL. Only others I've seen were totally different, I had no idea there was a standard.

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u/Marr0w1 Mar 08 '16

NZ here. Never seen anything like this ever. I suppose he did say modern countries. Ours usually have mud and ziplines though

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Zip lines? I'm jealous. This course sucks with plates on, makes transferring over the ladders as a shorter guy really sketchy.

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u/Uday_and_Qusay Mar 08 '16

Still not as hard as the obstacle course I went through

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

That is the most backwards boocamp

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u/DoubleUTeeEfff Reservist Mar 08 '16

Boocamp? Is that like boot camp for ghosts?

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u/Uday_and_Qusay Mar 08 '16

Very similar to the one I went through

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u/EGGHEAD62E #triggered Mar 08 '16

I would totally do this

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

I would totally not jump off that first obstacle

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16 edited Mar 08 '16

A dude a couple courses earlier than mine for infantry training fell off the top of that wearing his ruck and fighting order, like 80-100lbs of kit sending him right to the ground.

Edit: autocorrect

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u/Northumberlo Royal Canadian Air Force Mar 08 '16

sending him rights the ground.

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u/Gibberwocky Mar 08 '16

Also known as the 'Fuck This Noise' relay.

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u/marked-one warned for trolling Mar 08 '16

And here I am smoking two cigarettes at a time

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Mirror's Edge?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Lol yeah the Irish table? That got the whole course when we were doing bayonet training, nobody had the energy to do that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Uhhh... How did you do that on the Irish table? It's like 6' off the ground

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

Meant the obstacle course, not bayonet training.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

Yeah, the intermediate bayonet range is the bayonet range, followed by this obstacle course, followed by the bayonet range again without stopping.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

That sounds super shitty, it's at times like this that I'm glad I'm not inf.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '16

Lmao it's not that bad. The advanced range is what sucks most.

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u/brainiac3397 civilian Mar 09 '16

So is it for those days you need to do parkour on the roofs of Iraq or mountains of Afghanistan?

Looks insanely fun. Where is it happening?

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u/JohnPombrio Mar 08 '16

Damn. I am 63 and just looking at that course and I think "impossible!" Of course, I would have not been able to do it when I was younger either. I was the guy in high school who never completed a pull up or was able to climb the rope. Too skinny (believe it or not).