When some people tell their children they walked ten miles to school in the snow over hills in the darkness, they will be lying. If I tell the story about walking to school I will be lying also. If I say I walked ten miles (or more, I wasn't counting and sometimes you get lost in the dark) in training for the Manchu Mile I will be telling the truth.
Walking in the dark with 50+ pounds of military gear on one's back is punishing work. It something we do routinely in the First Battalion, Ninth Infantry Regiment of the Second Infantry Division. We're tough (and or crazy) like that.
Uncle Sam seems determined to get his money's worth out of me before I get out of the Army.
