31 Jan 2021 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Ranger Patrol reporting of sergeant during training maneuvers. '3-28-44. Paik. Ranger Patrol from 2nd Bn reporting to T/Sgt D W Barsh, with pencil and tablet, after returning from a reconnaissance patrol while on maneuvers at Morro Bay, California. 168-L-44-1084.' Army Signal Corps photograph Photographer: Paik. Camp San Louis Obispo, California. 28 March 1944

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[browningautorifle]

Of course they're smiling, they're in California. Three months from now maybe not so smilie...

[Bill Hollinger]

Went to a SWAT academy at Camp SLO. Lots of poison oak there!!!

[browningautorifle]

Lots of poison oak there!!!

Camp Pendleton too. There's an area behind the Navy Hospital that's out of use because of it. We were assigned to use that very area...

[Bill Hollinger]

Camp Pendleton too. There's an area behind the Navy Hospital that's out of use because of it. We were assigned to use that very area...

And Fort Ord. That whole west coast is over run with the stuff! I heard long ago that the military actually grew that stuff during WWII and dumped tons of it in the Pacific to allow the current to carry it to Japan so the Japanese would have to deal with it rather than US military. I don't know if it's true but something I heard 50 years ago.

I've had it enough and bad enough I'd call it a military strain!

[browningautorifle]

I heard long ago that the military actually grew that stuff

We heard at the time it was sown the same way and reason as Agent Orange, tested to be used in RVN. I was told this in '85 though. Perhaps there's a thread of truth to the part about it being tested for a combat deterrent.