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Originally Posted by Chairborne64
The Trek went out around 97-98. COL M is correct that there was an incredible push for numbers coming out of the Q-course at the time. BG(R) Butler tried to institute a new standard where each O was evaluated on the effort he gave. It soon became obvious to the O's that you didn't have to do much and you would still get a go. That was pretty much the end of the Trek. Several years later their were efforts to bring it back but they never made much traction.
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for sure in '96 it was still in, although in modified form from the "officer stakes" days. Distance and format sound about the same although no tasks to complete at the points.
We did ours at Ft. AP Hill at the end of PH II. It was supposed to be some tricky-dick thing where we all were supposed to think we were done with phase II and going back to Bragg only we really were going to do another event. That deception plan lasted about 2 min after we cornered our AST and asked him why in the hell did it matter to him what our ruck packing list was if we were simply moving back to bragg and getting some days off??
His story sucked and he finally got tired of trying... so he told us to STFU and pack what he told us because we werent' done yet.
FWIW, I thought it was a great event. One of the more memorable of my training. Lots of time to think about what you are doing and why when you're alone in the woods under a ruck.