02-25-2004, 21:07
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Tent
Hi,
I would like to know when a team usually uses a tent, in wich type of weather.
Thank you very much.
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02-25-2004, 21:11
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When would you use a TENT ???
You may be able to answer your own question !!!
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02-25-2004, 21:20
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Excuse me if it sounds an obvious question, but let's me explain why I ask this. 
The setup of a tent is time consuming.
A tent has a big shape.
A tent is not absolutly necessarily, even in bad conditions.
So, I would like to know at wich point a team normally uses a tent.
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02-25-2004, 21:23
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I never have, on a team.
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02-25-2004, 21:25
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I have but only a couple of times and only in sub-zero temps.
10th Group soldiers are the experts in the tent area.
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07-19-2007, 05:32
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I have but only a couple of times and only in sub-zero temps.
10th Group soldiers are the experts in the tent area.
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Only time 10th use's them is in Alpine training, high elavation, No Snow, Rocky ground, If we have good Snow fall we always make Snow Caves.
Here at Mackall I Use a Crazy Creek Hamock with a Tarp From WalMart for over head cover.
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07-19-2007, 05:47
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Only time 10th use's them is in Alpine training, high elavation, No Snow, Rocky ground, If we have good Snow fall we always make Snow Caves.
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More snow is better....Tree pit works pretty good if you have the right environment. Snow trench can work in a pinch, but if it isn't deep enough (snow isn't deep enough) it is a suck-fest. Been there.
Echo-tats were issued but I am not sure anyone ever really set one up on the team.
Dome tents with 3-fly system were pretty nice, with a vestibule and cold-hole you can hooch-up pretty comfortably. Downside is the weight unless you were pulling a deer-sled or polk it's a lot, but you do what you have to.
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07-19-2007, 08:17
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More snow is better....Tree pit works pretty good if you have the right environment. Snow trench can work in a pinch, but if it isn't deep enough (snow isn't deep enough) it is a suck-fest. Been there.
Echo-tats were issued but I am not sure anyone ever really set one up on the team.
Dome tents with 3-fly system were pretty nice, with a vestibule and cold-hole you can hooch-up pretty comfortably. Downside is the weight unless you were pulling a deer-sled or polk it's a lot, but you do what you have to.
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Snow caves and snow holes on wintex... (winter warfare back in the old days).
Ecotats - heavy, made a good ecw bivvy sack, but they never issued enough poles to create a shelter/tent, and there were never any instructions/training on how to set the f***ers up. I will have nightmares tonight, thanks Ret10...
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07-19-2007, 08:20
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I carried a small tent on a 50 miler once with 10th Group, but quickly dumped it once I figured out snow caves/holes and how much more warmer and comfortable they are.
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07-19-2007, 05:48
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The only times I've used my shelter half was at NTC in the contonement area. EVERYONE had to set them up. They were more concerned with the damn shelter halves being dress right dress than they were about the guerrillas at the gate.
The rest of the time I'm either in a Bradley, a HMMWV, or an OP. No tents there.
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Only time 10th use's them is in Alpine training, high elavation, No Snow, Rocky ground, If we have good Snow fall we always make Snow Caves.
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I am considering backpacking in for my elk hunt this year. Given my skillset, I am thinking a tent will be better than improvising with onsite materials. I am not sure if there will be a enough snow for a snow cave - hopefully there will be no snow.
Right now I only have the family cabin tent - not a small light one.
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09-13-2010, 00:06
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Only once did I use a tent during a training exercise and that was in the Alps during a blizzard. Operational always a poncho hoch, snow cave or holes in the desert. Have used tents during 1-2 week range/dive operations. Those were either GP mediums or their replacement ARFABs.
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02-25-2004, 21:33
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Really, if you think about it, I would have always carried the BIGGEST thing I could find and pitch it way the hell away from where I was !!! I have Never slept in a tent, except when in Boy Scouts, Camp MacKall and when camping with the Family !!
Edited to say that I do not consider the time that I spent at CMK to have been a Boy Scout experience !!!! 
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02-25-2004, 21:33
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Thank you TR,
I wasnt sure but I am not surprised.
What about...houch (excuse-me but I really dont know how to say it in English)? Do you bring houch with you?
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02-25-2004, 21:48
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Yep, used an Aussie hootch any time a shelter was appropriate.
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