Nature Walk
One
afternoon, we went with the JGSDF out on about an 8 mile hump. They like to go
slower than we were used to, but nobody on our side was complaining. Behind me
is the rest of the Tre Deu. One thing we always did to keep our spirits up on a
conditioning hump was to tell jokes. Andrus was our team joker, and he could do
anything from Andrew Dice Clay to Curly to Edith Bunker. It was a very eerie
feeling to be hiking next to Japanese soldiers. I couldn't help but think about
how our grandfathers had slaughtered each other without mercy, and now we were
training together as allies. It's amazing really. After the hump, we stopped and
exchanged lunches with the Japanese. Their meals had a lot of rice, fish, and
curry in them. Most of us preferred our MREs, and I could tell the Japanese did
not think much of our four year old corned beef hash. Can't really blame
them.
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