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Seabee71's Basic Combat Training at Sun Valley

We learned that you can see a cigarette lit at 400 yards, hear a bolt go home in a rifle at 300 yards, hear whispers at 200 yards. We watched flares of every description light up the night—old friends once in Vietnam. My platoon and I sat through classes in night sounds, patrol movements, first aid, battle dressings as we learned to use most of the equipment used by the Marines in combat. There was marching and more marching.  Lunch every day was a box of C-Rations for each man, followed by

Seabees from 71 negotiate the rope bridge over a revien somewhere on the Sun Valley Training Grounds, a f