Greetings and salutations,
Cuylus (probably spelled wrong), this was my favorite time at Castel. This is the phase where you learn to shoot or at least the basics. You also learn to throw real granades and blow up a lb of dynamite.
So you stay in a barn that looks like it was made in 1800. And cuylus is really wet and cold. But you get to bring all of your gear so you'll be well outfitted.
When you get there you are tasked with setting up everything then you get a crash course on handling all your weapons with live ammo. You do alot of marching here especially with the 50.cal but only a back pack not your ruck sack and the farthest you go is like 8k maybe. So not to bad. All though the. 50 cal is really heavy after 5k.
My section really drinks alot. Like alot. And from what I've been told my experience was not like most. But they sold us alcohol at every meal. As much as you can afford. Even when you are out shooting. Which is kinda dangerous but really fun.
On the day that we had a shooting test everyone got really really drunk and tons of us missed our targets completely. My self included. For punishment I had to Marche the. 50 back by myself. It was worth it I had so much fun.
The day we blew up tnt they made us go to bed at 8 pm and didn't let us drink anything. I suppose because it's pretty dangerous. But when we threw granades we got hammered again. The logic defys me but nothing bad happened so no harm no foul.
While there you will shoot targets at 400, 300 200 100, 50, and 25 yards mostly with the famas. Although you do shoot the hk417 a few times. You also use night vision and do some sketch night shooting at 300 yards when you can see anything.
But as I said between shooting and drinking it was the best time I had at the 4RE. Each night was a party.
The hardest night of drinking was then followed up by a 8k full battle rattle run. Full gear with your gun and helmet. People were puking while running it was exactly what I expected from the French army. People drunk but still accomplishing the task no matter what the cost.
After a week of this I saw ready to go back to base.
Cheers,
B. B. CODY
Cuylus (probably spelled wrong), this was my favorite time at Castel. This is the phase where you learn to shoot or at least the basics. You also learn to throw real granades and blow up a lb of dynamite.
So you stay in a barn that looks like it was made in 1800. And cuylus is really wet and cold. But you get to bring all of your gear so you'll be well outfitted.
When you get there you are tasked with setting up everything then you get a crash course on handling all your weapons with live ammo. You do alot of marching here especially with the 50.cal but only a back pack not your ruck sack and the farthest you go is like 8k maybe. So not to bad. All though the. 50 cal is really heavy after 5k.
My section really drinks alot. Like alot. And from what I've been told my experience was not like most. But they sold us alcohol at every meal. As much as you can afford. Even when you are out shooting. Which is kinda dangerous but really fun.
On the day that we had a shooting test everyone got really really drunk and tons of us missed our targets completely. My self included. For punishment I had to Marche the. 50 back by myself. It was worth it I had so much fun.
The day we blew up tnt they made us go to bed at 8 pm and didn't let us drink anything. I suppose because it's pretty dangerous. But when we threw granades we got hammered again. The logic defys me but nothing bad happened so no harm no foul.
While there you will shoot targets at 400, 300 200 100, 50, and 25 yards mostly with the famas. Although you do shoot the hk417 a few times. You also use night vision and do some sketch night shooting at 300 yards when you can see anything.
But as I said between shooting and drinking it was the best time I had at the 4RE. Each night was a party.
The hardest night of drinking was then followed up by a 8k full battle rattle run. Full gear with your gun and helmet. People were puking while running it was exactly what I expected from the French army. People drunk but still accomplishing the task no matter what the cost.
After a week of this I saw ready to go back to base.
Cheers,
B. B. CODY