May 2001 TVCS Bivouac at Pingree Park

We drove up Friday afternoon and returned Monday afternoon.  Come play with us next year!  We had a busy and fun time with gobs of activities besides those shown below, like building shelters, beacon hunting, trading delicacies from MRE's, evening Escape & Evade, CQ (ok maybe that wasn't the most fun), First Aid practice, blindfold walk...

	Group Photo in the Sweetser Condo Tent (marble entryway, three bedrooms and a loft...)		Colonel Quasimodo in his usual pose
	Lt Wilkinson shares his memories from Vietnam on Memorial Day.			CPT Wassom performs surgery on the C/Commander.
	We studied various ways to evacuate injured victims (subjects).  Here's one way...		Carrying the litters across the river during the Search and Rescue Exercise.  Them army boots don't have much traction on the wet wood & stones, many feet get wet.  "Victims" Wolber, Hines and Wilkinson wimp out on the crossing.
	Or with a web strap instead of a rope...		Curse of the 1st Sergeant strikes again.
	Two tree limbs and a blanket folded three times makes a quick and easy litter		Many wet feet and socks drying out, including a boot roasting by the fire.  Notice C/Hart's "vulture" pose.
	Always good to have a light person on your team to be in the litter.		Targets for the airplane flyover, and practicing mirror flashes
	Building the more complex litter -- two long limbs and shorter cross-ties.		Another set of targets, from the ground.  Contrast this with Joel's pictures from the air.
	Once built, it's quite comfortable!		stick through the head...
	Everyone watches the 1st Sergeant get carried by.		The usual suspects...

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