Heck, one the back 40 at Ft Lewis, we did a 'circle the wagons' 7-day FTX and in a 4-hour period, we had snow, hail, rain, and bright sunshine. I'll never forget when some wise-apple at the ECP and manning the Ma Duce called up the Batt net on his brick, saying, "Uh, I got this old guy in long robes, holding a stick, saying we need to 'let his people go' or he'll hit us with a plague of locusts next..." You could hear the ripple of laughter all through the BSA among the NCOs and officers who caught the Moses joke. Never did find out who that was.
We never had a lot of trouble with rail loads, I suppose because we did it so often. I was with 3BDE, 2ID at Ft Lewis during the initial transition between Heavy Mech and what later became Stykers.
