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Bear Grylls Is A Pussy

I remember when Man vs. Wild first began its promos I thought it might be a cool show watching some guy get stuck in bad situations and teach you cool tricks on how to survive. I was always fascinated by this stuff in Scouts and had a lot of fun getting to try them in “simulations.” Then SERE came along and I got to do it for real. And I mean really for real. Really. Yes, there are stories coming. I’m just still writing them, but don’t make me digress from my original rant, damnit!

When the show finally aired, I was more than perturbed to find that everyone’s favorite “survivalist” was that much more the sensationalist. Don’t get me wrong, the man has some impressive credits: climbed Mt. Everest, was SAS and I’ve been told completed the Army’s Ranger course but I can’t verify that. So why is it that he has to go in to each episode acting like his very life depends on the elephant shit that he’s going to drink?

There are at least five more stomach-able ways you can get water. Yes, even in the Sahara.

I don’t watch the show much, but apparently Grylls did an episode about surviving on volcanic land which they taped in Hawaii. A family friend was the crew’s escort on the lava fields and couldn’t believe her eyes when they started sticking flares in the lava pits because there wasn’t enough smoke! But then I don’t really need to prove my point with second hand information, I have this:

Oh yeah, I almost forgot.  Who’s going to be the 400th village idiot?

AH-64

The problem with having a digital camera is that you take so many photos it becomes a real pain in the ass to sift through all of them and then edit the ones you like. I took these back in September right after WOCS. Then that whole SERE thing got in the way and then another class had to be completed before I could finally sit down and take a close look at these.

We were working yet another detail as range safety personnel while company personnel qualified on the M-9 (9 mm Beretta). I brought my camera knowing we’d have “some” time on our hands. What I didn’t expect was that the Apache students would be training on the range right next door. With those 30 mm chain guns. This would have been the money shot had I a telephoto, but for the want of a hammer and blah blah blah… If you squint real hard you can see the expended shells falling. There’s a better shot of falling shells along with one or two fly bys over here.