The confidence course.

I was going through Basic at Ft. Knox, away back in '76, where I met my first recycle. Recycles are those trainees who didn't make it through some particular school (in this case, Basic Training) and have to start all over. This guy had a pretty good excuse, though. Seems he took a tumble on the confidence course. There's a structure there, one of many towers to climb, consisting of two upright telephone poles, with a stack of telephone poles braced between them, like rungs on a giant ladder. Trouble is, the rungs of this particular ladder are huge, and unevenly spaced. The higher you go, the further apart they are. The trainee has to climb to the top, about 50 feet, go over the top, then climb back down. Well, this kid fell from the top. I met him at the post exchange. Both his arms were in casts.

Be careful out there, J. I want to pass this site back to you, ya know?

Cheers,
Dan