Welcome to the Jungle



Welcome Candidate! This is your first run on the obstacle. The OCourse is more fun than sex, Well, ok, its not quite that fun, but it beats a sharp stick in the eye. Now I want you to pay close attention. What you lwarn here could save your life, or your teammates life in combat. It will also get you through this course, which should be your primary focus right now. Pay attention while Eagle 46 shows you how its done. Rule One: Noone walks on the Obstacle course, Rule Two: See rule one.



Vault the Wall avoiding the red lines at either edge and run to the next obstacle


Jump up onto the low log and jump onto the upper log. Try to hit with your stomach. Hitting with your chin, chest, or groin are self critiqueing mistakes.


Jump up onto the rope prior to the red line. Use hand over hand motion to get to the other red tape. Its only a 100 feet or so. Easy stuff.


Jump over the pit. Falling in could be detremental to your health.


This one is easy if done properly. Climb this side of the cargo net, roll across the top and come down the other side. Be sure to make contact with the bottom rung on both sides of the net.


Hands behind your head and get over the highstep logs. No problem. Your arms tired yet?


This would be an easy balance beam....if the logs were attached to the base. They are not so quickly cross these little nasties


Face in the dirt and move with a purpose. This is the lowcrawl. Its more fun after a good rain and it fills with mud


Climb onto the monkey bars and ensure you make contact with each bar.


Mount the dip bar on one end on the red tape. Hand walk to the other end touching the other red tape


This is the inclined wall. Climb up one side and go down the other. No problem


Get off the wall and get over this low log.


Select a side and stick with it. run across this obstacle.


Welcome to the wall. This particular obstacle "gets" more people than any other. Grab the rope and scale the wall. Place ONE (1, UNO, Waheed, Ainst, Hanna) ONE! leg over the top and pull yourself up. Placing two legs on the wall has certian bad side effects as is shown below.

Dont try this at home. He fell off onto his back not long after this picture was taken. He will live, but the pain will remind him of the mistake.


Drop and hang from the backside of the wall and immediately run over to the Low wall, jump over it, and highcrawl until the instructor tells you to recover.


This is the weaver. Just weave your body through the logs. No problem. Feeling tired yet?


Get off the weaver and run to this obstacle. Its the rope swing. The rope will be hanging straight down between the two points. Jump on the low board, jump to the rope as high up as you can and swing to the other board, landing with balance.


There are 10 or 15 logs that you now have to get over. Isint this fun?


Run from the beams to this obstacle. Take a flying leap and get over it. Its the lovable concrete tube.


Now enter the tube and negotitate the beams that are placed inside there. Oh yea, dont use your hands.

Now knock out 10 pushup (may not seem like alot, but after this course 10 is enough)and then hit the roped 4x4




SSgt Basch, an instructor at the course, runs the Obstacles for fun


TSgt Kibby, an instructor at the course, also runs the obstacles. See dosent this look like a fun job to be in?



Of course, on every parade a little rain must fall. If you failed to negotiate any of the obstacles you have failed to meet standards. You get to visit the gig pit. This gigpit is not a fun place to be, but it is designed to reinforce your desire to complete the course. It is too easy to quit in the face of adversity, quitters will get fellow TACPs killed in a combat situation. So, what you do in the gigpit you do for your benifit as well as ours. Being in the gigpit does not mean you are a wimp or a quitter, it means you did not meet the standards of the course and are on remedial training. It is a wake up call for you to improve yourself through self motivation (The Gym, running, more pushups etc). Suck it up and drive on candidate!


Duckwalking around the gigpit builds character

So do wheel barrow races, back and forth across the pit.