How do you dig a fox hole?

[Badgersmilk]

Kidding aside...  Dont they even say in the video they didnt finish?  And they did bend at least one shovel.  Using a VERY little shovel to dig a VERY deep hole, in VERY little time after fighting & marching all day...  I'd risk the ditch witch.    And be rather happy to poo in it as opposed to filling it back in...   

[fightingquaker13]

I had the same thought in ROTC. My 2nd or 3rd FTX we got to dig our first fox hole. Actually just, just a scrape (I forget the military term, but there was one)  to hide behind, about two feet deep,body length, with the dirt in front as a berm. Luckilly for us, it was in the loamy soil of Va. However, we had been up since 5am run, marched, etc. However it was AFTER our first day on the grenade range tossing live ones. No one asked why we were doing this.
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[tombogan03884]

 Slit trench.  And digging in is a heck of a lot easier than building a fort every night which is what the Roman legions did, complete with 4 gates  abatis and moat.

[Grizzle_Bear]

"How do you dig a fox hole?"


QUICKLY!


Grizzle Bear

[tombogan03884]

Even at Parris Island I never saw a foxhole dug to spec, of course there if you go deeper than 3 feet it's called a well.

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[Matthew Carberry]

Step 1:  Find 2 PFC's with shovels...

 

[fightingquaker13]

Step 1:  Find 2 PFC's with shovels...

 

The only thing in the army lower is a cadet. I flee from that reasoning. Real men dig their own. The higher your rank, the better you ought to be at it, and its your duty (a leadership function if you will) to show us poor grunts how to do it correctly, Sir! (somehow that never caught on)
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[Timothy]

How do you dig a fox hole?

Don't!  Join the Navy!


 

[TAB]

How do you dig a fox hole?

Don't!  Join the Navy!


 

How long can you tread water?

[tombogan03884]

How long can you tread water?

I agree with TAB, It's a long SWIM home 
Still got the Air Force beat though.