Any advice for NTC? Helpful items or tips?

PFC Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:49:04 -0500

Response by SGT Del Lavature made Dec 10 at 2018 8:14 PM

SGT Del Lavature — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:14:23 -0500

Drink water! Lol

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 10 at 2018 9:43 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:43:45 -0500

Are you going there as a member of a rotational unit or assigned to Fort Irwin?

Response by SSG Laurie Mullen made Dec 11 at 2018 6:20 AM

SSG Laurie Mullen — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:20:01 -0500

Pay attention during the NTC briefing. NTC can be very cold in the winter and it will rain. During one rotation that I was on two or three guys from another unit were sharing a tent in the dust bowl and were burning sterno to stay warm. They didn't have any ventilation and if I remember right, at least one died.

Response by SGT Dave Matteson made Dec 11 at 2018 4:24 PM

SGT Dave Matteson — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:24:23 -0500

Go to a good outdoor store and find yourself an Esbit pocket stove. Go to Costco or Sam's and buy yourself some individual coffee or tea packs like they have in office setting. It saved my life.
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Response by SGT Kevin Berman made Dec 11 at 2018 4:53 PM

SGT Kevin Berman — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:53:38 -0500

Ah, NTC. We got sunburned the first week, sandblasted the second, and snowed the 3rd week.
Just don't let anyone box your vehicle in for the night - if you get hit with CS it doesn't end well. :)

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 1 at 2019 1:33 PM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 13:33:49 -0500

I’m guessing your coming on that hood rotation. I’m OPFOR and the best advice I can tell you is stay alert and stay alive. Pay attention and bring lots of water

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 2 at 2019 8:58 AM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 08:58:30 -0500

For you’re mos NTC maybe helpful but for a support MOS like 12n it’s a waste of time honestly one reason why I’m leaving that MOS because my unit wants to go every year