{"id":16833,"date":"2012-03-23T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16833"},"modified":"2012-03-21T23:44:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T02:44:56","slug":"did-army-haze-airmen-in-spur-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/did-army-haze-airmen-in-spur-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Army Haze Airmen in Spur Ride?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An official military article notes three US Air Force Airmen went through the trials necessary to receive their “cavalry gold spurs.”<\/a>\u00a0 To do so, they had to complete a “spur ride.”<\/p>\n

The participants formed up outside the Bagram [MWR] and performed a 12-mile ruck march throughout the base. Upon returning…, they dropped their gear and began the various stations that were set up to test their skills. The stations were moderated by Army instructors, referred to only as “Spur Holders.”<\/p>\n

“The stations consisted of [weapons] proficiency, M2 headspace and timing, Self Aid and Buddy Care, 9-line Med Evac, Unexploded Ordnance identification, Nine-line UXO, gas mask procedures, land navigation and convoy signaling,” said Longoria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Before, during and after each station we would be quizzed by the Spur Holders. Then we were PT’ed until we were physically exhausted. After we completed every station and everything was over, we received our spurs and drank from the grog.”<\/p>\n

The grog was a drink concocted by current Spur Holders that is consumed to symbolize the cavalry trooper’s transformation to Spur Holders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s an interesting tradition, and one that is similar to the traditions imposed on up-and-coming applicants to many unique communities — right down to the “tasty” drink at the end.<\/p>\n

The question of the day:\u00a0 Were the participants of the Spur Ride — who were voluntarily PT’d to exhaustion and “required” to drink a “grog”, among other\u00a0unofficial entrance requirements to the cavalry community\u00a0— victims of military hazing<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An official military article notes three US Air Force Airmen went through the trials necessary to receive their “cavalry gold spurs.”\u00a0 To do so, they had to complete a “spur ride.” The participants formed up outside the Bagram [MWR] and performed a 12-mile ruck march throughout the base. Upon returning…, they dropped their gear and began the various stations that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,88,1763,2710,3074,40],"class_list":["post-16833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-army","tag-bagram","tag-hazing","tag-spur-ride","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}