Posted: 4/24/2017 5:39:55 PM EDT
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I was messin around on Google Earf the other day and ran across the training area at Coronado.
The beach there is packed with these mounds of sand, but I'm not understanding how they came to be. Are they rubber-boat-fulls of sand dumped out or what? If I'm asking anything confidential, please disregard. Attached File Attached File |
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Looks like where they set their IBS. You can see drag marks. Pretty good resolution. You can always try out and see first hand poor guys, and they're always making them eat those nasty MREs too.....maybe they can get a gluten free version to help out... 
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The first time I looked at Coronado on Google maps I was dumbfounded by the location and appearance of "the grinder". Not at all what I expected after reading numerous memoirs of SEAL's.
If you zoom in on the obstacle course and open Brandon Webb's first book, you can match the sequence of obstacles between the two. The starting point is in an odd place. |
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I'd bet it's beach replenishment done by dump single truck loads. Dealing with beach erosion is ongoing over here. All the estuaries are screwed up, and with the recent rains and storms, more sand is being transported and dumped all over. Seems to really go into high gear every few years, when some politician's relative gets a meaty contract. |
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I was messin around on Google Earf the other day and ran across the training area at Coronado. The beach there is packed with these mounds of sand, but I'm not understanding how they came to be. Are they rubber-boat-fulls of sand dumped out or what? If I'm asking anything confidential, please disregard. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/57642/Coranado-2-194509.JPGhttps://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/57642/Coranado-194510.JPG It's where they bury all their comm gear for long range recon patrols that they don't feel like carrying. |
Besides being old, fat, out of shape, and unable to tolerate yelling and screaming at me, I could never be a SEAL. The water in Coronado is too fucking cold. 
Seriously, I have much respect for those guys. God Bless em and keep em safe. Every year when I visit family on Nado I hoist a beer at McP's and give my own silent toast to all of them. (I might have even gotten drunk one time and scribbled "Fuck JV" on the bathroom wall with sharpie.) |
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For those of you with Google Earth, if you go back to the January 2006 aerial it shows a lot of heavy equipment on the beach prior to the berms being made. Not sure of their purpose but certainly created by heavy equipment. |
