 time you stop putting that water and get your face in that water, it takes your breath away and you never forget that feeling. My name is POC Michael Arling. I am a sniper team leader in one fourteenth infantry and we are here doing ghillie washes at Fort Dix. Ghillie wash is testing your equipment. We are testing how durable our ghillie suit is and putting it through its paces of blending in with its environment. So we are testing to see what rips, what catches on stuff and while also collecting the dirt and environment around us. We are going to put them through tests of friction. So have them low crawl through sand, have them low crawl and drag each other through asphalt and then we go to the swamps for sticks and thorns to catch the ghillie suits, rip them, pull on them and if they don't rip that's a strong point of that ghillie suit. We will wash it off, fix it and do it again. Today was my first ghillie wash and it was definitely one to remember to say the least. My name is specialist Anthony Dweez with HHC 114th. Feeling cold, a little dirty but I can say I understand why it's an essential necessity to acclimate yourself to where you are going to be operating out of. We will ghillie wash everywhere we go. We are heading to JRTC soon so we are going to do a ghillie wash at Pulk. This is a never ending process. The most memorable part was 25 to 30 meter movement through this shoulder high canal or making sure our head is floating just above the sea level and keeping everything submerged under the water. It's cold, it's dirty but you are doing what you have to do to make sure you can get as blended in with your surroundings as possible.