A Wet Cranberry Surprise

This happened in Fort Dix about 40 years ago. It was a weekend drill in November. Several of us left an APC and moved to find cover. We jumped over a small berm covered with bushes.
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Splash! Right into a cranberry bog.

The way they harvest cranberries in New Jersey is simple. Once the berries are ripe, they block off the bog and fill it with water. The berries float off the bushes. All the farmers have to do is skim the berries off the top of the water.

And so, our squad was a victim of cranberry harvesting. We landed in waist-high water. Yuck!

The only thing worse was falling into a rice paddy. That was absolutely foul!  (Fortunately, I did not have that experience. But I knew people who did.)