T - 5 Days and counting....

[Trinity]

Afraid, no, but that don't mean I'm strongly in favor of it.

 

I was out today and I was offending myself.   Gosh it was awful.

Next weekend I will be primitive camping Thurs., Fri. and Sat.  I'll be ripe come Sunday.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Trinity, that's what toilet water is for. 

Slim

[Old Top]

Silver Creek Slim,

But I have trouble dipping it out of that bowl the lid keeps droping.        

Old Top

[Silver Creek Slim]

Silver Creek Slim,

But I have trouble dipping it out of that bowl the lid keeps droping.        

Old Top

Slim

[Steel Horse Bailey]

A little body odor?

Trinity, old buddy - you're talking to a guy who went 58 DAYS without a shower during Desert Storm.     I don't say that with pride, it just happened.  And the outside temp never got over 112 Deg. F., either - 'tho INSIDE the turret averaged about 120 and around the turbine engine compartment (the back 1/2 of the tank) it was MUCH higher.

Baby wipes.  We used tons of 'em!


By the way, it was the same 58 days that we ate nothing but MREs, too.  (Meals, Ready-to Eat = 3 lies for the price of one)

But a shower, even 9 miles from the barracks will be welcome!

[Old Top]

Steel Horse,

I was under the impression that MRE stood for Meal Rejected by Eathopieans (sp)     

Old Top

[Texas Lawdog]

They boiled our main course C Rat cans in those trash can water heaters.  Spiced beef was my favorite and Ham and Lima Beans my least favorite.  SHB, I never spent any time one of your M 1's, My short time spent in a tank(M60) was during one summer camp. I guess after 58 days, everyone smelled the same and nobody noticed.

[Texas Lawdog]

I'd send Trinity some Bay Rum scent but I'm afraid he might drink it instead of slawishing it on.

[Trinity]

Silver Creek Slim,

But I have trouble dipping it out of that bowl the lid keeps droping.        

Old Top

 

I'd send Trinity some Bay Rum scent but I'm afraid he might drink it instead of slawishing it on.

Rum's fer drankin'... why on earth would I want to slawsh it on?  Bay Rum, now is that tha spiced kahnd 'r tha coconut kahnd?



SHB, I can do up to three days without a shower... I don't even want to think of 58 days!

[Steel Horse Bailey]

They boiled our main course C Rat cans in those trash can water heaters.  Spiced beef was my favorite and Ham and Lima Beans my least favorite.  SHB, I never spent any time one of your M 1's, My short time spent in a tank(M60) was during one summer camp. I guess after 58 days, everyone smelled the same and nobody noticed.

That's what made it bearable!  We all smelled alike! 


I'll tell ya pards, that first shower (and it was from a 3 gallon canvas "bucket" hanging from the end of the gun tube) - in the desert, in front of God and everybody else - was the most glorious, comfortable, wonderful, fulfilling shower I've ever had!  Kind of makes ya 'preciate the "little things" in life we take for granted!


T. Lawdog, I've had plenty of them boiled c-rats, too.  I favored the beenie-weenies and the stuff they passed off as "stew."

Old Top, yer right, the Ethiopians rejected 'em, I b'lieve.  And ya know whut - them durn Iraqi refugees, who didn't have any food or water, even knew what MREs were pork based - by the number on the cover.  They'd come beggin', but MOSTLY they wanted - hold yer hats .... cigarettes.  I had one jasper offer me a wad of cash 4" in diameter for a pack of smokes.  I coulda come back a millionaire - if I smoked.