08-21-2007, 20:51
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Location: Originally from Hammond, IN...currently at Ft. Bliss, TX
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El Paso...
is so freaking hot!!!!!
I mean, the heat is uncalled for really.
I think yesterday topped 106..or so I was told.
And today was no better. I went to the range to qualify. And I ended up with blisters on my finger tips because the grip on my weapon got so hot. 
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08-21-2007, 21:31
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A pair of tactical gloves perhaps ?
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08-21-2007, 21:43
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Five day forecast for Baghdad, Iraq
Tuesday
High: 43° C
Low: 26° C
Wednesday
High: 44° C
Low: 30° C
Thursday
High: 43° C
Low: 29° C
Friday
High: 44° C
Low: 30° C
Saturday
High: 45° C
Low: 31° C
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45° C is 113F
Stop whining
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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08-21-2007, 21:48
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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
45° C is 113F
Stop whining
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Yeah, but I hear it's a dry heat. 
In all seriousness, I prefer the 104 degree, low humidity forecasts of the southwest to the 99 degree, 90 percent humidity concoctions of the midwest. The air is so thick and hot that you can't breathe. It feels like a wet towel is wrapped around your head.
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08-21-2007, 21:51
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Originally Posted by RiotMaker
is so freaking hot!!!!!
I mean, the heat is uncalled for really.
I think yesterday topped 106..or so I was told.
And today was no better. I went to the range to qualify. And I ended up with blisters on my finger tips because the grip on my weapon got so hot. |
Two weeks ago, it broke 107 for three days in a row in NC while guys were out at Robin Sage living in the woods. The other days in the high 90s were a nice break.
Are you griping about a couple of hours on the range? indeed.
TR
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08-21-2007, 22:03
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RIOTMAKER
Per your profile, you are the same guy that said he "Likes to watch gay porn" ??? 
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08-21-2007, 22:11
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Per your profile, you are the same guy that said he "Likes to watch gay porn" ??? |
The policy is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".
Unless he is starring in it.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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08-21-2007, 22:18
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
The policy is "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".
Unless he is starring in it.
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He told.
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08-21-2007, 22:32
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I've found that time over "yonder" has made me less inclined to complain about things. Particularly heat, cold, food, showers, any running water, etc...
Also I've found that time overseas has made me less inclined to tolerate other people complaining....
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08-22-2007, 05:24
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As I have said many times over the past 38 years, " If you don't have green tracers zipping past your ears or RPG and mortar rounds pounding the terrain around you, life is good!"
Jim
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08-22-2007, 09:38
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hot weather
Incomin,
I wonder how he would feel if he was humping in the central highlands. I totally agree that if you do not have green tracers coming at you "LIFE IS GREAT."
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08-22-2007, 10:17
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Originally Posted by clapdoc
Incomin,
I wonder how he would feel if he was humping in the central highlands. I totally agree that if you do not have green tracers coming at you "LIFE IS GREAT."
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They don't have to be green, they can be any color as long as they're not coming at you.
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08-22-2007, 10:31
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GREEN TRACERS
I was referring to the tracers that the NVA primarily used. Agreed, life is great when no one is shooting at you and you have enough to eat, a shower and a dry place to sleep.
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08-22-2007, 10:52
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I worry about you
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Originally Posted by RiotMaker
is so freaking hot!!!!!
I mean, the heat is uncalled for really.
I think yesterday topped 106..or so I was told.
And today was no better. I went to the range to qualify. And I ended up with blisters on my finger tips because the grip on my weapon got so hot. |
Son, I worry about you. It was 104 yesterday and just another work day for me. I sat out in the flats 20 miles north of you on 17 day survival FTXs - August no less - back when I was in. Our Carping was about the CoC not the weather.
Is that post really how you want us regulars to remember you?
Have you ever heard the phrase "Suck it up and drive on"?
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08-22-2007, 11:01
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Originally Posted by clapdoc
Incomin,
I wonder how he would feel if he was humping in the central highlands. I totally agree that if you do not have green tracers coming at you "LIFE IS GREAT."
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Ah, yes! The good old days. Humping ten days chow, water, basic load, PRC 25, spare batteries, a 61mm mortar round, freeking WP grenades, and two bladder canteens....... life still was good then.
Jim
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Jim
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