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More obscene amenities we have known...

By The Armorer on February 22, 2007 | | Comments (12) | TrackBacks (1)

Down, ladies. Really. This is serious stuff. I'm being fully supportive of my buddy Bill Arkin by showing all you nugs out there the obscene amenities we soldiers are lavished with by a duped public and fawning Congress.

[Photo moved to the Flash Traffic/Extended entry, since there have been a few heart attacks. *I* think it's work-safe, but apparently some workplaces are *really uptight*. They better be blocking National Geographic, too...]

Ah, the showers. Standing on the ammo box, sun-warmed water from the bucket cascading down, sloughing away the accumulated grime from traveling to far places, meeting exotic people, and then killing them for fun, profit, and Big Oil. And c-rats for dinner! Ummmm, green eggs and ham! Ham 'n lima beans! Beans 'n weenies!

No, ladies - it's not Sanger. Nor Sugarbuttons. Certainly not the Armorer, who's not had a waist like that since, oh, February 1975. No, make that March 1975. H/t Boquisucio.

Tomorrow - lavish latrine facilities!

BTW, campers - any and all photos of lavish amenities are encouraged! See *your* stuff on the web! Get credit! Amaze your friends and family! Any and all armies and eras - remember, we Myrmidons have to stick together! Well, until after we shower, and aren't as sticky for a little while... Y'know, things like the muddy lake we had to wade through to get to, and back from, the shower trailers at Camp Doha (that would be Camp Doha, Kuwait, that I'm thinking of)?

Shower time!

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By MajMike on February 22, 2007 8:17 AM
much as i am loathe to comment on a pic with a naked dude in it... (well, i guess it's okay cuz he's obviously a tanker too) that's a mighty fine panzer there.
 
By SangerM on February 22, 2007 8:34 AM
Actually, we used to take Aussie Showers in Hawaii, on the Big Island... I have to say there is really something to be said for standing buck naked in the middlw of an open field and just not giving a rat's butt who see's you. And of course, it felt good... But we didn't have the hardware (no pun, NO PUN) to hang the shower on, so we used GP Medium tent poles 100mph taped as a fraem-up. I've got a pic like this, one, but no cool tanks so I won't send it. Plus, I'm sure Arkin would focus on the fact we were in Hawaii as the real benefit. Yeah, at +/-10K feet ASL surrounded by a hundred miles of lava rock and two volcanos, one of which erupted a month after we left there... Yeah, paradise.... Which was quite the opposite of one winter exercise in FRG where we all got to smelling so bad I just had to make the team wash more than their feet and change their socks (that done every day, twice a day). We put a poncho down on top of frozen earth we'd scraped a foot of snow from, we boiled water in a steel water can (fire built around it) and we all stripped and washed, one at a time. It was around 30-40 degrees that day, and nice 'cause the wind wasn't blowing. And shaved, and what have you, and as cold as it was--man, did everyone feel better with clean clothes, etc. Of course we had to air out the vehicle and I made everyone lay their sleeping bags out, etc.. It had been a long 4-5 days, and we had another 3-5 to go. Of course, being the Team Leader, I had to go first, to show the two Southern boys and the New York City guy nothin' would freeze off or crawl back up inside to get away from the cold.... S'ok with me, I got the hotest water. But I have to say, steel pots were made for that, and after the kevlar came out it got harder to do that kind of thing.
 
By BloodSpite on February 22, 2007 8:42 AM
Scanner. Must....find scanner....send pictures. Bwahahahaha
 
By MajMike on February 22, 2007 8:47 AM
take the cover off the coax banana box on the turret floor, and wedge that sucker up under the heater exhaust pipe (just fwd of the right sponson at the back of the right front fender), that makes the perfect shelf upon which to rest a steel pot of precious water for the hot making, with which the bathing is that much more the nicey-nice.... ahhhhh.... ...and now i guess i've got to find some way to digitize the pix of when we blew up the Doha motor pool. sigh...
 
By SangerM on February 22, 2007 12:07 PM
Hey MajMike... You got me remembering.. we used to heat C's on the manifold of the Jeep (M151) while cruising down the road. Was cool, until a can of beans and meatballs exploded under the hood. Cripes! Aside from scaring the *%(87 out of all of us (as we're going down the strasse), there was small dent/bulge in the hood where the can popped, and there beans and sauce all over the engine compartment. And it stank for weeks, and it was baked on. Oh, and we used to use the gun tube (with cover on of course to store cans of soda, until one of those frooze and popped and then it all ran down into the breech when it thawed, etc... Yuch...
 
By MajMike on February 22, 2007 12:30 PM
tell me about it. that's how i caught the Louisiana Guard tankers who were using the gun tube cooler, but actually threw some crushed ice down there too. i was pulling OC duty evaluating these cajuns up at Peason Ridge (north of Fort Polk), and when they never had their tubes level and scanning i initially thought they had some turret problems with elevating.. then they had the electrical short. ice melt had dripped past the breech block and down thru the bananas and run thru the wiring harness. no ammo on board, no fire, but that smell stays with me...
 
By Heartless Libertarian on February 22, 2007 1:16 PM
I think I need to dig up my pics of TF Hawk in Albania...my tent in Mudville.
 
By Instapilot on February 22, 2007 2:00 PM
Hey Heartless, Which one were you in Albania? Bet my mud pictures are betterrn' yours!
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 22, 2007 2:07 PM
So, cough 'em up, flyboy.
 
By Instapilot on February 22, 2007 2:35 PM
They're at home...need to scan 'em somehow...will work on it.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 22, 2007 2:49 PM
Well, like I told Bloodspite - if you trust the Postal Service, send 'em to me and I'll scan 'em.
 
By fdcol63 on February 22, 2007 8:25 PM
The first thing that came to my mind ... Whose a$$ is THAT???!!!!