We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:56:32 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Given the recurrent threads of Wally World, the VA and the State of Military Health Care In General this past week, it seems kind of appropriate to finish this off today. 'Specially since the only e-gram I got was from BCR hmm. No 24-hr Ebola? Then it *has* to be an intestinal parasite about 6ft long. With fangs. And it detached because you weren't feeding it enough. It wanted to evacuate a la Aliens but the 27" zipper defeated it. Heh. Close, but no kewpie doll, Doll. While the Mekong Delta wasn't exactly a fever swamp (only about a third... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:05:48 -0600 V5 - You guys weren't acclimatized yet, which is why you dehydrated so fast. You'd have been just as miserable if it hit you at the six month mark, but it would have taken at least 12 hours to shrivel you up. Now imagine bouncing in a helicopter with all that going on -- uuhhhhhmm -- going out... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html#comment-58241 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html#comment-58241 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:20:03 -0600 Oh man... that takes me back to Desert Shield. During the build up my unit had only been in Daharan, Saudi Arabia, for about three weeks. We were stuck at a -- 10,000 +/- man -- camp called Cement City. We called it Semen City, but that's a different story. HEH! Anyway, so many people came down with a similar bug that at least two Combat Support Hospitals were flooded with troops within 72 hours. It seems that the 4 hole out-houses were a tad to close to the mess tent and the flies were going back and forth, back and forth. In fact, the only way to keep the flies off your food was to liberally coat everything with Tobasco, or some other brand of, hot sauce. There I was, filling sand bags with the rest of my platoon, when in a matter of minutes it hit me, and most of the rest of us. With a great portion of the troops of Cement City to soon follow. The first sign was just a headache. The second sign, within 10 minutes, was the involuntary evacuation of your stomach and bowels at the exact same instant. YEAH!! Projectile puking and rocket booster shits in the same instant... nasty, wet, stinking, and uncontrollable. It was a mess, to say the least. By the time I got to the clinic I was so dehydrated that they couldn't get an IV started and I couldn't hold even a sip of water down. Sip, heave, puke, spasm, shit, heave, puke, spasm, shit... sip, repeat! By the time I got to the CaSH my temp was approaching 105 and I was packed in ice. Later -- about 5 days later -- the doc told me that they had induced a coma to keep me in the ice as long as possible and reduce the chance of brain swelling and injury. After seven days in the CaSH I was deemed fit for duty. Worst sickness I've ever had, and I don't even remember 75% of my hospital stay. LOL V5 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html#comment-58239 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html#comment-58239 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:35:04 -0600 Oh this brings back some bad memories, BTW Grape Nehi mixes well with the old keister-plaster, maybe it was a Navy thing...... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html#comment-58238 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html#comment-58238 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:22:03 -0600 Considering that Bill knows what kind of headaches I get, and at what point I come to a full and complete stop... DAMN. not to mention the "evacuation procedures" that follow the headache. *shudder* (the BAD kind of shudder) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html#comment-58213 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/tins_except_for.html#comment-58213 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:34:51 -0600