BOHICA Blues Today: "Spicy Season"
Added 2024-10-25 16:00:11 +0000 UTCThis is exactly what happened to me, and it does seem to dovetail nicely with Army logic. I've been in Kovoso for about 10 days now and it is has been noticeably colder, wetter, and foggier-- nothing at all like the conditions I was preparing in at Ft. Bliss.
The absurdity came to me as I was sitting in a hot, stuffy, humid warehouse, trying on thick, oversized and heavily insulated Danner boots that were almost clown shoes in scope, and foofy mittens that made my hands look like bear paws. Meanwhile, the temperature was 92°F / 33.3°C.
When I thought back to my earliest cartoons about the insane reality that had me prepping for "desert warfare" in the Middle East in wintery Ft. McCoy, I felt like I had truly come full circle in my life.
Keeping the mystery in the relationship? Yeah, I never know what goofball idea is going to come next.
Comments
Hackworth's About Face has a bit where new recruits are receiving their initial infantry training before shipping out to Viet Nam . . . in snow.
Karl Gallagher
2024-10-25 21:31:26 +0000 UTC2003: Training at Ft. Bragg in January, deployed to Iraq in February. At no time did the temperatures in Iraq fall even close to those in NC in January. 2009: Train at Ft. Dix, again in January, literally single digits. Deployed to Kuwait and later Iraq, where temperatures never dropped anywhere close to single digits. 2011 was finally not-ridiculous, as we trained in Indiana in May to deploy to Afghanistan.
Chuck Sherman
2024-10-25 19:41:36 +0000 UTCOkay, keeping the mystery in the relationship answer is killing me xD
Lilith Iden
2024-10-25 16:04:14 +0000 UTC
