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[DoomRulz]

But is it due to humidity or not? Dry heat is more tolerable than when humidity is in abundance and makes you feel gross.

[Kimarhi]

54 C?  I call shenanigans.

It was the ground temp that day with our digital thermometer. 


I'm sure the humidity threw it off.  I think the official temp was 118, but when its like 70% humidity it'll burn you the fuk up. 

What's really weird is that if you go about forty miles away from the coast its just hot and when you get to Ethiopia its not bad at all. 

We also stopped by Kuwait where it was about 115 at 20:00.  At least in Djibouti when the sun goes down the temp isn't bad at all (in comparison to the daytime temp there never was a day I can remember that wasn't over 90)

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Dry heat is more tolerable than when humidity is in abundance and makes you feel gross.

Yeah, the human body uses evaporation to cool itself so your built-in air-conditioning works much better in dry heat since your sweat is constantly evaporating instead of just pooling on your skin.

I was in the Negev once with temperatures in the high 40's (°C). Drank about 2 liters of water every hour and never had to take a piss. 

[Kimarhi]

The water was so contaminated there they would have coolers full of bottled water for us to drink and every day they'd be empty by the end of the day.  These were dozens of coolers big enough to fit several people in and they'd all be about empty every day.

Then the workers went on strike and nobody did nothing because there was no water to drink.  The PAE guys would fill like four coolers fr the entire camp and that was it. 

Then they hired them all back like three days later.  Foolishness. 

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I can just imagine that the tap water in North-Eastern Africa would be hazardous to one's health. Most Gulf states usually seem to be fine since it's desalinated seawater in the taps even though it tastes shit.

The thing that I found is that you need to drink water constantly in those superhot and dry conditions. You need to time your drinking according to your watch. I've seen guys keel over who weren't even thirsty.

[Kimarhi]

In field artillery most brigades give you the chance to earn the red artillery cord to put on your dress blues.  You have to take it off if you transition from one brigade to another but it looks pretty flashy so most people go for it.  I was in Ethiopia at the time they went for it but the heat made it way more challenging than it would be if it was back in the states.

One of my buddies did it (who was already a heat casualty before we even left) and said that he was tired just standing in the sun in uniform during drill and ceremony.  They also had to do warrior task and drills, a pt test, and a ruck march.  He made it all the way through till the ruck march then his body started cramping up muscle group by muscle group. 

He was so pissed because he was like 200 yards away from the finish line. 

This fool never hydrates though.  You'll get onto him about drinking water and then look over during chow and he's drinking coke. 

[Crazy Rich]

I always drink water so I wouldn't have that problem.

But I remember when I was an army cadet in the 6 week summer Leadership course. It was graduation day, apparently one of the hottest days that summer and I was feeling special so I didn't put much thought behind eating chocolate pudding as a part of my breakfast. In the words of Ron Burgundy "Milk was a bad choice".

Once the battalion (1,200) was marched onto the concrete square under that blazing sun and we were just standing at attention I started feeling really crappy allover and my vision was going whacky. Then I took a knee like instructed for such circumstances when you feel like puking and was escorted off.

But after a few sips of water my pride urged me back onto the square to finish what I started. At first those watching me were reluctant to let me back on, but they saw the pride I had and the let me back on the square. Stood there some more and felt kinda crap still, but felt a little better once I started moving in the march pass and was being cheered on, then marching off the square. In the end it was worth getting back in there but I also learned a lesson from that dairy product combined with blazing heat over concrete.

[Rong]

lol aspie

[Cvalda]

Sniffing glue REPRESENT.

[Kimarhi]

lol hawaii

[Topazora]

 
yeah, California sounds about right

[Rong]

Why isnt anyone talking about florida hahah f**king mazda miata bhahahaha

[Gate]

Back shaving

[Rong]

http://io9.com/the-military-is-shutting-down-its-weather-controlling-1580112806

what's Jessie Ventura gon do now!!

[Aspie]

lol aspie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMNw_-yUm_0#