“Summer 1983, Fort Sill, OK, even the Army forced us take water breaks.”
I was told the Army forced men and women to do this. Even more so when they were over in Iraq and Kuwait. I heard they were ordered to drink water even when they said “I’m not thirsty”. They had to drink like so many gallons a day.
I worked construction in southern Arizona in the summer time. I would drink about a gallon and half in a day. The sweat would evaporate before it got in to my clothes, but at the end of the day, I had a salt ring on my boots.