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To: nickcarraway

In heat like that your perspiration evaporates instantly so you don’t know you are losing hydration. One minute you feel fine the next you’re out like a light on the ground.

Saw a fair amount of it during two sessions of desert warfare training in 29 Palms.


11 posted on 09/08/2020 5:29:43 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: 2111USMC

I trained at 29 Palms/Ft. Irwin years ago in 113 degree heat. We followed the Israel prescription of downing a quart of water every half hour. Even if I didn’t feel thirsty, that quart went down easily. We kept the heat strokes down to a minimum.


60 posted on 09/08/2020 7:10:12 PM PDT by Thommas
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To: 2111USMC

First trip to the stumps I and my bros had stayed at the E-club until closing the night before.

I was still throwing up at morning formation.

Got off the bus at the stumps with a hangover so bad I wanted to die.

My First Shirt was laughing his ass off at me, told me we were forming up to step off for a special 10 mile forced march in my honor. That’d fix the hangover real good.

I was not a popular person during that particular training deployment.

Thank the Good Lord I was in the infantry and there’s always someone in that crowd doing something stupid so my stupidity was quickly over written by someone elses.


69 posted on 09/08/2020 8:37:46 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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