Posted on 01/02/2022 10:06:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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Your government grant money at work
I got another theory..
These underground “tubes” are actually quite common and act as arteries and veins, transporting lava about, helping to heat the surface.
When this flow is interrupted, it forms an aneurysm that eventually bursts (volcano)..
I probably drank from that same muddy water when we were left in the jungle for four days with one day’s rations. Eventually we made our way 35 miles away and we used the machatte that I was carrying to hack out an LZ for a single chopper to ferry our platoon out of the jungle. That happened during an earthquake in Guatemala in which all the Army assets were diverted to support. We all had sugar cane growing wild to chew on but otherwise we were drinking mud water from the jungle. Man we tough young paratroopers. The reason we went out was to chase Cuban soldiers that were in the country, illegally, and it wasn’t long before some dictator was shot down or crashed his plane.... We were given steaks at the mess hall but we couldn’t eat more than a few bites. All of us got seriously buzzed on two 6% beers after all that. Good times. Never forgot the black water mud and sucking the canteens thru the clothing and it clogging up like cig butts with nicotine.
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