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To: IYAS9YAS

I would probably agree...although I will say, when I was in the USN and went to Yuma on a detachment for Air Combat Maneuvering training for our squadron at the end of July, it got as high as 115 degrees on at least one or two of the days, and I am sure, to people who live out there, they are used to it, but when the back of that C-130 opened up, it felt just like opening an oven...

But it was the dry heat, and...it didn’t feel bad at all.

Until I had been out in it for a while. Then I thought I understood those guys in the desert who would look up at the burning sun, with no water in sight!


54 posted on 07/18/2023 1:32:21 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rlmorel

I hear ya. I used to fly in the back of the EC-130H at Davis-Monthan (I was enlisted electronic weapons systems crew). The only thing I hated was they’d turn off the A/C in the back of the C-130 when they wanted to do touch and go or combat landing practice. The A/C was needed for the electronics in the back, but they turned all that off when taking off and landing, so the A/C got shut off as well. 105° outside, 115° in the tin can inside. Sometimes the aircrew was real nice and dropped us off first.


56 posted on 07/18/2023 2:00:27 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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