For our American Brothers...A topic that's a little on the lighter side

[Globesmasher]

Red 6 - that is an outstanding photograph.

I shall stop complaining immediately.

I remember being in the shacks at Fort Bragg back in '84 or thereabouts.  I recall 6 bright, shiny porcelain toilets lined up in a neat row with no doors, stalls, walls ... nothing ... and being absolutely mortified. I was onyl 20 at the time thinking "How am I going to take a dump on that??"

Then, living in Doha and Al Udeid with the USAF from 2001-2004 ... having to walk 1/2 mile from my tent to the ATCO trailer to go take a dump in a stall that was just used by 500 of my closest freinds on an American "chow tent" diet.

But nothing compares to your picture!!!
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Outstanding ....  you win!!  ... I'll stop whining now. ....  ;D

 

[BernDawg]

Red 6 that's awesome.  I'd have never thought of sandbags.  On ex in Suffield once  :warstory: we took a milk crate and made an appropriate shaped cut out in it and padded the edges with rags and gun tape.  Easy to use and keep clean just place it over the hole in the ground and carry-on.  Unfortunately I didn't take any pics but the terrain is still quite treeless.
The amount of technical information exchanged on the site never ceases to amaze me!

 

[Red 6]

Hey fellas: Yeah, the sand bags worked pretty well. We called them "ass bags" and emptied them out when we were getting ready to move. Then we'd refill them when we got wherever we were going to. A picture really is worth a thousand words! If you tried to explain to someone that you made a shitter out of sand bags, their reply would be, "You made a what outta what?"

 

[geo]

heh.... welcome to the brotherhood.... sisters welcome?

 

[Red 6]

My bust... I should have written, "guys & gals." I forget sometimes that in the Canadian Army, women serve in combat arms.  :warstory:

 

[geo]

Red... these days of 3 block war & all that bunk, front and REMF troops are pert much grouped together and Log wogs are side by side at the pointy end of the stick... so US male troops are feeling the same pain as the Female troops.

 

[Trip_Wire]

As a side note:

Rats!

They were a real problem in Korea! They were everywhere! Rat bites of soldiers, was a common occurance. They of course spread many diseases, one of which was hemorrhagic fever! A usual fatal disease that many troops died from.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-19782195.html

One of my re-accuring nightmares, is the sound of rats munching on the Chinese/North Korean dead in our wire. Especially in the winter, with snow on the ground. These slithering large well fed rats, sounded like a squad of 'chinks' moving around your position. They became used to eating humans too.

 

[geo]

Rats?
Bit of a heavy subject isn't it Tripwire?

 

[Trip_Wire]

Rats?
Bit of a heavy subject isn't it Tripwire?

Perhaps, as I said, it was and is for me even 'till this day! 

I'm missing what your point was? Could you explain what you were trying to tell me? "heavy subject," I don't really understand your point here or is there one? 

 

[geo]

heh... topic of the thread was "the lighter side" of life - and about 50% of the thread covers (or deosn't) the use of shower curtains in the various outhouses we have visited.....

Figured that a discussion on maneating rats is like a 180 degree turnaround....

But, hey, don't let me stop ya from talking about what's on your mind....

 

[BernDawg]

Hey the way I see it is that rats are a logical progression from crappers and such. Preach on brother.

 

[Red 6]

Did any of ya'll ever see that Willie & Joe cartoon from WW2 with the rat in it? Willie and Joe were sacked out in a barn or something and this big rat was sitting on their blanket. One of them was shining a flashlight on the rat and the other had his .45 pointing at it. Willie was saying something like, "Make sure you aim for the eyes. If you wound him, he's liable to charge." It was pretty funny.

 

[geo]

Matter of fact.... I DO remember those
My dad had a book of all the Willie & Joe sketches by Bill Mauldin...
classics in any war

 

[Danjanou]

Perhaps, as I said, it was and is for me even 'till this day! 

I'm missing what your point was? Could you explain what you were trying to tell me? "heavy subject," I don't really understand your point here or is there one?   

Hey wouldn't be the first thread on this site that has gone waay off tangent.

Tripwire this is a place to vent, among other things like remembering the good and bad. Feel free to do so, you've earned that right as far as I'm concerned and I'm sure others would agree.

 

[Trip_Wire]

heh... topic of the thread was "the lighter side" of life - and about 50% of the thread covers (or deosn't) the use of shower curtains in the various outhouses we have visited.....

Figured that a discussion on maneating rats is like a 180 degree turnaround....

But, hey, don't let me stop ya from talking about what's on your mind....

I think I brought up the rats, being in most of the 'outhouse' type latrines in Korea. When I though of that, it brought back other memories of the rats in Korea, during the war. Yes, they ate the dead; however, many live soldiers were nipped by them as well. The fever I mentioned killed many UN Troops, one a friend of mine. Quite often rat bites, were on the nose or face, since that was the only body parts exposed sleeping in the issue mountain sleeping bag.

I kept most of the issue candy bars (They issued six bars a week.) in my WW !! cargo pack (Canvas with rubberized interior, designed to be attached to the bottom of the regular back back.) One day, I noticed a hole in one corner. The rat or rats had chewed through the material. On checking the contents 30 or 40 chocolate bars all with one bite out of each bar. No, big loss, as they were so old they had turned white when issued. In the rear areas, we used them to give the Koreans for laundry, (Washed in the 'rice paddies, using rocks.)  tent houseboys, shoe shines, etc.

Talking about the Willie & Joe WW II rat cartoon, yes I saw it as well. Many time during the night, I felt the rats jumping on or running across my sleeping bag. Generally, I slept with my .45 Cocked and Locked (Not because of the rats.) in my hand during the night on the line; however, wouldn't risk shooting myself in the foot or starting a fire fight by shooting a rat.

I post a lot over on the ARRSE board and take a lot of heat from a few American hating Brits over there, so I might be just a little 'gunshy' from that experience.

 

[Trip_Wire]

Matter of fact.... I DO remember those
My dad had a book of all the Willie & Joe sketches by Bill Mauldin...
classics in any war

Yes, I agree 100%! I too have that book of cartoons!  ;D