Anyone been to FT. Drum?

[VonMessa]

I'm partial to the giant cockroaches we had at Knox. Saw one get run over by an Abrams and not even break stride. Swear to gawd I did!

I believe every word

[druski85]

Treize I'm not doubting your uber-roaches, but I guess I have never seen any proof of this "roaches are impossible to kill" train of thought.  I whack them an (admittedly thick) sandal, and they splatter all over whatever they are on.  And I'm not not talking about small roaches -- these guys are nearly the size of my palm. 

Now nuclear fallout...yea maybe they can withstand that.  But not a good hard whack of the sandal. 

[VonMessa]

Treize I'm not doubting your uber-roaches, but I guess I have never seen any proof of this "roaches are impossible to kill" train of thought.  I whack them an (admittedly thick) sandal, and they splatter all over whatever they are on.  And I'm not not talking about small roaches -- these guys are nearly the size of my palm. 

Now nuclear fallout...yea maybe they can withstand that.  But not a good hard whack of the sandal. 

Roaches or Palmetto bugs?

Have you ever stuck around to see if they were really dead?   

Are they Ho Chi Min sandals?  They must be way more lethal than my jump boots.....

[Treize69]

I've yet to find a way to reliably kill a roach, aside from shooting them. Even fire doesn't work if they can scurry out of it before they bake (plus fire is not recommended in doors...). And I've found more glue traps with a trail of torn off roach-leg parts attached and no roach in sight than I ever want to think about. Little SOBs are darn near invincible.

[druski85]

Roaches or Palmetto bugs?   ERmmmmmm http://www.orkin.com/cockroaches/difference-between-a-cockroach-and-a-palmetto-bug


They are quite dead.  In my old apartment (where I had many of the suckers) I would smash em, (guts all about) wait a couple minutes, then pick em up and throw em in the toilet. 

The sandals look like this, more or less   Nice thick, heavy soles make for good bug smashin. 

[Halo46]

I was there when it still looked a lot like Camp Hood, left when they had started expanding more. Friggin cold as heck. Wooden barracks with coal stoves. Two weeks after I got there found myself standing a gate on mids in the back woods, up to my balls in snow and about 30 below with the wind, that was in May. Check out the German POW war graves, very cool piece of history.

[VonMessa]

Roaches or Palmetto bugs?   ERmmmmmm http://www.orkin.com/cockroaches/difference-between-a-cockroach-and-a-palmetto-bug


They are quite dead.  In my old apartment (where I had many of the suckers) I would smash em, (guts all about) wait a couple minutes, then pick em up and throw em in the toilet. 

The sandals look like this, more or less (Image removed from quote.)  Nice thick, heavy soles make for good bug smashin. 

There is a huge difference.  Up here in Philly (in the North) we call them cockroaches.  They are little, nasty and freak your woman out.

When I spent time down South, they called them Palmetto bugs.  They were about the size of your sandal and they moved your furniture in the barracks while you were gone.

 

[JunkyII]

If you flip roaches on their back they cant move, thats what we do for fun in korea