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Title: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: Zacherof on February 21, 2016, 06:01:04 PM
On day 7 of a field training excercise. It sucks and I love every moment of it! ( except the lack of sleep and no bed haha)
Embrace the suck! :banana: :banana:
Should be back to killing red guys by Friday hopefully :D
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: hgtonyvi on February 22, 2016, 01:29:40 AM
u didn't shower for 7 days?
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: EskimoJoe on February 22, 2016, 07:14:06 AM
If you have your phone in the field, you're not really in the field. Baby wipes, baby wipes, baby wipes.

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Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: rabbidrabbit on February 22, 2016, 08:31:58 AM
Meh... post up once you pass the 30 day mark.  Must not be infantry.   :neener:
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: FLOOB on February 22, 2016, 09:27:52 AM
Meh... post up once you pass the 30 day mark.  Must not be infantry.   :neener:
I try not to go more than a week without showering. But that's more of a guideline then a rule.
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: caldera on February 22, 2016, 09:52:41 AM
Does vicarious enjoyment count?


(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/shower.png~original) (http://s343.photobucket.com/user/caldera_08/media/shower.png.html)
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: GScholz on February 22, 2016, 10:04:40 AM
Caldera, you have a very beautiful body.  :aok
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: rabbidrabbit on February 22, 2016, 11:05:24 AM
I try not to go more than a week without showering. But that's more of a guideline then a rule.

Sometimes, in some lines of work, you just don't have the option.
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: FLOOB on February 22, 2016, 11:25:30 AM
For reals. But I was talking in general.
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: JunkyII on February 22, 2016, 12:17:58 PM
Wheels up at 2100, wheels down 2200, approach March for 10 hours, Company receives contact by 40+ OPFor...proceed to dig in and send out R&S patrols....10 days later....we got a "change of mission" to move 18k cross country at night to hit an objective that held up an entire Australian Army Infantry Battalion.....that was the first 11 days of 28 in the field...no showers, no phones, MREs and your shelter was the grave you built behind your defensive position.

Infantry vs all other jobs....Cats and Dogs. In before the POGs show up saying they are "pretty much Infantry"
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: rabbidrabbit on February 22, 2016, 01:53:42 PM
For reals. But I was talking in general.
Oh, ya... other than that I'm hitting the showers once a week whether I need it or not!
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: caldera on February 22, 2016, 05:55:00 PM
Caldera, you have a very beautiful body.  :aok

Thanks!   :cheers:
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: DaveBB on February 22, 2016, 06:35:51 PM
Wheels up at 2100, wheels down 2200, approach March for 10 hours, Company receives contact by 40+ OPFor...proceed to dig in and send out R&S patrols....10 days later....we got a "change of mission" to move 18k cross country at night to hit an objective that held up an entire Australian Army Infantry Battalion.....that was the first 11 days of 28 in the field...no showers, no phones, MREs and your shelter was the grave you built behind your defensive position.

Infantry vs all other jobs....Cats and Dogs. In before the POGs show up saying they are "pretty much Infantry"

Is this a conventional war scenario or an asymmetrical war scenario?
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: rabbidrabbit on February 22, 2016, 07:22:16 PM
Is this a conventional war scenario or an asymmetrical war scenario?

asymmetrical shower scenario
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: Zacherof on February 26, 2016, 02:29:47 PM
Deffinatly not infantry. Now on day 12. 30 days without a shower I think I'd loose my toejam or I'd just accept it and be like screw it. And I'd really smell......and I'm not killing red guys tonight. Damn baby doesn't understand my addiction :furious
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: Serenity on February 26, 2016, 03:48:44 PM
Wheels up at 2100, wheels down 2200, approach March for 10 hours, Company receives contact by 40+ OPFor...proceed to dig in and send out R&S patrols....10 days later....we got a "change of mission" to move 18k cross country at night to hit an objective that held up an entire Australian Army Infantry Battalion.....that was the first 11 days of 28 in the field...no showers, no phones, MREs and your shelter was the grave you built behind your defensive position.

Infantry vs all other jobs....Cats and Dogs. In before the POGs show up saying they are "pretty much Infantry"

If I got more than 18 hours without a hot shower even duct tape won't stop my b****ing and moaning... When we lost hot water on the Green Bay in port I literally walked 45 minutes each way to go kick some kids out of their hotel room and steal their showers every day.
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: JunkyII on February 26, 2016, 04:50:00 PM
Is this a conventional war scenario or an asymmetrical war scenario?
more conventional training these days but the military learned a lot from the war. Seems like it's moving to a bit of a cross breed which should make it even more lethal.
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: DaveBB on February 26, 2016, 05:22:18 PM
Good, I am glad to hear that. 
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: GScholz on February 26, 2016, 09:18:35 PM
If I got more than 18 hours without a hot shower even duct tape won't stop my b****ing and moaning... When we lost hot water on the Green Bay in port I literally walked 45 minutes each way to go kick some kids out of their hotel room and steal their showers every day.

You're not exactly infantry material are you...  ;)
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: rabbidrabbit on February 27, 2016, 07:01:53 AM
Deffinatly not infantry. Now on day 12. 30 days without a shower I think I'd loose my toejam or I'd just accept it and be like screw it. And I'd really smell......and I'm not killing red guys tonight. Damn baby doesn't understand my addiction :furious

No showers isn't that bad.  It does suck but when you have other priorities it really does not come to mind.  In those situations you are glad to get any sleep, water food etc.  The sleep sucks pretty bad too.  Getting past no sleep is the toughest for the 20 hour-40 hr mark.  Your body really wants some after the first 20 something hours sleepless.  Once you get past the second day you kind of settle into a cycle of crashing and being full on alert.  The trick is managing the crashing part so you don't screw up when it can kill someone you were not intending to kill, like yourself and team members.  After the first couple days you do really have to pay attention to the decisions you and those around you are making too.  Your brain skips the whole, is this really a good idea after all part of the equation.  Your judgement and coordination gets on par with a drunk after a while.  The same goes for many days with sub hour per day sleep.  After a couple weeks of that, it takes a lot of self disciple to stay on mission.
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: Serenity on February 27, 2016, 08:12:51 AM
You're not exactly infantry material are you...  ;)

Heck no! I need my climate controlled cockpit, my mandatory 8 hours of sleep, and a hot shower at the end of the day!
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: USRanger on February 27, 2016, 12:44:00 PM
Infantry is for weenies!! :old:
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: guncrasher on February 27, 2016, 01:35:58 PM
when you get back, I'll give you a nice hot soapy shower  :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh


semp
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: Zacherof on February 27, 2016, 09:27:16 PM
Sleep is the biggest priority. When after 5 days of feeling like a looney tune things get wierd. But finally back to give all the red guys hell!!!! :banana: :joystick:
Title: Re: Hope y'all are enjoying showers
Post by: pipz on February 28, 2016, 08:31:51 AM
when you get back, I'll give you a nice hot soapy shower  :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh :uhoh
semp

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