• dfc09@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m taking this opportunity to vent. I just got back from a year long deployment from a snowy, mountainous region. I’m geared for cold, used to the cold. Even at the hieght of summer there, it was like … 70°F. They decided to demobilize us in El Paso, TX!!! It’s murderously hot here every day, and our barracks don’t have AC!!! So after walking around all day in a head to toe uniform in Texas desert heat, I don’t even get the luxury of feeling cold, crisp air 😭😭😭

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like you need to be doing that venting in some air conditioning! I’m a cold weather guy myself, and if I could send you on a trip to a freezer for an afternoon I’d do it!

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      1 year ago

      It’s stories like this that make me glad to have joined the Air Force during peacetime. The closest I got to what you’re experiencing is walking from my car to the office.

      • dfc09@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yes, this deployment taught me I need to switch to the air force when my contract is up. I like being in the military, I’m just over being army infantry. I did the cool guy stuff! Get me a desk job!!

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        1 year ago

        I’ll never forget the HEATED TENTS in week 6 in BMT we were using in February. I thought being in the military was hardcore, and here I was sitting in a luxury tent. This was in the year 2000 pre-9/11, don’t know if they still have them.

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          1 year ago

          They didn’t have those when I went through basic in '98, but then again we only had two days of FTX and basic was 6 weeks long total.

          What they did have was arctic sleeping bags. You don’t need a heated tent with one of those things. Sleep more than 30 minutes (which was about how long they gave us that night) and you’re sweating, even in the cold.