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eb in oregon		#101	[-]
Posts: 983 (08/23/09 10:09 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Yes MD, it is the Ziggarut of UR, and it is pretty big. 132 today, a nice cool day. And it's Sunday, I started early, so I knocked off around 1600 hrs. Couldn't work anyway, the heat killed the air conditioners in the building with the internet servers, so they shut it down so they wouldn't cook "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776
Carl Gustav		#102	[-]
Posts: 3465 (08/23/09 10:12 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Eric, how can anyone survive in 132 degree heat?! That's about 62 degrees too warm for me and would make Vietnam feel like the arctic. Carl
Mountain Doctor		#103	[-]
Posts: 3729 (08/23/09 10:26 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	132 today. My faith and Bill's rules prevent me from using the correct language to express my amazement at what a lousy temparature that is.
eb in oregon		#104	[-]
Posts: 985 (08/24/09 11:20 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Every day I go out to check the CET's (convoy escort trucks), there are usually 18 trucks, 6 per CET (platoon), 3 different CET's. Unless of course they cancel one (usually because of sand storm conditions, the MEDVAC helicopters can't fly, so nobody moves) or they stick in another for giggles and grins. I'm usually out there from 1200 to 1500 checking, briefing, doing what needs to be done. Today the internet has been down again most of the day, they've been struggling to replace the air conditioners in the aforementioned building. By the time I get back in I'm usually soaked to the skin, my blouse pretty wet. My "office" is about 75 or so, today I turned it down to try to get it up to a mild 85 or 90 as I've been freezing my butt off. Yesterday I took my blouse off to try and let it dry somewhat, and when I put it back on 15 minutes later I though I'd grabbed it out of a freezer instead off the back of my chair. The heat is very oppressive, people literally pound water by the quart. The standard is a quart and a half per hour, but we usually drink more and even then we, at least I, don't have to, er, ah, tinkle, ya, tinkle more than three or four a day. Supposed to be more, but I can't seem to drink enough. It occurs to me that this information is "TMI," but I'm to tired to change it. Later, eb "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776
Mountain Doctor		#105	[-]
Posts: 3735 (08/24/09 01:59 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Kinda like Key West in July without the bikinis.
zeebill		#106	[-]
Posts: 3701 (08/24/09 06:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Most anybody I know would fry at 132 in a bikini Doc! Bill
FLAPJACKHAPPY		#107	[-]
Posts: 231 (08/24/09 11:09 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	132 degrees I would say fry and quite possibly burst into flames... How can you do anything but find shade and drink , drink, drink... How do you get acclimated to that hot.. WOW.. what is the nighttime temp ?? I'm surpised a man can tinkle you think a person would just sweat it all out. EB do they warn you guys not to drink too much if you drink too much you ccan over hydrate and run into problems that way. Later..
eb in oregon		#108	[-]
Posts: 986 (08/25/09 12:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	It would be nice to just sit in the shade and have a scotch on the rocks with a twist, but the shade is hot too, and we have no booze or beer. General order #1. In our "CHU's" (inside 18/20 foot "T" wall to shield from incoming) it drops down to the low hundreds in the early evening, the morning is the best time when it's down to a nice cool 90 or so. I'm kind of guessing about that as I don't have a thermometer with me, but after 130's, 90 is quite cool. We all sweat like the dickens, especially those first few moments when we step indoors, however we seem to dry out pretty fast outside. Except for people like me that seem to sweat it out as fast as we drink, we are usually soaking wet. I have to change uniforms every two to three days as the salt gets pretty crusty about day three. Fortunately we have a free laundry service that has a two day turn-a-round so we always have clean uniforms. And yes Jason, we do get warned, and warn each, outer about "water poisoning". It is a factor here. And I'm looking forward to getting that "blue horror" from you when I get back. eb "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776
Mountain Doctor		#109	[-]
Posts: 3741 (08/25/09 12:50 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm guessing it must have been a far milder climate in Abraham's time. Who the heck would want to fight over such God forsaken terrain anyway?
eb in oregon		#110	[-]
Posts: 987 (08/25/09 01:05 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	MD, It is depressing to look over this land and think it was once a fertile plain, covered with wheat, corn, and other crops. Over worked, de-forested and generally used up. My fear is that we do this to the rest of our world. Nobody can really think that it always looked like this, right? But Dorthy said it best, "there's no place like home." "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776
eagle7		#111	[-]
Posts: 4051 (08/25/09 03:10 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	In the time of Abraham the the climate of Middle East was more temperate. Iraq was part of what historians refer to as the Fertile Crescent, where agriculture began. Overgrazing by sheep and goats and deforestation along the Mediterranean Sea (the cedars of Lebanon in the Old Testament) had a profound effect on the climate. Like the coast of North Africa, southern Italy and Sicily, the Middle East was a prime grain producing area in the ancient world, but chopping down all the trees for lumber to build the Phoenician, Carthaginian, and Roman fleets affected the annual rainfall rates.
eb in oregon		#112	[-]
Posts: 989 (08/27/09 11:56 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	chopping down all the trees for lumber to build the Phoenician, Carthaginian, and Roman fleets affected the annual rainfall rates. Yes, that took a lot of trees. You can always tell when things are starting to "wind down" as the "micky mouse" horse dung starts. It is now VERY IMPORTANT that we wear our reflective belts after 1800 (it's still very light outside) as it makes us easier to see so we don't get run over when crossing the street, or by some errant vehicle in a parking lot. We are also required to wear "eye pro" (ballistic glasses) all the time as we don't want somebody to get an eye injury from the sand flying all over because of the wind. I'm glad that I'm almost done with this. I'm really getting tired of the foolishness. "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776
eagle7		#113	[-]
Posts: 4061 (08/27/09 01:56 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	It's nice to know that even in wartime officers without real jobs have the time to micro-manage trival issues. I guess nothing has changed since 2004.
Ed Novak		#114	[-]
Posts: 2085 (08/27/09 07:33 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Reminds me a bit of VN, post TET on Tan Son Nhut, '68 when, after all the hoorah had wound down, the USAF decided that its REMFs needed helmets, issued them without liners but required their wear at all times "out doors". Squatting on the tarmac, looking up into the ELRAC bays to R&R sensor packages with that pot on my nose or on my neck was just delightful. "Peter principle" thing has been around for thousands of years. NRA Endowment member LECS #2
eb in oregon		#115	[-]
Posts: 1017 (10/04/09 12:22 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well, the last month has been pretty much like Bill Murry's "Groundhog Day." Get up at 0530, shave and shower, put on the uniform, eat, got to "work." I spend several hours updating records and looking at data about missions and such. Go out and spend several hours verifying the signal of the vehicles going on mission that day, and then update records, create operating procedures and SOP updates, and "clock out" after 1800. Do this seven days a week, same old, same old. I spent the first two weeks of last month verifying the "load" (program) of our "Warlocks" then as soon as that was done a new one was released two weeks later. So i've been crawling in and out of our vehicles re-programming the equipment since the 18th of Sept. I've got until the 14th of OCT, but I'm about 80% done now, thank goodness, I'm bushed. I made a trip "up North" on the 15th, and got back the morning of the 17th. It was un-eventful, thank goodness. I will say though that the new MRAP's ride pretty hard. Tylenol is my friend. I'll be making another about the 15/16th of this month, then on the 29th I fly out to meet my wife in New Zealand where we will spend 14 days. Man, I'm looking forward to seeing her, I'm here to tell ya. About the time I get back, I'll get to make another trip "up North." Things have been pretty good, I can't complain. Just a note to say hello. eb "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776
Ed Novak		#116	[-]
Posts: 2138 (10/04/09 12:30 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Good to hear from you again, Eric. Stay safe and enjoy that "honeymoon"! NRA Endowment member LECS #2
Aubullet		#117	[-]
Posts: 1322 (10/04/09 12:32 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Hope all your trips "up North" go as well as the first one, and hope tylenol continues to be the only "friend" you need from these excursions. Thanks for putting up with the BS and "BEING THERE" for all of us! Hurry home, we miss you!!!
Carl Gustav		#118	[-]
Posts: 3505 (10/04/09 07:24 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Eric, good to hear from you. I made it to Australia on my R & R from Vietnam. I think NZ will be even better. Our son in law is in the Green Zone in Baghdad and the rocket/mortar attack last week was very, very close. He got his men into a bunker quickly. You just never know. Thanks for all your work and putting up with the mickey mouse stuff. Carl
eb in oregon		#119	[-]
Posts: 1023 (10/17/09 01:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well, it's been a long day, 0700 to 1900. We got 17 new "Caimans" today to replace some (not nearly all) of our worn out vehicles. Sort of weird to look at 17 million dollars "on the hoof" like that. Spent a good part of the day checking out their systems and antennas, figuring out the work that needs to be done before they are all mission capable, and started on work orders for what needs to be fixed/repaired. It's wearing to have to climb up on the roof of those things, but at least I got it done. These rigs are all relatively new, but they've been sitting in some yard for awhile, so they'll need some work before we can send them out. I've finally got some help trained up, so I'll be able to focus on some other things that I need to spend more time on. Such as a Battalion SOP, down loading more event logs, giving classes to "Joe," learning even more about my job, etc, etc. And then there's some training I've supposed to have attended that I blew off as some things are a little more important. I'm telling ya, these 12 hour or more days are starting to knock my edge off. Anyway, I've got leave coming in two weeks. Zowie! eb "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin, July 4 1776
mkgr22		#120	[-]
Posts: 215 (10/17/09 08:34 PM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Enjoy your trip to New Zealand- I'm sure you will. I suppose it will be early spring when you get there. Quite a relief from that dang desert.

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