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   billyg83440 | Apr 04, 2003 10:07pm | #1

   Boy, those bring back some memories. Though never in wartime.

   You get so tired you can fall asleep anywhere instantly. I usually take at least a half hour of tossing and turning. Can't sleep in a cor or bus. On extended ops, I'd climb in the APC lean my head back and instantly be asleep while we bounced acrost the desert. Takes a week with lots of sleep to feel normal again.

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   CapnMac | Apr 04, 2003 10:09pm | #2

   Hope the Brits in #1 don't get a "Gas!  Gas!  Gas!" wakeup call (mask & hood on while barefoot makes for great stories . . . later, much later, that is).

   That mask carrier on your hip is a lousy pillow, too.

   I saw the other day on the Weather Channel that it is only getting down to about 70° at night, too.

   Warm bed not necessarily a comfort "in theater," either, not when it's under the flight deck of one of the carriers.

   To quote the late padre:  "Let us never lose sight of the Price that has been Paid, nor of those who paid that Price, or those who continue to pay the Price; that we might enjoy our Blessings and Liberty today."

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   BossHog | Apr 04, 2003 10:20pm | #3

   Maybe the thread should have been titled "For anyone sleeping in a nice COOL bed."

   I know them gas masks don't meak great pillows. But they'll do in a pinch.

   I remember one time they kept me up all day working on something back when I was in the Army. (While we were out in the field) Then I was on guard duty all night. Then I worked through the next day. Then that night they announced we had to pack up and move.

   When I stopped my truck and shut it off late that night, I had my gas mask lying on the seat beside me. I flopped over with my head on top of it. I didn't wake up until daylight the next morning.If you think this car is dirty, then you should spend a night with the driver!

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   Mongo | Apr 04, 2003 10:47pm | #4

   No wonder the troops are "falliing behind The Plan."

   Everyone's either sleeping or sitting around making mud pies.

   Those pics make Tent City look like the Ritz.

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   xMikeSmith | Apr 05, 2003 04:53am | #5

   #4 reminds me of "All Quiet on the Western Front "...

   and #1.. was not my version of the army.. oh well.... they have seen the elephant

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