From: Yuke.RF@forces.gc.ca
Date: Mon Jul 19 2004 - 08:20:09 PDT
A friend of mine who was in the Lord Strathcona's Armoured Regiment tearing
up the soil of Germany in Leopard tanks went into great detail one day at
lunch about the toileting habits of armoured troops. Seems they had a supply
of plastic zip lock bags (jumbo sized) with them into which they deposited
processed ration packs. These bags were then tied to the exterior of the
tank to be disposed of later. Good idea except then you ran into something
and the bags (some days old) bust and spread their contents down the side of
the tank. If the wind was right you could smell the tanks long before you
hear them. He also mentioned "Deep Brown Sweat" it was a product of wearing
CBW suits for 3 days in a tank in summer.
Cheers Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, 9, July, 2004 07:58 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] Tea, Boiling Vessels and crumpets
At 7:34 PM +0930 7/9/04, Douglas Greville wrote:
>Ryan
>
>> I wonder when AFVs are going to get a pee tube
>> for recycling all that tea and coffee those crews
>> are starting to drink more and more....
>
>Well, until the US moved away from belly mounted escape hatches nobody
>was at all worried. Standard practice to pop the hatch and .......
Torsion bars removed that option.
>If not, I believe the drill was to fire a round in the general
>direction of Germany and use the empty brass as a private toilet
>(when in combat). I believe it is highly advisable to let the empty
>brass case cool before putting it anywhere near one's sensitive areas.
Does't work now with the nato spec ammo that uses
a very shallow brass baseplate...
>Now that firing a round in the general direction of Germany is no
>longer politically correct, and as the Abrams has consumable main gun
>rounds what do the crews do?
Yep...Good question. I'll have to ask my friend
that works on the strykers what they are looking
at...
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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