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Peter
The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Late last month, I wrote about Kat Ainsworth Stevens . She's a friend and occasional member of the North Texas Troublemakers, and an a...
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Last one- true, but only 'til your body adjusts to the "new normal" :)
I can't speak of the current MREs, but the constipation problem with the early version was insufficient water intake. The originals were were low-to-no moisture (who else recalls dessicated pork pucks?), so you needed to drink more. Add in the general excessive sweating while deployed in the field. Once I made a point of drinking more water, constipation stopped being an issue.
First one ~ also true in the '60's and '70's. And you can add on throwing and stacking bales at haying time.
First one in the ‘50s - add picking tomatoes, cucumbers, on a truck farm at $0.65 an hour,for ten hour days. Last one in the early sixties, C-rations, the canned bread was known as “Old Buttplug”.
The third meme with the pipe flange cut out for the electrical line made me gasp in disbelief.
I don't know about MREs, but changing from shore to ship, or vice versa, always stopped you up for a few days.
--Tennessee Budd
Judging by the lack of clearance for the upper screw of the electrical joint, I suspect the pipeline was installed after the electrics. I'm not entirely positive of that order, though. I've seen lots of questionable work done over the years!
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