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If they really want to give people the experience of drinking water in the Desert they should do what the Army did and sit pallets of water bottles in the sun s
by phaus 6y ago
If they really want to give people the experience of drinking water in the Desert they should do what the Army did and sit pallets of water bottles in the sun so all the Soldiers could get a nice, plastic-flavored, scalding hot drink of bottled carcinogens.
- latchkey 6y agoI imagine that the risk of death from enemy fire was a bit higher up on their 'what will kill me' priority list.
- phaus 6y agoIt was Kuwait so there was no enemy fire. Actually, for most of the conflicts in US history there were more casualties due to illnesses and other health issues than enemy fire. IIRC the Gulf War might have been the first time that wasn't the case. I just think heated plastics causing cancer was just something they hadn't caught up with.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoNapoleon was generally thought of as the first time were violent casualties exceeded non-violent ones. At least until his march to Russia. In the US the Civil War in the 1860s was when violent casualties tended to exceed medical ones. Even then, disease was a big deal, even up to WW2 where malaria was a huge problem in the Pacific Theater.