My daddy (a three-war Marine) always said:
“Let’s YOU spend three weeks in the boonies with no toilet paper!”
/the actors in “Platoon” went through a three-week boot camp in the Phillipine jungles to get that look juuuuust right
Grandpa used to run the fireplace, full bore. Many was the time I'd go to visit him, and he'd be sitting next to a roaring fire, and the Air Conditioning in the house would be running, too, so that the rest of the family wouldn't get driven out of the house from the heat.
I asked him "Why", once. "Because I can, now." Enough said. :-)
"Platoon" was OK. Would have been better if it hadn't been done by Oliver Stone.