That is the way it was done in the Marine Corps. 55 gal. drums were cut in half and placed under the outhouses. There were access doors to the drums in the back and they were pulled out and a little kerosene added and burned. This was a detail you did not want to be on. Usually you were serving out some form of discipline if you found yourself on the S**t Detail! LOL
That is the way it was done in the Marine Corps. 55 gal. drums were cut in half and placed under the outhouses. There were access doors to the drums in the back and they were pulled out and a little kerosene added and burned. This was a detail you did not want to be on. Usually you were serving out some form of discipline if you found yourself on the S**t Detail! LOL
38 years ago and i still remember the smell. The smell around FOB Bastogne was bad enough with out it.
Burning Sh*t was definitely a motivation enhancer among my Army Guys, and then a scrape and dump at the land fill.
My dad was in Vietnam too.
The first time I ever heard that that was the way waste was disposed of in the Army, I was 21.
On my 21st birthday, I had to work 2nd shift at a CNC programming job I was doing in college. I pissed and moaned about it because of course, I wanted to go out drinking.
Well, he proceeded to tell me on HIS 21st birthday, he got in trouble for something over there. His punishment was being assigned to burn s**t for HOURS that night.
I shut up about my birthday after that. :)
I’m guessing the picky neighbors would not like that solution a whole lot either. My hubby has also been around burning human waste in the military and he said the smell is “indescribable” LOL- but he also said “you do get used to it and learn to ignore it” but I am not so sure the complaining neighbors would want to get used to it.
My sympathies are with the Amish, they have been in the same place, living the same way for many years- now newcomers to the community want to force changes on them. We have the same type of people move in here- they “love” the country and want to live the “country life” and then what they really want is for the folks already living there to change their ways of doing things so they are not annoyed by animal smells, etc. Culture clash.