I have very little sympathy for inmates having to live in tents in the desert. During the first Gulf War I lived in tent city in Oman for 9 months. Although, being Air Force, the tents were air conditioned most of the time.
Ops33, Another service member who slept in a tent! Thank you for your service to our country, SIR!
Know what your talking about.I spent a year living
in sand-bagged bunkers,tents and what we called hooches,
a plywood chicken house as I called it then
I wish there were ten thousand Sheriff Arapios in the USA
I slept in a tent in winter & in summer in the Army off & on for 20-yrs. Then became a Boy Scout Leader & like the youth slept in a tent in summer & winter for another 20-yrs.
” During the first Gulf War I lived in tent city in Oman for 9 months.”
Thanks for your service.
When American troops took Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa in 1945, there were no tents, hot meals or breaks for beer. Some of the soldiers and Marines fought for 30 straight days before being relieved - 30 days - night and day - of Banzai attacks, mortar and artillery bombardment and the enemy throwing grenades and hitting you with rifle and machinegun fire from the high ground.
Entire American platoons and companies were wiped out trying to take Sugar Loaf.
It’s one of the least known but also the one of the most brutal battles of WW II.
No criminal should complain about the tents at Sheriff Joe’s easy-living camps.
There’s still a handful of these Marines and soldiers alive from the Okinawa Sugar Loaf battle, and it would be instructive if the inmates were to learn about these men.
Anyway, I’m just re-telling a story that popped into my head.
Semper Fi, FRiend.