[ladtx]

"Of course it's summer in Bagdhad and that desert gets hot." Auuughh! It's hot at Ft. Benning, too! We send fols through basic training there in the summer do we not? I know it's not desert heat, but it's pretty dang blistering! And we have night fighters and bombers, infra-red for the ground troops for night ops, and air-conditioning. The heat issue is bullcrappus!

The difference being; that at Ft. Benning training can be (and is curtailed) if the "wet-bulb" temperature is too high. Besides there is a lot of shade under those Georgia pines. Ain't no shade in Iraq, unless it's under a burned out tank.

SCOUTS OUT!

[Frank_Discussion]

True enough, and thanks for the details. As I said, though, we have superior fighting abilities during the witching hours.

As for the burned out tanks, let's get some from Saddam. Start a cottage industry in the things.