[Frank_Discussion]

"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!

[Frank_Discussion]

fols = folks

[NeoCaveman]

The heat issue is bullcrappus!

Then let's go already. I'm thinking it's got to be the desert summer heat or the November elections that keep us from rolling right now.

[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!

[arthurus]

At 110-130 degrees I don't see how GIs in full battle gear can survive in that desert unless we have developed cooled battle suits or something.

[Argus]

The heat issue is bullcrappus!

It's the flip side of the dreaded "Afghan winter" we were supposed to worry about last year.

Seems to me that in WWII, the British and Rommel's Afrika Corps didn't suspend operations for the summer months, and fought at places like El Alamein (120 in the shade, anyone?) in July.

[okie01]

"The heat issue is bullcrappus!"

Just like "the brutal Afghan winter"...

[Straight Vermonter]

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!

But it does get awful hot in MOPP gear.