Sunday, July 31, 2011

OK, it's not so hot

My first thought was wow:


But then I remembered there are hotter places:


I can wear shorts and a T-shirt when it gets hot.  I spend my days in air conditioning - FOB Borepatch, the car, the office.  I can head over to the pool for a dip if it gets too oppressive.  I can crack a frosty bottle of hoppy goodness.

Yeah, it's not so hot here after all.

Keep our men and women in uniform in your thoughts and prayers. 

Come home safe, and soon, and victorious.  Some of us appreciate the sacrifice  you - and your families - are making.

12 comments:

Jester said...

The kicker of that weather strip you put up there? Here are -Hotter- parts of Iraq than relatively balmy Baghdad. The southern port area around Basra comes to mind. 120s and 130s are constant this time of the day. And if you really are unlucky the wind will shift from the gulf and bring in humidity on top of it all.

Guffaw in AZ said...

Yep. Hot here, too (in Phoenix). But, it's not Baghdad.
Thanks for disturbing the comfortable.

SiGraybeard said...

Yeah, I stand corrected. This isn't Crematoria, Iraq is. And I can wear cargo shorts and a light shirt of some kind.

West, By God said...

I can vouch for that. Add a nice shamal blowing in from the desert (not as bad as the humidity down around Basra and Umm Qasr), and you have yourself a dang blast furnace. Why anyone chooses to live here is beyond me.

Our AC has been broken for the last 3 days too. I work in a metal roof trailer with no insulation... I'm surprised our computers didn't melt.

Baghdad sucks. Can't wait to get back home to Florida, and the glorious 90 degree weather.

Murphy's Law said...

YOu'd hardly know that we even have troops in Iraq any more since Obama became President and the media quit mentioning them. Remember how when Bush was in charge, our troops overseas were all we heard about, and most of it was negative? But now that the Rainbow Farter is running the wars, the media pretends that we don't even have troops or operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, or Yemen.

Borepatch said...

Greg, what I said applies double for you. Thanks for doing what a lot of folks won't (or like me, can't, at least at my age) do.

Anonymous said...

Still is hard to watch some of these 200 year old trees looking brown. I've seen longer droughts here in the Austin area, but this one seems hotter, somehow. Lake Travis is pretty low, but it's been lower. All those islands visible from the dam go away when the Fall monsoons start. (At least let's hope they start.. a little early.) I sure hope all our trees survive up here in Hill Country.

Been up to Eagle Peak range yet? Not a bad place, really. They're just a bit West of us.

For some reason, I thought you'd moved into the Dallas area, but here you are Deep in the Heart...

Fair Winds,

Cap'n Jan

Old NFO said...

BP, don't forget they are wearing an average of 54lbs of gear too... And it DOES get up to 130+ with wind and humidity, it's pretty hard to function.

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile, the Decider, who sent them there for no reason but perhaps hubris, relaxes in taxpayer-funded comfort, riding his mountain bike, thinking back on a 'career' consisting of... zero achievement.

ProudHillbilly said...

Someone I know said during her Iraq tour her full kit weighed 125 lbs and they spent days at a time in it. I asked if she even weighed that much herself. Our soldiers are incredible.

Anonymous said...

Just remember that we treat prisoners in prison far more humanely than we have ever treated our volunteer military.

Firehand said...

Son's first deployment, he weighed what he had on every time went out; not counting helmet and rifle it was just shy of 90 pounds. In 120 degrees and high humidity in the area. Yeek. And that was the BASIC stuff, depending on the mission sometimes had a lot more.

Friend said that shortly before he left Iraq a couple of years ago they were interrogating a bad guy and he finally said he'd talk if they gave him one of the Cool Pills.
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Turned out, he and a bunch of others were convinced we had some kind of pill the troops took that allowed them to stay cool while wearing/carrying all that stuff.