After sweating all evening, I'm smelling pretty bad.

[LeftyFingerPop]

I'm too tired to take a shower, and too smelly to crawl into bed.

Guess I'll just have to sleep standing up in the garage again like a fucking idiot.

[Kali]

1. oh I hate when that happens

that's why I keep extra bungy cords out on the porch

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. You know...

that's a good idea. :D

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. 101st Airborne field exercise...

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...an endurance test of some sort. February, wavering over and under the
freezing point, fairly steady but wery light precipitation, mostly rain but
occasionally turning to snow.
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They kept us moving for 4 or 5 days. When we stopped, we weren't told for
how long, and we weren't allowed to unpack any gear as we had to be ready
to move again without hesitation. We had ponchos (light and wearable tarps,
not the Mexican blanket-type serapes), but nothing else in the way of
warm-weather gear.
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The final night (although we weren't TOLD it would be the final night), we
stopped about 2 AM "for a while". I lay down, cold -- so cold and completely
soaked -- and fell asleep instantly, but woke within minutes shaking VIOLENTLY
from laying directly on the cold ground. Teeth chattering so hard I'm surprised
they didn't shatter... and I'm certain I would have given away our position with
the noise. Stood up and walked around to "warm up" and stop shaking so much.
SO tired, I would fall in my tracks and sleep instantly, only to wake shaking
within minutes and start the process over. Finally found a tree with some low
branches at the right height, and slept standing up for blissful HOURS with a
branch under each armpit to keep me off that cold ground.
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I literally learned to sleep ANYWHERE at ANY TIME in the Army.
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One of the VERY good things the service did for me was to teach me that I (and
virtually EVERYONE) was (and AM) capable of far, far, FAR more than I knew... or
even suspected.
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