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We have all done them! Little things done with limited items you have on hand in the field to make life a little easier.
Do you have a favorite field hack that you do in the field to make your situation feel a little more like home or make your job a little easier to accomplish that isn't in any field manual?
Do you have a favorite field hack that you do in the field to make your situation feel a little more like home or make your job a little easier to accomplish that isn't in any field manual?
Military Life
Deployment
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I've used generators to sit my food on just to get it semi hot for dinner while in Africa. Baby wipes for pretty much anything from hygiene to cleaning weapons. QTips for the same reason. Moleskin is a must! Never know when someone will need it!
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Working at night off the main base at DaNang to have a hot meal we would use an empty can with vent holes in it, put a dime size ball of semi dry napalm under it from where there had been a leaker. Light it and place C-ration etc. on top and heat. Worked great and we did not have to make the drive 2 more times in the dark.
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Well i have many but my favorite is the pancho, silver bullet coffee pot, eye wash station, 5 gallon water jug, air house to hemtt glad hand = tada hot water, pressurized shower in any field environment
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We used to take our mre pouches and tape (100mph tape) them to the engine/transfer case in the 113 when in Yakima firing center during winter. Drive around do what needs to be done..lunch was always warm.
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Used aluminum foil from a gum wrapper to fix a diesel heater on an M60A3 tank to get some heat during a winter exercise. Those things were like a freezer without heat in a German winter!
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Best ever ive seen is turning a broken cot into a hammock with some 550 cord.......best thing ever invented 550 cord......
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MRE heater in BFV for coffee. Driver bought a coffe press and jacked coffee from chow hall. Oh and keeping those Otis spunkmeyer muffins near engine to keep warm. Made Iraq almost bearable.
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Something we did in my 1st deployment to Iraq was make our own toilette chair. We took your standard metal folding chair and cut out the middle of the seat in a circle, we then wrapped the remaining edge of the seat with duct tape. We carried this chair with us all the way to Mosul and finally trashed it when we made some burn basin outhouses. Our im-bed actually did a story on it but it was never published.
As most of you know during the initial push, ( no pun intended) we were either using straddle trenches or c-truck would dig a hole, you'd go, and then throw some dirt over it until it got well used. The chair was awesome.
As most of you know during the initial push, ( no pun intended) we were either using straddle trenches or c-truck would dig a hole, you'd go, and then throw some dirt over it until it got well used. The chair was awesome.
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Did the exact same thing using a standard army cot, even had handles for those just in case situations where it got a lil strenuous.
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SSG Gregg Mouritzen
When I was in Japan doing cold weather training, we cut a privy into the snow and made a toilet out of an MRE box and a trash bag. we cut a bench and the cut a slot into it, that just fit the box. Sure was easier than trying to straddle in deep snow and aim for the bag. a lot cleaner too.
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I carried around little shakers of garlic powder, and seasoning salt. MREs tasted s bit better.
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LTC Jason Mackay
Before the mini hot sauce bottles were in the MRE , people used to take an ammo pouch, cut out the nylon separators and put a full bottle of Tabasco and one or two other condiments in there
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