MSgt Private RallyPoint Member 44352 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I'm prepping my kit for the Phase 2 of our Operational Readiness Exercise that starts tonight, and I started thinking about all the times I'd left water in my canteen between exercises.<div><br></div><div>Since I use different water sources than my canteen most of the time, and only use my canteen when in MOPP gear, it can stay in there for quite some time.  I think 3-4 months is the longest I've gone, and you can imagine what that tasted like coming through my gas mask drinking tube!</div><div><br></div><div>So what's the longest you've left water in your canteen and drank it? </div> 2014-01-26T01:55:04-05:00 MSgt Private RallyPoint Member 44352

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I'm prepping my kit for the Phase 2 of our Operational Readiness Exercise that starts tonight, and I started thinking about all the times I'd left water in my canteen between exercises.<div><br></div><div>Since I use different water sources than my canteen most of the time, and only use my canteen when in MOPP gear, it can stay in there for quite some time.  I think 3-4 months is the longest I've gone, and you can imagine what that tasted like coming through my gas mask drinking tube!</div><div><br></div><div>So what's the longest you've left water in your canteen and drank it? </div>

2014-01-26T01:55:04-05:00 2014-01-26T01:55:04-05:00 SFC James Baber 44962

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><p>This going to sound a little far-fetched, but during Desert Shield/Desert Storm I had lost or at least thought I had lost my canteen, but near the end of our 11 1/2 months in country from Sep '90 - Aug '91, I found it buried in the bottom of my packed duffle that pretty much stayed in our conex for the tour, and I was having to clean everything to be inspected before we could be cleared to leave country, I actually thought I would give it a taste to see if those tablets we had dropped in almost a year ago had actually worked for the purification of the water, the canteen was lighter than when I packed it, I assumed evaporation from time and heat. I took a drink and thought my throat was going to burst open from the disgusting solution I had just put into it, it tasted as if I had drank a combination or burnt motor oil and fermented wine, and through in some salt on top of it.</p><p><br></p><p>Lets just say I had a good dose of diarrhea for about a week after that little sig and swallow, never again or since did I ever consider doing anything like that in the rest of my career or since.</p><p><br></p><p>Liquid death is the best way I describe the taste after all these years.</p>

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