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| Author: | ilikeTWTOSOIOAToW [ Sat Sep 17, 2016 11:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Do any of you serve in any Armed Forces? |
If so, then have you or other(s) experienced real life ammo explosion(s) or heat exhaustion or heat stroke because of increased heat? |
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| Author: | Shades of Grey [ Sat Sep 17, 2016 7:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do any of you serve in any Armed Forces? |
I served 20 years in the US Navy as a nuclear engineer. Most of my career was spent in the engineering spaces of aircraft carriers. The hottest I've ever seen on a thermometer down there was 160F; that was in the main feed booster pump flats aboard Big E, which was a notorious steam bath of a ship. On a Nimitz class, Feed Control Room temps in the Persian Gulf could easily hit 120F or even 130F. So yeah, I am very familiar with what heat can do to unprepared people. Conversely, I experienced -50F during an Arctic Circle crossing up by Norway; so cold that you can actually feel your life leaving your body. Needless to say, because of these experiences, I have different definitions and tolerances of "hot" and "cold" than most people. |
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| Author: | Medron Pryde [ Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do any of you serve in any Armed Forces? |
I was born in northern Minnesota...then grew up in Kansas and moved back to Minnesota as a (barely) adult. One year the winter hit -80 wind chill. Cars were snow banks. Actual temperatures were something like -40. I moved to Kansas that spring. That summer we hit 100 degrees every day for three months straight. At least one of those days it was 120. I remember because...that was an effective temperature change of 200 degrees in a few months. That's just sorta memorable... |
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| Author: | ilikeTWTOSOIOAToW [ Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do any of you serve in any Armed Forces? |
Shades of Grey, were you provided with protective clothing when encountering that 160 degrees F temperature? if not, then how did you survive that encounter? also, i heard that US Armed Forces is now beginning to get a space fleet and way more aerospace fighters and no more tanks and no more wet Navy battleships, so there can be adequate defense against hostile aggressors in space |
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| Author: | CavGunner [ Mon Nov 21, 2016 3:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Do any of you serve in any Armed Forces? |
iLike, if you are going to troll then please stop using half-measures. At present, you are little more than dreadfully boring. |
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