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I lived in northern Japan for 4 years... of the earthquakes that I could actually feel, there was an average of 5 a week. That works out to about 1,040 earthquakes I experienced. Luckily, just one big one that had me praying. So living in San Diego wouldn't scare me. Much. hahaha. Besides, there are much worse ways to die than to ride a chunk of land into the Pacific Ocean.

 

lock that biotch in 4-lo, ya might be able to drive out??

<~~2 years in Camp Zama Japan

 

hahaha... should've bought an Off Road.

Ah, you missed out on 200 plus inches of snow every winter down there in balmy Camp Zama. One year at Misawa we had over 300 inches.

 

Working in the Engineroom of ships making superheated steam at 975 degrees @1200 PSI it was normally 120 in the shade. After spending 12-16 hours down in the pit 7 days a week I would pour the sweat out of my boots into the bilges before I came out. Boots still always rotted from the inside out. Had 6 heat strokes and passed out ~20 times of heat exhaustion. You know your alive when you wake up naked in a stainless steel cow tank filled with ice water and thermometers sticking out of every orifice in your body and half a dozen corpsmen are screaming about your body core temp and push you back down in the ice. Good time.... NOT! And I reenlisted how many times?! Yeah I'm done sweating if I can help it LOL.

 

Was stationed there for 4 years in late 70's to 1980. Lady I'm dating now has a daughter lives there, twice this week she sent pics of ice on her windshield including yesterday. Not normal! Her and her husband just bought a house and he had to go to Germany for a couple of weeks for training. Their furnace died and she called asking how to use the fireplace. It is a wood fireplace. In San Diego??

Have a friend that lives in Oahu 6 months of the year, Boston the other 6 easy to figure out which place when 72 degrees everyday in Oahu. Last winter he sent an email that he was looking for a jacket and didn't have one, it got down to 57 one night. It was in the teens below zero here. I spent 6 months there and that was enough on the rock for me, it does get boring.

 

Only thing I had to endure in my 23 career that was remotely close to that was wearing MOPP 4 gear (full chemical warfare suit complete with rubber booties, rubber gloves and a rubber gas mask/hood) in 102 degree heat for 4 hours at a time. But even though doesn't come close to what you did.

 

Holy crap! I'm with Cam ... I got nothing ... you win this round Mike.

 

Ha sometimes I wonder about the choices I made early in life. It did help me discover that a person can really push past almost any comfort zone they have though.

Those MOPP suits were no fun either. We ran short of them during Desert Storm but decided that they would kill us in the engineroom if we wore them anyhow so gave up ours to the rest of the ship. I was one of 5 NBC warfare trainers in my spare time on the boat. Settled on an Atropine pen and gas mask for each of us and called it a day, and hoped we never needed any of it which we didn't thank goodness.

25% of our gas masks had defective check valves. The "solution" was to lift a corner of the mask and quickly inhale, seal again and exhale as hard as you could to free it. Yeah right.. Yep there are somethings I just don't miss at all. But there are other things I do miss, such as a lot of the people I worked with. And the hazing and initiations

 

Yeah, I think if I have had to wear full MOPP gear in a desert environment and there were actual chemical weapons used, I would have flipped a coin to determine if I wanted to die of nerve agent or from heat stroke. Those suits were TERRIBLE.

 

Yeah... there are some days I miss being in the service and then I stop and think about all the deployments and 12 hour shifts and eating MREs for weeks at a time until your intestinal track is a wreck and wearing MOPP gear... that cures the longing for the old days.

 

Lol- MRE - Meals that Refuse To Exit.

 

Haha... I got so sick from eating MREs three times a day for six weeks that I could not be more than 10 feet away from a bathroom. Took my guts two weeks to recover.

 

I spent a couple of years on a Gator Freighter out of Little Creek, Va. (Landing Ship Dock, amphibious assault marine landing ship) in the mid, late 80's. For the midwatch in port we got Marine MRE's. When I was the Officer of the Deck they gave you a MRE and it was always a "crap shoot" what you got. Sometimes they would block you up for days. Other times I swear they should be called Meal Ready to Exit. Longest 4 hours of my life! Once in awhile would have to say the hell with it and whip off the sidearm and throw it at the Petty Officer of the watch and say you got it be right back and run for the head. Some people buy them for camping if you can believe it LOL.

 

LMAO... yeah, some of my friends that like to camp buy those things. WHAT ? I wouldn't eat one of those again unless I was hours away from dying of starvation!

 

Ha! That's hysterical !!

 

Good Morning Folks! Still warm and humid here! 90% humidity this morning with rain in the forecast. We can use the rain. Then cooler for the weekend but it's not going to last, back up in the 80's for Christmas. Have a nice day!

 

Morning everybody.

 

Morning JD, MQQSE, and All ! Yeah, cold spell here for three days then we return to more moderate temps.

Corny Joke Of The Day: Why didn't the skeleton go to the movie ? He had no body to go with.

Sorry.

 

One of my corny park joke's - you say to someone, hey there looking for ya!! If they answer you saying Who!! Your reply is - The Squirrels, They think you're Nuts!!! Ha!

 

Morning guys and gals!