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Daryl

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Trousers or breech clouts?
« on: September 06, 2008, 04:02:28 AM »
This is for all you guys who wear tight fitting undies and trousers in hot weather.

C. Cash

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Re: Trousers or breech clouts?
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2008, 04:30:16 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D

Offline b bogart

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Re: Trousers or breech clouts?
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2008, 04:35:11 AM »
What?? you are supposed to wear undies?? Trousers?? That's why I get those looks!
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Re: Trousers or breech clouts?
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2008, 05:21:11 AM »
Period correct???

Offline Longknife

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Re: Trousers or breech clouts?
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2008, 04:08:12 PM »
If it's good enough for a monkey-----------!!!!!!!!
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Re: Trousers or breech clouts?
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2008, 04:44:22 AM »
On canoe trips we used to call it the WBI's!!!  wet but itch! :-[ :'(
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Re: Trousers or breech clouts?
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2008, 09:01:52 AM »
About the first thing I had to teach the first timers to Vietnam was to throw away their underwear.   Otherwise they were in total misery for a few weeks until they figured out  their crotch and armpits were an infected  mess because the cotton underwear kept those areas wet 24 hours a day breeding all sorts of rot.  Belts could  also cause problems too.   I was one of the first to go there and had to figure it out the hard way.   Sort of a tropical form of trench foot I suppose. 

BuffaloGun

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Re: Trousers or breech clouts?
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2008, 01:01:56 PM »
Amen Jerry, it's been 36 years and my feet still ain't right. :(

Trkdriver99

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Re: Trousers or breech clouts?
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2008, 05:02:31 PM »
 ;D @!*% its been 40 years since I was there and you had to bring up jungle rot. That stuff would get you down. ;D
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Re: Trousers or breech clouts?
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2008, 01:20:17 AM »
About the first thing I had to teach the first timers to Vietnam was to throw away their underwear.   Otherwise they were in total misery for a few weeks until they figured out  their crotch and armpits were an infected  mess because the cotton underwear kept those areas wet 24 hours a day breeding all sorts of rot.  Belts could  also cause problems too.   I was one of the first to go there and had to figure it out the hard way.   Sort of a tropical form of trench foot I suppose. 

I figured the underwear thing the first time I went on patrol. The green boxers wadded up, cut them off with my knife during a break.

Dan
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