Posted by jdleach on January 12, 2014 at 00:55:32 from (98.212.87.58):
In Reply to: Cold weather memories posted by lee little on January 07, 2014 at 18:25:56:
Feel your pain Patrick, served in the Nav for 6 years, and peacoats flat sucked for warmth. Last year I was in, was stationed on a tin can out of Norfolk, and while it usually never got very cold, that destroyer felt like an icebox most of the time in the winter.
The worst duty was going through boot at Great Lakes in November and December. Back then, it was not considered torture to mash ricky recruit on the parade ground in 0 weather.
On another note, after I got discharged, I came home to Indiana in a severe recession (1981). Given a choice between starvation and going back into the Navy, I chose hunger. Got a job in a stone mill (unheated, two walls and a roof) at 3.15 an hour. Also rented a 2-room house with a path outside town on a small farm. I remember trying to heat that little house with a wash stove (dumb idea), and like to froze to death that first winter. Got real tired of frozen coffee in the the pot. The 3 years I lived at the Little House were the coldest I have ever experienced. The interesting thing, is that it did something to me. Ever since that time, the cold just doesn't seem to bother me like it did when I was a kid. To this day, I haven't owned a coat, and only wear a jacket on the coldest days. Wife says sleeping with me is like having the furnace in bed. Maybe my metabolism went into high gear and got stuck.
This post was edited by jdleach at 00:56:08 01/12/14.
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