I helped burn down a GP Medium tent with a diesel furnace when I was stationed in Germany.
Was about 20 of us got sent out to live in a tent in the field on a ski resort. We had to dig a couple of feet of snow to put up the tent, but it worked out good because it sealed pretty good around the base. But it was cold and we had a pot bellied diesel fired stove for heat. The manual very clearly said not to cut the diesel with gasoline, to use denatured alcohol. Problem was we were up on a ski moutain and had no denatured alcohol, but someone had a gasoline powered jeep with a spare gasoline can full of gasoline and since the diesel kept gelling and stopping up the pot bellied heater burner, guess what we did? Thats right, we cut the diesel with gasoline, and that made the burner burn pretty good. Slowly the diesel and the gasoline seperated, and that caused a recalibration or few of the burner to flow the thickening diesel finding its way to the bottom of the 5 gallon can, and the lighter thinner gasoline to settle to the top. It got late and we all cozied up in our sleeping bags as sugar plums danced in our sleepy heads for a couple of hours, when there rose such a roaring clatter that had us all up out of our sleeping bags, dancing the jig because after the thick diesel ran through the burner, the much thinner gasoline followed. It wasn't Santa Klausen and Rudolfo roaring and bellowing out on the top of our tent. Nope, it was WOOOOOOOOOSHHHH, and POOOOOOOOOF, and then up in flames. That burning gasoline overflowed and by then we had been there a few days, so inside the tent was dry grass, and up she went. That tent and everything burned to the ground in no time. It was bad enough that our Battalion and Brigade commanders left us up there a few days to teach us a lesson for doing that, sleeping in shelters on the backs of duece and a halves and five tons before they pulled us out of there, but before we left, we had to dig up all of the burnt and contaminated ground and cart it off in bags because the Germans take conservation very serious.
Up to that point, it was fun hitting on the hottie German women skiers and drinking beer in the gasthouse (guest house/tavern/bar/schnitzel place). But...all good things must come to an end, and did that night...thats for sure.
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