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I posted this on the political bull session, but since a good share of the more normal posters on this board stay away from there, I'm going to share these pictures with you folks too.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been complaining when the mercury has been hovering around the one hundred degree mark for the past few days. I’ve quit complaing after I got these pictures from one of “my” young soldiers stationed in Baghdad. He’s in the army on his second tour of duty, his first tour was in Afghanistan.

This time he is based at the airport in Baghdad where he is a mechanic. Many of the vehicles they have to fix are too large to park inside, so they work on them on the pavement outside. One morning last week Zeb held a digital thermometer beside the vehicle they were working on outside and you can see from the picture that it is pretty darn hot.



Don’t know if you can see this one, but it says 170.5 degrees!!! This is when they decided to quit until after dark. I don’t remember for sure, but isn’t 170 degrees the temperate required to boil alcohol? Seems like that’s what the old guys who grew up during prohibition told me.



Living dangerously in more ways than one. Note the gas can our hero is sitting on while he enjoys a cigarette in the shade. The rifle goes everywhere with him, even to bed where it is attached to his ankle while sleeping. They are allowed to leave their rifles outside the shower, but it must be immediately available to them.



One of the tanks brought into the shop.



It could get hotter soon – note the No Smoking sign on the side of the gasoline tanker! Gotta have a little fun sometimes…



This is my favorite of all the pictures. Who could have imagined that a young soldier from South Dakota would someday sit on the Butcher of Baghdad’s throne and live to tell the story. Here’s Zeb enjoying himself in Saddam’s palace. Way to go kid!!!
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