Completely and Totally Eroneous. A failure to journalism
by
ambrosij
09/16/2007, 10:57 AM #
This article is one of the most erroneous and inaccuarate articles I have ever read. If you do not believe that the heat has indeed gotten over 150 then talk to some of your peers that have been to Iraq as reporters, surely they will tell you that during the dog days of summer 130 is a normalcy. In the military we use very high tech thermometers, and the reason for this is to gauge the heat index for our risk assessments, yes everything including the temperature is figured into operations. It is both a wet bulb and dry bulb reading, and it is very accurate. I have personnally seen the reading at 146, at around 4PM in the middle of August. And as for the comment about the type of heat....where are most operations being conducted? In Baghdad right? What surrounds Baghdad...a river right? Well the humidity generated by the river is stiffling I personally operated South of Baghdad near the river, where the foilage is closer to jungle than desert, and with the flooding of the fields and the humidity from the river, I would argue that at times the humidity was near 100%. And as for the weight soldiers carry, Senator McCain is incorrect. We do not carry 40 pounds, in fact the plates alone weigh over 40 pounds if the side plates are in. Once you add ammunition and a weapon the weight is closer to 60 pounds, add in a gallon of water and we are closer to 70. If you have any questions post to this and I will answer them, until then stop publishing information that is not true.
