This seems to be the most random idiotic article that I have read in a very long time. So what was it a slow news week. Did you go out last night and was so wasted that you just said hey 8yr old nephew can you write me an article.

So because meteorologist typically measure temperatures in an open breezy area, the temperatures that the troops are measuring on the sand (where they are standing 99.9% of the time) or on concrete (which in your boots feel a whole heck of a lot cooler than sand) is inaccurate.

First off I have never just randomly found a lot of shade in the midst of Iraq, so I could probably care less of what temp it is.

What I do care about is that whether or not the sand is going to be so hot that I will need to get a new pair of boots because my soles are melting. You see when troops walk across that tarmac (sp) and there boots start to get sticky, as if perhaps someone spilled soda and I just happened to walk through it, I could give a flying monkey about whether you gage the temp at 124 or whether we gage the temp at 140. To me its just hot as hell. It's so hot you actually add extra clothes to try to keep your clothes somewhat damp so you can at least manage to step one foot in front of the other.

Funny thing is I remember being relieved after coming in off mission to finally be landing to realize that the we were no longer descending but ascending. We were ascending because the plane in front of us whose tires hit the runway spun out. Why did it spin out? Because the 140 degree heat combined with the friction of the tires on the runway caused the tires to melt.