Remember NEO i didn't say it would be easy, only that it was the truth.

Not all of my stories are rated G. Though i will try my best to keep them as close to that as possible.  So we were in Panama, Central America, at the jungle operations training center (Jungle Ops School).  We have been in the boonies about 5 days straight.  We stop by a slow moving stream, to cool off, reload canteens with water and iodine tablets. (kills mosquito larvae), and cool off in the small stream.  now every unit has one, and ours was no different. (brown nose).  and as usual, for the purposes of this blog, we will not use his last name.  But his name was Jim.  Jim had a bad habbit of not making runs, falling out on long range recons, etc.  However, anytime the LT, or Squad leder stopped, there was JIM!  up their behind.  Well several of us told Jim to cool off reload canteen etc, cause we were not humpin his sorry behind out of the boonies.  But NOPE Jime knew best, sitting near the sgt/lt was where he needed to be.  the rest of us guys, cooled off, had full canteens tasting of fresh iodine. Gosh i can almost still taste that stuff......  anyway after a good 30 minute of this we all began to relieve ourself in "said Stream" slightly upstream from where we had originally stopped.  And folks relief comes in two forms, and eating cRats, and MRE's, can make the latter rather ugly.  Well after all the relief was had, we relaxed by the riverbank, (On the side where we did not have to cross the stream, in order to continue with the mission) (get my meaning)?  well Now that we are getting ready to go..... Jim Comes to the stream, fills both canteens, Iodine and all, and splashes water all over his face to cool off now. (down stream) of previous described relief.....  we just about pissed ourselves laughing.  Jim used to being the brunt of the jokes paid us no mind, didn't ask why we were laughing, and none of us offered the answer.  about 6 hours later he was medivacd from the jungle in a jeep.  severe stomach cramps, and both types of relief coming for him, in rather liquid versions of it's former form.  See there are many stories about ole Jim, and perhaps we can revisit him again in a later post.