Campfires for Dummies
At the sake of opening a can of worms, I thought I would share a PhotoShop image I created last year. The running joke in our circle of camping friends is my buddy Duane who fancies himself a master ...
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kep5niner wrote:
Everything I needed to know about fire building I learned in SERE school. Knee-high fire, thumb-size fuel, 10 minutes or less... I can still hear that going through my head, and that was almost 1.5 decades ago. Thought you'd appreciate that 11B.;)
No doubt! I still miss heat tabs. However, I was Light Infantry. We never made fires or "pitched a tent" using our shelter halves. Light Infantry meant we had no vehicles...we carried everything we needed on our backs. The sleeping bag I was issued was turned back in after 4 years, never taken to the field. I used my protective mask as a pillow and a poncho/poncho liner as a blanket.
My infantry experience is the reason I told my wife when we first married that I would never camp again. I did relent and we did camp in tents for a few years, but the RV lifestyle is far better.
Light Infantry is anything but light!
