Do soldiers need to piss and shit in battlefield?

I'm from 100% humidity too, but only shower once a day. I might go for a rinse or two in addition given the luxury, and if conditions arise to do so. However 5 times is extreme, and if you're soaping up too you are at risk of killing your skin.

 

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A former WW2 soldier told me that, while in Europe, his unit "acquired" a rather luxurious chair from a mansion, tore out the seat, and used it as an elaborate commode.

 

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You lucky !

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no, they just present their platinum visa card at the nearest ritz hotel or book the next passage home on the next flight/ cruise ship.

 

I want to live there.

 

It always amazes me how often people are incapable of using the actual words for bodily processes. Why not say ‘urinate’ and ‘defecate’? :shrug:

 

He could have, but I have to wonder if the response to this thread would have been the same. As an OP it is on you to try an attract the greatest number of readers, which in turn may give you more responders to the topic. I could be wrong but I thought Saint chose to use shit and piss over defecate and urinate on purpose.

 

Considerable improvement on 'cat sanitation' has come about in recent years.

Cleanwaste - Dry Portable Toilet Systems Featuring the Original WAG BAG®

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http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/personal/cleanwaste/

 

Damn! That's better than inventing the paper clip. A ready made market with a deep pockets customer. Can't get much better than that.

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Back in 1066, when William of Normandy invaded England, killed King Harold, and brought his Norman nobility over to help him rule, they spoke French while those beneath them continued to speak the English they had been speaking all along. Along those class lines, it's considered cultured to use French words or words from Latin (from which French derived), and it's considered vulgar to use English or words from the Germanic (from which English derived).

I don't need to go through them here, but think of any body part or bodily function and their cultured and vulgar counterparts, and most of the so-called cultured words are derived from French or Latin, and most of the so-called vulgar words (or allegedly "slang" words) are from English or the Germanic.

A quick way to distinguish them is that the French/Latin-derived words are usually longer with multiple syllables, typically with alternating consonants and vowels with simple consonant clusters giving about a 50/50 mix (eg, defecate); and the English/Germanic-derived words are often monosyllabic with many more consonants than vowels and with complex consonant clusters (eg, shit). The ridiculousness of this "class distinction" may have been reached (let's hope so) by the former euphemistic use of the term the monosyllable for something necessary for the survival of the human race, as it were.

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If it wasn't for that bastard William, we'd be pissing and shitting just fine without any sense of embarrassment or seeming vulgar. I say that, if it was good enough for King Harold, it's good enough for us. By the way, William really was a bastard (which means conceived in a barn {w00t!}), one of his appellations being William the Bastard or, I'm sorry for being so "vulgar", let me use the more "cultured" version, William the Illegitimate.

William is also the reason why it's "wrong" to end a sentence with a preposition, because it's considered wrong by French grammatical rules, but it is allowed by [ancient] English grammatical rules (how many English teachers know this nowadays?). In other words, you're not suppose to.

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For the ladies who don't care to drop and squat just to take a leak (and, really, who would?), there's this little miracle that easily fits into any purse, glove box, backpack, etc.

 

During my 8 years in the military, not once have I ever seen anything like that.

 

I investigated a similar little device called a 'Freshette' when I was racing sled dogs competitively, and decided after reading about it that it wasn't suited to my needs.

I did master the art of urinating while squatting on the runners of a moving sled though. Given the remoteness of the venue and the distance between racers I am reasonably certain that I never 'mooned' anyone, lol...

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Hope you didn't hit any bumps, but who knows, it might be a refreshing experience?

 

At the risk of broaching an indelicate topic (but after all this IS a science site and biology one of the sciences) I will comment that the very best thing for winter cleanup after answering nature's call is snow.

Very refreshing indeed!

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One comment that pertains to the battlefield aspect of this thread is that when the body is under extreme stress, one will often notice a change in the regularity of bowel function, depending on the diet being eaten.

When I was racing the quest, I was eating mostly protein and fat which slow down gut motility as they are slower to digest yet excellent for my needs of endurance energy and staying warm.

My need to have a 'sitting' or bowel movement was often reduced to once in 3 days by this diet and the physical demands of the race. Additionally, because it is exceedingly awkward to unzip multiple layers in cold weather, I drank only enough fluids to stave off dehydration thereby reducing also the number of times I needed to void.

When I was on my mandatory layovers I would catch up on feed, rest and hydration at a location with heated amenities.

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