What is the worst field environment you have experienced
 

I used the search function and I couldn't find anything that totally covers this topic. I am curious about the suckiest field environment you have been in during training or combat....This would be aside from the enemy...I'm talking about pure sucky environment, whether its arctic training or horrible humidity while fighting off a parasitic infection or just shit garbage heaps in the street...raining for days, no sleep, no food etc.

What is the worst environmental and physically challenging environment you have experienced?


This topic was inspired from reading the Q course experiences

The one I was in. All environments have their challenges and they all have the potential of major SUCK......

Hell had some major suck back at the homestead but that is another part of the life;)

Hmmmm! If I don't count the mountains on Iraq/Iran border, I would have to say the first night in Philly when I was looking for a restaurant. Found what looked like a nice place, walked in, was seated, place a drink order, and realized it was a Gay bar. :eek:

Haha....you don't even need a tab to go there...can be a very challenging environment indeed

NW of Omdurman
 

NW of Omdurman in the summer time.

Sudanese desert and Arctic Alaska sound horrible....I would imagine the lack of light would exacerbate the deep freeze NW of Fairbanks

Above the Arctic Circle. You can do everything right and still wind up with a snow nap. :D

Peacetime: Bundasi, Ghana
Contingency Operations: Thiotte, Haiti
Combat: Helmand, Afghanistan

Mother-in-laws house.

That's the best line in this thread.:D

Coming home at 0300 on a Sunday morning and asking my wife (in all sincerity) how her day was....Not a good place to be....:D

JRTC April of 93, rained for 11 days. It did keep the OPFOR holed up...

Recon operations at Ft. Polk, LA in the middle of August, 1980. 113 degrees.

You must have been on the rotation after me, I was there in March of '93. I don't remember it raining for 11 days, but I do remember it being 13 degrees and freezing rain on our first night "in the box". We were coming from Hawaii, most of us were wearing jungle boots, and we were only carrying one sleeping bag for every three guys. Good times.

It might not have been the absolute suckiest time in the field, but it definitely wasn't the best.