Waste disposal 2 army corps, 2 marine divisions- operation Desert storm/desert shield

Three hundred years from now, every eighth-grade history book will contain some picture of Joe standing in front of a barrel of burning human excrement. Every enlisted Marine did it, and every veteran remembers the smells, the thoughts, and the odd feeling of stirring poop stew. During my tour in Desert Shield/Desert Storm, this photo was the norm. Somewhere, everywhere, the plume of burning poop let the world know “America means business.”

Try to explain the urinal system you used in the combat zone. We used ‘piss tubes’ as we referred to them. They were large fuel barrels buried in ground with screen wire across the barrel at ground level. You stood at the piss tube in front of God and everyone to take a piss. Diesel fuel was used to keep down smell. I never heard of any of them filling up to where they were to be pulled out of ground and emptied somewhere. Now that would have been a whole new detail. What an experience…I’ll never forget it either.

Read Annapolis Creed for a real poop story at Lonesome Dove..Not exactly what you might think.
~Annapolis Creed