I had to use the porta loo in the field. I was sitting there and the door blew open and hundreds of families saw me
When I was a mechanized infantry soldier, we'd train for months at a time in the Mojave desert.
In my squad, we had developed a way to turn the reinforced cardboard cases from MRE's into a portable toilet to avoid the unsupported squatting maneuver.
One morning, just before sunrise, I grabbed the shovel, paper and custom potty box and headed over the hill to do my business.
Just as the sun popped up, I heard a rumble headed my way. In the desert, it's often hard to identify terrain features in the dark.
I had set up my perch on the edge of an established tank trail and had no options but to smile and wave as a battalion of armor rolled by in M1 tanks.
Jay
