In Bootcamp can you dropout or are you sent to solitary for failing to complete it?
100 Degrees... try going to school in Perth.
Typically the start of school term is 40 to 44 degrees C. Thats 104 to 111 F. And we still play sport in those conditions.
Or working in Sumatra and Borneo a balmy 97+ Fahrenheit and 98 to 100% humidity. Hiking for ten to twelve hours a day through thick jungle with an incline over 1:1 in some instances, through swamp, clay mud, quicksand, thornbushes etc With injuries such as 3rd degree burns, diahorrea, mass bruising, lacerations. Joys of tick swarms... tiny red brown ticks so small that they are hard to see as individuals but as a mass swarm up your arm changing the tone of your skin a couple of shades towards latte brown. Leaches that bury through your boots and socks and suck the blood, yet since it is so humid you don't feel your socks filling up with blood until you take them off at the end of the day. Being beneath the jungle canopy and hearing the roar of the thunderstorm coming in like waves crashing at the beach. The fall of rain so thick that despite being under 30meters (90foot) of canopy you can barely make out the outline of your team who are within 6 foot of you, the terrible cold as your body goes from an environment of humid body temperature to icy rain. You sweat so much that if you hold off going for a p!ss the water will be reabsorbed into your body and you don't feel the need any longer. You can drink a litre and a half (2 pints) of cordial before lunch and still finish a large meal, and by the time you are hiking again you are sweating cordial (it is sweet to the taste).
Or East of Marble Bar, where at the end of the day of hiking through the desert I felt cold at then end of the days exploration when sitting in the shade wearing jeans, flannel shirt, hat and steel caps and it was 38C (100F). The red desert with snake and lizard tracks. You know you are getting dehydrated at the end of the day despite drinking over 6 L of water which you carry as you go, why? Because instead of imagining a beach with babes over the dune and their welcoming attentions, you imagine the same beach and running past the babes for the cool waters.
The thing is at the end of the day as long as I had a beer and a shower I was fine. I also had the option of ending it and going home. Choice makes a huge difference over how one feels about a situation. Of course if you understand yourself well enough you can always choose to be happy.
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