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Wherever a soldier happens to be deployed, aside from the dangers of combat, they'll come to find that the new and unfamiliar environment itself plays a pivotal role in defining the experience.

While there are plenty of tempered corners of the globe whose natural elements make for comfortable outdoor living.

Military personnel are more often expected to live and fight in some of the most hostile

environments on earth. Ask any soldier who's deployed to Iraq and they'll tell you about the

blistering dry heat and massive blinding sandstorms, or the soldiers in Vietnam who have nothing nice to say about

its climate. Likewise, the sailors and Marines who have found themselves stationed throughout Asia

and the Pacific, like myself, can attest to the many frustrations presented by operating

in the jungle, the humidity, the torrential downpours, the dense undergrowth,

and we cannot forget, the bugs. Having never traveled to Asia prior to enlisting, I honestly

never knew mosquitoes and centipedes could get so big. And then there were the spiders. There was

nothing like walking through the jungle in the pitch dark at night

and putting your face through a cobweb that actually pushes you back,

like walking into a literal net.

And then you feel something with long spindly legs crawling across the back of your neck.

But after some research, it seems that my collective experiences with giant venomous

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