Gotta take a dump, Yo.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
12/21/2018 at 23:56 • Filed to: None

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lone_liberal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/22/2018 at 00:33

When I was in boot camp there were various buildings that had open shitters (fancy Navy term) like that. You learn to deal.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/22/2018 at 00:34

Wow that’s ummm cramped.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > lone_liberal
12/22/2018 at 00:44

...by not eating.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
12/22/2018 at 00:44

Oh, that life could suck so bad.

lone_liberal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/22/2018 at 00:57

Strangely enough for like the first week or so of boot camp nobody had to use the shitters. It became a thing. “Have you shit yet?” was a common topic of conversation. Then systems adjusted and the plumbing got a workout. Like I said, you deal.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/22/2018 at 01:10

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > lone_liberal
12/22/2018 at 07:49

In my basic training, it was similar, though not as traumatic. There were porta-potties and limited time and there’d be three dudes peeing at one time all stuffed in there. Didn’t take long to get over the stage fright. After morning chow they’d March us to the barracks and lots of dudes would take a crap and the brothers from Philly would constantly be saying, “He’s taking a SHIT. You taking a shit? He’s taking a SHIT.” I’d be like, “People DO that.”

There are aspects of my military service that I am not nostalgic about.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/22/2018 at 10:12

My female cousin is a navy intelligence office on a sub... I’m guessing things have improved for women and room to bunk and poop.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
12/22/2018 at 11:03

Let's hope. gender roles and all of that, perhaps, but I should think that women would have an easier time with an open bathroom situation like that than dudes would.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/22/2018 at 11:22

Marine Corps basic training was all open shitters (with the luxury of porta- potties when in the field). You got used to it quickly. They were also the place where virtually all mail was read and letters written late at night . Like some others posted, I’m not sure anyone used them for the first week or so until the plumbing got adjusted to new lifestyle. You actually got on the schedule of only using them at night, as there was just no way to take a shit during the day. During the day, a head call was eight dudes pissing around each shitter at the same time to a (high volume) count down.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
12/22/2018 at 14:12

...with the luxury of porta-potties...

What a preposterous phrase. And yet...

When I was in the Army, showers were the drain-from-a-bag kind and I would go scare up a couple of five-gallon jugs and fill them with water and stash them somewhere and pull a 2 am guard duty and take my shower then. I expect taking a dump would go much the same way, and you’d have to gauge your eating... I just have a difficult time imagining learning to live with wiping my butt for an audience.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/22/2018 at 15:00

Eventually you’ve got to go, and once you realize everyone else it doing it too it doesn’t feel like a big deal any more. At times there was the opportunity when you might be the only one in there late at night, like maybe after a firewatch shift.

For the most part, right after lights out was when everyone had the opportunity for a bowel movement and wanted to read mail and write letters. It was also when things like edge dressing shoes for an upcoming inspection or things like that happened. You didn’t usually have a firewatch shift every night, and waking up in the middle of the night to do that if you didn’t have to just wasn’t something that happened. Sleep was a far more valuable commodity than taking a dump in private.

This was also primarily a basic training thing. Every other squad bay environment I saw after basic training had stalls with doors.