If you count out the camping experience during a tornado 'alert' in Alabama....then you come to this seven-day deployment to Honduras for an exercise.
The Air Force, in the mid-80s....had sent me to Honduras to play out some headquarters exercise. They dumped us at some tent-city....the old fashion canvas tents that were still of the Vietnam era quality.
The mosquito netting? Non-existent.
Next to some snaky-looking terrain? Well...about sixty feet away.
Daily temperature? Near 95 degrees and 70-percent humidity.
Warnings about spiders and such? Yeah.
I was among the 'lucky' ones....another hundred-odd guys had arrived five weeks prior to set the entire camp up, and their enthusiasm by the 5th week was marginally around non-existent.
The minute the exercise broke up....we got our bags, ran to the airfield and in two hours....were aboard some cargo plane going back home.
So I kinda look over the photos of this migration-kid's center in Texas, and see a pretty nifty deal. No mosquitos apparently. No snakes. No spiders. AC apparently in use. Three meals a day.
I don't really see much negative over the conditions.
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