Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cold, wet feet have long rendered soldiers hors de combat as surely as enemy bullets. The rain-soaked coastal lowlands of Viet Nam and the paddy-fields of the Mekong Delta have presented U.S. troops with a less-understood disorder: warm-water-immersion foot...
...troops were out on combat operations for days on end with no chance to change their socks or dry their feet. Their feet became white, wrinkled, and so painful that at best it was difficult to walk. For some, it was impossible. These men had to be evacuated. Warm-water foot was causing more casualties than the Viet Cong...
...research team headed by Dr. Larry J. Buckets figured that a water-repellent ointment might be the answer; the best candidate seemed to be a silicone grease. They enlisted 61 Marine Corps volunteers at Camp Lejeune last summer, when the water temperature in the North Carolina swamps, at 70° to 80° F., approximated that of Viet...
...Marines who sloshed through 18 inches of water without any special protection, five developed immersion foot, and four had to be evacuated after three days. Only one made it through the five-day trial. The other 55 smeared the silicone grease on their feet every 24 hours; some of them also wore silicone-treated socks. Of these men, not one had to drop out because of immersion foot; only six of them developed it, and theirs were mild cases...
...found the mark. Piqued by what it considered excessive panoply surrounding the Adenauer funeral, the magazine noted that his body had been borne on an army truck and navy boat. In a neat reductio ad absurdum, it wondered in cartoons why the casket was not also carried under water by frogmen, helicoptered aloft, then parachuted back to earth, where it could have been loaded into a rocket launcher and aimed heavenward...