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How did soldiers in Iraq handle the extreme summer heat?

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Easy. Heat acclimatisation. I'm not an Iraqi soldier, but I was conscripted into the Singapore Armed Forces for two years. There is some relevance here, because Singapore shares the same kind of scorching weather with Iraq, except we don't have seasons - almost everyday is “Summer”. read more

I'm a United States Marine and I did one tour during the summer of 2005 in Fallujah, Iraq with the heat reaching 139 degrees. We were able to withstand that temperature cause we trained in hot weather in California and we climatized for a month when we arrived in Iraq. read more

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