2Boosher
Sorry, got as far as the "the night before".
Have you seen the "I, Robot" movie? A-a-acho-o-o-o!!! I'm sorry, I'm alergic to bull$hit.
No offence, but that is exactly what it is.
Few points to take into consideration:
The bathing part. There has been no women uniform. Yet they took what they had and redone it to fit and still look beautiful. That wasn't an African desert - lots of water everywhere.
Can write forever... Yet that is not the point. The point is - they were Soldiers. Just as 14 y.o. kids that had firearms in their hands. They fought not because they were made to. They FOUGHT to get to the front to FIGHT. THAT is the major point.
I regret the fact that there is a major shortage of the books on the topic in English. I wish I had time to translate some...
Where are you in the US? I live in the Chicagoland area, might be we could talk that over, either in person, or by phone, or e-mail, or whatever - not the AOL messenger though