There is a reason I can go to a surplus store and pick things off the shelf like the MB dash mounted rifle racks, or an original 1944 gas rattle, or a double sized GPMG cut-away training aid along with the M1 garand version complete with plastic bullets. I can walk about the yard and find CMP funnels, or piece together a C-1 howitzer. It is because the climate here would kill off the Ontario crowd. I remember when guys would get posted here from S. Ontario and didn't know what a block heater was, or a frost shield.
I was on the Turkish side of Cypress decades back, and we were pouring buckets of sweat in the 40°C heat. A Turkish "millionaire" (which means he made around $800 a year) was there in his long sleeves and long pants and kind of laughing at us. We told him we reached +40 back home, and 6 months later it would be -40C. He stopped laughing then.
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