Military bathroom question

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Scheherazade
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OK, I know I only come to the military forum to ask stupid questions, but I was hearing stories today from when my dad was in the service, somehow we got on the subject of lavatories and how there were no dividers in the bathrooms between commodes.

My mom was totally grossed out by the thought of pooping next to someone with no stalls for division.

Is this still the way it is? Or are there dividers in the bathrooms on bases nowdays?



Sorry for the stupid question, really, I just couldn't imagine being so up-close-and-personal with others!
 
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OK, I know I only come to the military forum to ask stupid questions, but I was hearing stories today from when my dad was in the service, somehow we got on the subject of lavatories and how there were no dividers in the bathrooms between commodes.

My mom was totally grossed out by the thought of pooping next to someone with no stalls for division.

[/ QUOTE ]Maybe back in the day it was like that. I know Hollywood usually portrays it like that (Full Metal Jacket, etc.). However when I was in Navy boot camp in Great Lakes circa 1996, we had dividers between the commodes, but no doors on the stalls. Shower was communal though.
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Is this still the way it is? Or are there dividers in the bathrooms on bases nowdays?

Sorry for the stupid question, really, I just couldn't imagine being so up-close-and-personal with others!

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Yes, your everyday, normal, modern military base has regular facilities just like any other public buildings. Even Navy ships, where space is at a premium, have your regular four-walled stalls. We even had a few half-bathrooms (single commode, single sink) scattered around the last ship I was stationed on.
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Maybe back in the day it was like that.


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I should have specified, this was the early 70's. So 30+ years have passed! Glad to hear things have changed!
 
Oh man, I remember I couldn't take a dump for a week when i started boot camp! I just couldn't get used to sitting on the toilet and not having a door. Then as you get used to it, you have conversations while you doing you thing, either with the guy in the next stall or someone at the sink. As far as the communal shower, I always felt like I was in some prison movie and someone was going to either violate me or shank me!
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I even had communal showers at my barracks in Norfolk. Scary!
 
Even the Army base I was at in Iraq had dividers. And I heard on deployments you don't get that luxury, then again I also heard Camel Spiders will bite your face off at night.
 
Tent toilets have a vinyl divider that comes down on the sides..I hate tent showers on deployments. You have to walk down those small aisles , and find a empty space to shower. I walked through once and caught someone choking his chicken. The [censored] idiot didn't even stop
 
As the embedded media so deftly reported during the invasion of Iraq, things ain't so hot in the field. Grunts on the ground were pooping in ammo cans or into holes dug in the ground with a makeshift "throne" set up over the top of it. Early facilities at makeshift garrisons ("tent cities") probably aren't much better.
 
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Tent toilets have a vinyl divider that comes down on the sides..I hate tent showers on deployments. You have to walk down those small aisles , and find a empty space to shower. I walked through once and caught someone choking his chicken. The [censored] idiot didn't even stop

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Hahahahah! Never had that experience, but we did have one guy that would chill out and watch everybody shower for a long ass time pretending like he was going through his shower kit.
 
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Tent toilets have a vinyl divider that comes down on the sides..I hate tent showers on deployments. You have to walk down those small aisles , and find a empty space to shower. I walked through once and caught someone choking his chicken. The [censored] idiot didn't even stop

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Hahahahah! Never had that experience, but we did have one guy that would chill out and watch everybody shower for a long ass time pretending like he was going through his shower kit.

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LMFAO We had the TCN's cleaning the place try to pull that [censored]!1
 
While it is true that this is a "thing" of the past, some of the older posts that the National Guard uses for training still have to old style latrines. But as Doug so eloquently pointed out when ya gotta go, ya gotta go!
 
The Navy has ships???? Wow cool concept LOL

The 5 star hotel I stayed at on my last deployment, even had a radio and phone next to the toilet, along with jacuzzi jets in the bath tub...
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<<<<<Running for cover..........................
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Well its the Navy, of course they have communal showers!!

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The rule was if you drop your soap kick it all the way out the door before you bend over to pick it up!
 
Amber

When I was in Boot Camp, there were no diverders on the urinals, the commodes had dividers, but no doors.
 
Boy did I pick the wrong community or what!
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Instead of living with in a compartment with 20 other guys I could have been chillin by the pool at some resort?
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I dugress!
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Mountain Warfare Training Center, in Bridgeport, California. There are about 30 toilets in the mens' head, without as much as a doorstop between each of them.

Now, imagine a company of Infantrymen fresh out of the field, after a week or so in the bush eating MRE's and, ummm, holding 'it'.
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So, there we are, doing our thing and talking about how happy we are to be back in the rear. It was different. . .
 
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