3/1 at the Jungle Warfare Training Center. Photo by Lance Cpl. Stephen D. Himes
The desert is hard. The jungle is harder.
Sidenote: This might be a goofy question and if it is forgive me...but I wonder how those camelbacks (the entire system) hold up in those conditions...and would you really want to be sucking water from a hose that has been immersed in that filthy muck?