Re: Piss call

["Patricia Winston \(Trish\)" <patricia_winston@hotmail.com>]

You might want to contact a WASP for the answer. They were flying long hops
to deliver planes during WWII and I would guess they found a workaround.

Trish


----- Original Message -----
From: <RonaldS842@aol.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: Piss call


> Hi all-
>
>    I suppose "piss call" has meant different things to different guys in
> different wars. My war was Korea.
>    SP was wake up at oh-three-hundred, but we used Zebra Time in those
days
> so that everyone always knew what time it was, no matter where you were.
Then
> breakfast and briefing. And a shuffling out to the flight line. Another
> routine day at the office.
>    It was still a half hour till dawn and the air was colder than Hell in
> that part of the world before the son comes up. Remember how it used to
nip
> your nose and ears? And the cold heavy mist kind of swerled around and
held
> visibility down. But it lifted fast.
>    It was like a beautiful picture, the line of F-84s as far as you could
see
> in the mist, all facing the asphalt runway.
>    And along side each plane was the pilot taking time to releave himself.
We
> called this the "piss call" and it was routine.
>    Kidneys and bowel were the airmans worst enemy on long missions. I've
> heard stories about aircrews using their helmets to crap in when it was
> necessary. I always wondered about the choice if you were under attack and
> needed to wear the helmet for protection.
>    Well, I suppose things have change but I still wonder, with all the
women
> pilots today, how they would have handled the "piss call".
>
> Ron
>