I began hearing of cases of trench foot _ toes blackened, skin on the rest of the foot dead white, a putrid smell coming from spongy flesh.
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Our cocky optimism was quickly extinguished when we discovered that modern war had more to do with trench foot and dysentery than with glorious charges and colorful flags.
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Disease epidemics, frostbite, heat stroke, trench foot, insect and wild animal bites are common along with stress disorders and these have sometimes caused more casualties than enemy action.
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Cut to cool gross stuff : Leeches extracted from somebody's arm; feet molded like abstract sculpture by abscesses and bruises and other wonderfully waterlogged effects of jungle trench foot.
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Key to the Lao defeat was the lack of competent staff work to coordinate the operation, the immaturity and carelessness of their troops, as well as a widespread outbreak of trench foot.
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Maintaining relatively static lines from 20 September through 5 November, they took the opportunity to rotate the two squadrons in and out of the line as trench foot took its toll on the soldiers.
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Ross was credited with being the first to find measures to combat " trench foot " and the effects of mustard gas, as well as being the first to use light relays to evacuate the wounded.
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Once a grenade went off near him in a training exercise, and that's it if you don't count trench foot and dysentery, practically standard issue to the 2 million Doughboys who served between 1917 and 1918.
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The significance of disease on this front can be best illustrated by comparing British the number of hospitalizations from disease / injury ( frostbite, trench foot, etc . ) in this theater to the Western Front.
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On 27 May 2014, it was announced that Doyle would referee the 2014 Aviva Premiership final, his first as referee, this was after the first choice Referee Colvin, had fallen ill with a bout of trench foot.
