> The air is usually as dry as the ground in those places.
The ground isn’t all that dry, you can dig a hole, cover it with plastic and get enough water through evaporation/ condensation to hopefully not die of dehydration if you get stranded in the desert.
Something like this would be very helpful for troops in the desert since water is heavy and resupply is very critical to keep up combat readiness. Back when I was a “speed bump in the sand” they drove us out into choke points in the Saudi desert to take out a few Iraqi tanks before they overran us in case of invasion. Assuming we were able to somehow escape contact our mission was to then try to make it to the coast and steal a boat through we probably wouldn’t have had enough water to accomplish the second part. Not even exaggerating a little bit, such is the life of a paratrooper.
The ground isn’t all that dry, you can dig a hole, cover it with plastic and get enough water through evaporation/ condensation to hopefully not die of dehydration if you get stranded in the desert.
Something like this would be very helpful for troops in the desert since water is heavy and resupply is very critical to keep up combat readiness. Back when I was a “speed bump in the sand” they drove us out into choke points in the Saudi desert to take out a few Iraqi tanks before they overran us in case of invasion. Assuming we were able to somehow escape contact our mission was to then try to make it to the coast and steal a boat through we probably wouldn’t have had enough water to accomplish the second part. Not even exaggerating a little bit, such is the life of a paratrooper.