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Regular Joe
 
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| I was out doin the nite Land Nav course last nite and I felt something crawlin on my neck, I swatted it and it was crawlin on my hand next. It was a tick! As soon as I got back, I took a deep bath before going to bed, then I got up this morning for late call, took a shower and later my roomate told me there was a tick in the toilet seat! This may sound like a joke but it isnt? Do I need to take a tick bath or something? I am not going to go to sick call over this. But man! Thanx
   
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Ei Temporis Vita Semper Resumo Sese
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| LOL! Okay... first have a buddy do a tic check on the places you can't see with your own mk.I eyeballs. Remove any offending critters via any combination of techniques. I prefer to dab a little hot sauce on them to loosen their grip a bit before using tweezers to pluck them out of my hide. Make damn certain you get all of the tic... and save it to be tested for Lyme disease. Take all the gear you used out the woods outside for a good shake out to be certain none are lurking... tics can snooze for years until a high concentration of CO2 wakes them up (they are attracted by your exhalations...) Next time you hit the woodline, be certain to use your bugjuice and keep your boots bloused. One trick that works is putting a dollop of that flea & tic stuff for pets on the collar of your BDUs... Oh... and be happy you didn't run afoul of chiggers... they are infinitely worse than tics...
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One way to ward off chiggers is by eating a matchhead before you head out. Hubby said he did it all the time. The sulfer helps them stay away. You still get bitten, but not as much! 
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I used to get eaten up by chiggers all the time when I was a lad in southern Ohio. They leave nasty itchy welts but so far as I know they don't carry Lyme Disease. As for ticks, if you or your buddy find any in your skin, you need to remove it including the mouth part and have it checked to be sure it isn't a Lyme Disease carrier... I usually put a bit of petroleum jelly over the bug to make him let go. (Mazzi likes hot sauce, but any condiment that gets the tick to back out will probably do the trick.) Then I use tweezers to get the bugger out.
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Best way I found to deal with chiggers is to paint clear nail polish over the top of the affected area... kills them in a day or so. Guess you could use colored polish but that'll be a sure way to find yourself the subject of many jokes...
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Let me tell what we were told in Basic at Ft. Jackson, ingest a teaspoon of vinegar each day. Before you rule it out, you don't have to drink it straight off a spoon. Eat a salad with a vinegar based dressing or a vinegar based cole slaw or something else along those lines. Like Mazzi's husbands trick of eating a match head, as you sweat it comes out through your pours and keeps ticks and chiggers off from burrowing into your skin.
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Good ol Ft Campbell tick and chigger heaven! We used to wear flea and tick collars around the uppers of our boots. You probably arn't allowed to do that today though.
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| You can get away with the flea and tick collars if you use them kinda like boot blousing rubbers and roll your trousers down over them.
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