Interactive military museum exhibit invites patrons to poop like the troops
Lessons in tactical crapping
By W. E. Linde
DAYTON, Ohio — A new traveling interactive exhibit at the National Museum of the United States Air Force gives patrons and military history lovers a chance to experience an aspect of military operations rarely mentioned in history books: defecation in austere locations.
“When people normally visit a museum, they usually come to see cool weapons and aircraft and to learn about significant events in American military history,” said Leona Billings, a senior exhibit project manager who, as a retired chief master sergeant, has plenty of first-hand combat deployment experience. “But there’s more to war than fighting. You gotta poop. And most people don’t realize the logistics involved in tactical crapping.”
The exhibit recreates a crude latrine, with no walls or privacy of any kind. Visitors are allowed, even encouraged, to relieve themselves right there in the middle of the museum as they imagine themselves practically sitting in the lap of a comrade-in-arms.
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