Hi,
There is nothing like finish the first day of military service with a nice shower washing out the powder the from your eyes, nose, mouth,ears and any other hole in your body…
This powder (we pronunce it Pudra) is basically grounded soil. The AFVs just running over and over the same spot smashing the grains into fine such small practicles that enters deep into your ventilatory system.
You find it usually around treatment centers of AFV (Armoured fighting vehicle) such as: Tanks, Armored D9, APC (Armoured personnel carrier). Or along the roads those vehicles running continously along.
Usually FAV (or heavy machinery) with continues track is causes this effect. Vechiles, heavy as they are, with tires or rubber tracks usually doesn’t cause powder. The steel plates of the continues track combined with the heavy load on it grains the soil into this fine material.
In the engineering corps school base (called Ba’altz) the area were the D9 practices the powder height gets up till your waists! 😱 Those “baths”, as they called, are just an area surrounded with levees where the D9 operators practicing moving and pushing ground around. So They grain the soil just like a flour mill 😃
Take care
Gad
The AVF treatment center
The D9 shed and the soil infront of it
The tanks and the the ground aroud it
Driving on those taken roads
Walking here feels like walking in quicksand
The cloud of dust and powder a tank raises with the sunset at the background
Powder raised in Ze’elim, Israel by a line of APCs