The toilet paper war: A submariner’s battle against bureaucracy

The toilet paper war: A submariner’s battle against bureaucracy

For most of recorded history, more men have died from disease in some faraway field than from an enemy bullet. “Diseases,” writes historian John A. Haymond, “particularly those of the insect-borne or water-specific types, have been responsible for untold millions of deaths in militaries across the millennia. Ironically, armies ravaged by disease have usually carried the seeds of their destruction with them in the form of poor field sanitation ha…