WHEN YOU STUMBLE ACROSS A STORY ABOUT SOLDIERS BREWING ICED TEA IN THE DESERT, SOMEHOW YOU JUST KNOW IT WILL INVOLVE SOMEONE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.

“It tastes like you’re back at home,” said Marine Lance Cpl. Michael C. Hassler, who’s from Lexington, S.C., and currently with the Combat Service Support Operations Center at Camp Fox.

Hassler and fellow Southerner Lance Cpl. Brandon Perry, true to their Southern roots, started making sun-brewed tea in tall water bottles.

“I just made it one day. I made it for myself,” Hassler says. But it was so good he started making it for others.

The tea is made by throwing a few tea bags purchased from the post exchange into bottles of water and leaving them in the sun to work its magic. For those who like it sweetened, sugar from individual sugar packets is added.

The result goes down smooth and sweet.

Indeed it does.

In addition to this being a neat story, I wanted my Sis-in-law (originally from SC, now in the other SC - Southern California) to see it.

The whole story is here.