Making coffee among easier tasks for cavalry scout

By JACK KELLY

Starbucks won't be serving Cafe Cinanchetti anytime soon, but out in the desert, it tastes pretty good.

There are things soldiers in Apache Troop miss more than coffee - showers, hot food, cold beer. But they miss coffee a lot.

Sgt. Philip Cinanchetti, 32, arrived "in-theater," as they say, with coffee grounds. But he had no way to brew them.

Being a cavalry scout, he did what scouts do. He improvised.

Half an empty Pepsi can, punched with pinholes, hung by a string from a Meals-Ready-to-Eat packet served as his percolator. And he discovered plenty of sources of heat on a Bradley fighting vehicle, especially one that's been sitting in the desert sun.

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