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Wow .. cost of air conditioning for U.S. troops in MidEast more than NASA budget
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Burningman works on barter. Better bring donuts
Entoptic
Red Power!
damn now I want krispy kreme.
The English didn't do shit. It was the Scots and their non-underwearing ways that kept them cool.
. I thought he was Bi-winning 
Can't believe nobody commented on this. I don't know where to find any more information..
Ogier le Danois
New member
But we saved $2 Billion over 2 years by fucking federal employees out of cost of living increases.
DOD is the worst offender in regard to waste.
Using a government credit card for travel expenses or other official uses is a nightmare because of overly complex rules. Guess who abused cards into the stone age in the 1980s and 1990s: DOD.
Bring the troops home.
DOD is the worst offender in regard to waste.
Using a government credit card for travel expenses or other official uses is a nightmare because of overly complex rules. Guess who abused cards into the stone age in the 1980s and 1990s: DOD.
Bring the troops home.
Why do you support terrorism?
No but I do support preemptive strikes anywhere/anytime. 
FreeRyde
The Curmudgeon
Its alot like a C-130 ERO. All day long. Everyday. Now that its hitting July and August...
My BARF posts are going to get more hostile by the day until I leave this hell hole. Now the fun part is when we actually have to do 130 ERO's.
On the bright side, Im at one of the few places in the AOR where I can get hammmmmmmered drunk, and then go to the pool and stare at boobs, after that go back to my little room and stand infront of the AC nekkkkkkid.
Thanks guys for paying my AC bill!
B-Cuz
Honorably Discharged
Its alot like a C-130 ERO. All day long. Everyday. Now that its hitting July and August...
Now the fun part is when we actually have to do 130 ERO's.
On the bright side, Im at one of the few places in the AOR where I can get hammmmmmmered drunk, and then go to the pool and stare at boobs, after that go back to my little room and stand infront of the AC nekkkkkkid.
Thanks guys for paying my AC bill!
Where you stationed at bro?
While at Ali Al-Salem, Kuwait City Int'l, and Al-Taqqaddum; the only booze I could get my hands on was through mail or trade with the contractors. As far as boobs are concerned, fuckin AF was draggin their feet on the Olympic sized pool they were constructed, finally finished the damn thing as I was leaving.
Although there was one civvy contractor at KCIA who invited my crew to his apartment where he fermented his own wine, damn that shit was INTENSE.
FreeRyde
The Curmudgeon
Right now Im in the Deid. You might say "thats not a deployment" Well it might be a vacation for some, but I work at the port, loading air drop bundles, cargo, MRAP's, Strykers etc etc, and sucking poop out of planes! No we dont get shot at, but FUCK its hot and muggy everyday. But we got it good all things considered, thats for damn sure. But it aint no vacation...
The ratio at all the chow halls of Senior NCO's to E-3 and below is 3:1. So we sadly work till we fall from heat exhaustion... While being watched and told what we are doing wrong. Id rather be getting mortared! frack.
We do have some excellent titties here!
Although the best I've seen are from England.
The ratio at all the chow halls of Senior NCO's to E-3 and below is 3:1. So we sadly work till we fall from heat exhaustion... While being watched and told what we are doing wrong. Id rather be getting mortared! frack.
We do have some excellent titties here!
Although the best I've seen are from England.
titties 
n10sive
Well-known member
What year were you at Al Taq? My son was there in 2004 (during the Fallujah stuff).
B-Cuz
Honorably Discharged
Was there during my trifecta tour of the AO, March to May '05. I'd be willing to bet that the base was on high alert during his time there due to the activity. Same happened to us since the Abu Ghraib had just been hit by an insurgent frontal assault.
n10sive
Well-known member
yeah...it was locked down pretty good. Lot's of people fleeing Fallujah wound up there. He was actually Army, arrived when it was FOB Ridgeway with the 82nd, and stayed TDY to the 1st MEF for a whole year there since he was a radioman. I guess the Marines used different comms than Army command. Was interesting for him to be Army deployed with the grunts
B-Cuz
Honorably Discharged
yeah...it was locked down pretty good. Lot's of people fleeing Fallujah wound up there. He was actually Army, arrived when it was FOB Ridgeway with the 82nd, and stayed TDY to the 1st MEF for a whole year there since he was a radioman. I guess the Marines used different comms than Army command. Was interesting for him to be Army deployed with the grunts
Was this the instance where the 82nd paradropped onto the field to secure? I'm sure your son picked up a lot of a vital information regarding Marines, particularly that the grab ass games can get pretty intense.
n10sive
Well-known member
Was this the instance where the 82nd paradropped onto the field to secure? I'm sure your son picked up a lot of a vital information regarding Marines, particularly that the grab ass games can get pretty intense.
"what happens in Al Taq stays in Al Taq"
He actually did a lot of grappling and got big into Jujitsu while there, courtesy of the Marines.
oh...and cigars (Ratters and weak_link would have liked that place )They actually had an incident when he was there where the insurgents took the Haji's that came to the base and killed them and hung some of their bodies on the wire as a warning to the others. Haircuts and DVD's became harder to come by that year.
Eisernkreuz
unteroffizier
Right now Im in the Deid. You might say "thats not a deployment" Well it might be a vacation for some, but I work at the port, loading air drop bundles, cargo, MRAP's, Strykers etc etc, and sucking poop out of planes! No we dont get shot at, but FUCK its hot and muggy everyday. But we got it good all things considered, thats for damn sure. But it aint no vacation...
The ratio at all the chow halls of Senior NCO's to E-3 and below is 3:1. So we sadly work till we fall from heat exhaustion... While being watched and told what we are doing wrong. Id rather be getting mortared! frack.
We do have some excellent titties here!
I'm in Qatar right now. I don't think this is a deployment. The fact you get full combat pay, benefits (combat zone tax exemption? really?) is a fucking travesty. Just sayin'. But thanks for your service all the same, I know we couldn't do it without all the work done at Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and elsewhere