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I know this question might seem odd to some, but I think it could lead to some interesting conversation.
It's no secret that a lot of things can remind you of different times in your life. One of the strong is smells. From the smell of your mother baking a pie to the smell of fresh clean laundry or even the amazing smell of bacon frying up in the morning; smells can send us back. Some are not as nice as others. For those of us that have deployed; there is a long list of smells that remind us of our time down range. Personally, I remember the indescribable smell of Iraq. The dust, the smoke, the smell of not showering for a few days.
So the question is simple. What smell takes you back there? For me; its the smell of hand sanitizer.
It's no secret that a lot of things can remind you of different times in your life. One of the strong is smells. From the smell of your mother baking a pie to the smell of fresh clean laundry or even the amazing smell of bacon frying up in the morning; smells can send us back. Some are not as nice as others. For those of us that have deployed; there is a long list of smells that remind us of our time down range. Personally, I remember the indescribable smell of Iraq. The dust, the smoke, the smell of not showering for a few days.
So the question is simple. What smell takes you back there? For me; its the smell of hand sanitizer.
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Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) - Afghanistan
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Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) - Afghanistan War on Terror
Posted 7 y ago
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Burnt trash. But not any kind of burnt trash - the special Iraq kind that's mixed with feces and dust. It's hard to describe and it wasn't very strong on the COP, but as soon as you got outside or above the T-walls it was pretty obvious. I've only smelled something similar once since and it instantly brought be back.
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Wood smoke, brings me back to over fifty years ago to that place forever burned in memories of villages,rice paddies and never ending jungle.
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SGT Philip Roncari
SSG Terry Pride - I remember getting off the choppers after an extended operation in the Central Highlands,and we were told to burn our jungle fatigues and head to the showers asap, we were that foul smelling !
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SSgt Terry P.
SGT Philip Roncari - Understand that.boots worn and stinking,clothes stinking and rotting and showers only with the rain most of the time.
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I always liked the smell of breakfast being cooked at the DFAC. Being a plumber having done a lot of sewer jobs deployed... that will take me back to doing a lot of poopy times at the Died whens I smell sewage.
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