Posted on Apr 7, 2015
What was your best and worst living conditions during a deployment?
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Worst: FOB Hope, Sadr City, Iraq. I was in a port-o-potty for a week after sharing some Iraqi food.
Best: Bagram Airfield Afghanistan. I had my own room about 100 feet away from the building I worked in.
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Worst: FOB Hope, Sadr City, Iraq. I was in a port-o-potty for a week after sharing some Iraqi food.
Best: Bagram Airfield Afghanistan. I had my own room about 100 feet away from the building I worked in.
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Worst: Taif AB, Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield. We were crammed into King Fahd's banquet facilities until the tent city could be constructed to house the surge of personnel. Civil Engineers converted the kitchen into a makeshift open bay shower.
Best: Camp Phoenix, Kabul, Afghanistan. We were housed in B-huts and each had our own room, the DFAC was great, and we had a Green Beans coffee on the Camp.
Best: Camp Phoenix, Kabul, Afghanistan. We were housed in B-huts and each had our own room, the DFAC was great, and we had a Green Beans coffee on the Camp.
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Worst: A perimeter's worth of armpit-deep fighting positions my fellow Airbase Ground Defenders (ABGD) and I spent weeks in, guarding a dry lakebed (Bicycle Lake) out in the nowhereland scrub-desert of NTC in early '83. (Yes sports fans, contrary to popular misconception, even some of us Dirt Airmen have been there.) And not to lapse into maggotism here, but if it hadn't been for the worthless slack-tailed 'battle' I got stuck with there (refusing to take his shifts, not covering his half of the work, snoozing all the time and never allowing me my couple of hours a day, always bawling about missing little mama back home) it might have been a better time.
Best: Cairo West Airbase, Egypt, during Bright Star '85. The pic above shows Yours Truly, then a punk Buck Sgt in Aug 1985, in my "Five Star" accommodations (a cot in a corner of a G.P. Medium Tent) at "CENTAF City", perched (with about 85 other tents) on the desolate sand plains of the "beautiful" eastern Libyan Desert, approx. 30 miles west of Cairo, Egypt. The day this pic was taken it was a "lovely" 130 degrees in the shade.
Best: Cairo West Airbase, Egypt, during Bright Star '85. The pic above shows Yours Truly, then a punk Buck Sgt in Aug 1985, in my "Five Star" accommodations (a cot in a corner of a G.P. Medium Tent) at "CENTAF City", perched (with about 85 other tents) on the desolate sand plains of the "beautiful" eastern Libyan Desert, approx. 30 miles west of Cairo, Egypt. The day this pic was taken it was a "lovely" 130 degrees in the shade.
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